Ysabeau icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
Ysabeau copied to clipboard

The Variable Fonts’ Vietnamese Accents Look Weird In The Black Master Of Both Fonts And The Italic’s Broken

Open Bronnel721 opened this issue 2 years ago • 8 comments

Screenshot (60) Screenshot (59)

Bronnel721 avatar Oct 07 '22 20:10 Bronnel721

Hi!

I am flabbergasted by the absence of those static fonts from the repo. I fixed that. Thanks for pointing it out! I don't know why the variable fonts look shitty; honestly I have no experience with variable fonts... hopefully the Google Fonts people will know what to do when they ingest the family.

Cheers, Christian

CatharsisFonts avatar Oct 07 '22 21:10 CatharsisFonts

In the new font files it’s fixed, but there’s another issue. In Inkscape, the roman variable fonts are italic for some reason. text236 I'm sorry if this was silly. I’m saying that because I know that you had no experience with variable fonts.

Bronnel721 avatar Feb 05 '23 21:02 Bronnel721

Thanks for catching that! Is it better now?

Exporting VF from Glyphs unfortunately yields the same file name for both styles, so I have to manually rename them. Maybe I made a mistake there.

CatharsisFonts avatar Feb 05 '23 22:02 CatharsisFonts

I have no idea if you did make a mistake, but they are named the same thing. Here’s the roman: Screenshot (110) And here’s the italic: Screenshot (109)

Bronnel721 avatar Feb 05 '23 22:02 Bronnel721

It clearly says Italic in the Slope class and Style name, though... shouldn't that do to distinguish the two?

So are you saying it still doesn't work?

CatharsisFonts avatar Feb 05 '23 22:02 CatharsisFonts

I’m pretty sure it does, but for some reason the two font files have the same look in Inkscape. Edit: I think Inkscape looks at the Style group witch are the same in both styles.

Bronnel721 avatar Feb 05 '23 22:02 Bronnel721

That's weird; «Ysabeau Hairline» isn't even a sensible entry for the Style group of Ysabeau ExtraBlack. I'll ask the Glyphs people.

CatharsisFonts avatar Feb 05 '23 23:02 CatharsisFonts

Also on the Windows Font Viewer, It says that the font name for the variable italic is the same as the roman: Screenshot (113) Screenshot (114) But then again, the static fonts have that too. Something weird is going on. Screenshot (115)

Bronnel721 avatar Feb 06 '23 00:02 Bronnel721