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Wrong weight on alternative `g` glyph #242

Closed linzhiq closed 2 years ago

linzhiq commented 2 years ago

The alternative g.ss01 glyph is always rendered with weight 100 in all weights of the variable roman version. g.ss01 can be triggered on the ASCII g with OpenType features salt or ss01 turned on.

Tested on release v2.0 from this repo and Google Fonts with Figma and another design tool.

SALT

Figma file: https://www.figma.com/file/U9oa7FiqqG1W48pDWXKxEr/'salt'-on-Public-Sans?node-id=0%3A1

kenmcd commented 2 years ago

Google Fonts web fonts do not support salt or ss01 So what I expect would happen is nothing (original g). But what appears to be happening is the alternate g from the default master (Thin). Which is a bit unexpected (???). I tested the desktop variable fonts for both v2.000 and v2.001 and they appear to be fine. salt demo is below:

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linzhiq commented 2 years ago

Ah whoops. Seems like this is a bug with the Google Fonts distribution (which does have salt and ss01) which is still running v 1.006.

Going to close this out in favor of https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/3953.

kenmcd commented 2 years ago

Seems like this is a bug with the Google Fonts distribution (which does have salt and ss01)

Well that is interesting. It is my understanding that only the fonttools sub-setting defaults are available (which do not include those).