Modified uppercase letters in the SS14 variant appear to have incorrect height

[slashdevslashurandom]

Another possible hinting issue to investigate: when the SS14 variant is used, certain uppercase letters may appear taller than others.

Here's a GIF displaying the uppercase Latin alphabet with the SS14 variant (above) and without it (below). Red lines have been added at the baseline and cap height. The characters G, J, K, Q and W all happen to go over the cap height in the SS14 variant.

• Your font version: 27.3.5
• Your font variant: Iosevka Term, with SS14 variant enabled
• Your operating system (name and version): Alpine Linux v3.19
• Your application using Iosevka: foot

[be5invis]

Unable to repro... at least with built-in hints.

20ppem

24ppem (which should be your size)

[slashdevslashurandom]

Note: I see the effect when I use the default Iosevka font with the SS14 variant enabled via font options(e.g. the foot terminal being set to font=Iosevka Term:size=16:fontfeatures=ss14), and don't see it if I use a font with the SS14 variant pre-applied (e.g. font=Iosevka Term SS14:size=16).

[be5invis]

@slashdevslashurandom I was testing using that method (normal Iosevka with SS14 applied). If you are using freetype, you can maybe enable the "application hints" instead of autohinting -- which could get better results.

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