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Hmmm... I can see what is happening. The `acutecomb` has a width the same as all the other characters. Normally combining marks have no width (and/or they have anchors for...

@jbaublitz Thanks for the info. Not sure how this will work "correctly" for a monospaced font. But, I do now know exactly what I need to do in my proportional...

I found a version of Monospace font by George Williams. And it does have zero width `acutecomb` (and other `comb` marks). But the Cyrillic `і` does not have any anchors,...

@SubhamSatyajeet There is a work-around. The old "smear-bold" only affects fonts with a `usWeightClass` of under 250. For example it would affect ExtraLight (200) and Thin (100). (the correct weights)...

A current version of that PDF is included in the packages here: https://github.com/steinbergmedia/smufl/tags

**Overshoot - Google Fonts Glossary** https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/overshoot **Overshoot (typography) - Wikipedia** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overshoot_%28typography%29 **This Optical Illusion Tricks You Into Thinking That Typeface Letters Are the Same Height** https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/04/tobias-frere-jones-explains-the-optical-illusion-that-tricks-our-brains-into-perceiving-typeface-letters-are-of-equal-height.html Normal practice.

> Is it a deliberate stylistic choice in Fira Code? Yes. You will find overshoot in most fonts. Overshoot above the cap height, and overshoot below the baseline. To appear...

> It's possible that the font has a `DSIG` table? Yes.

`USE_TYPO_METRICS` is a flag in the `fsSelection` field of the `OS/2` table. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/os2#fsselection

On Windows in Word the Bold style is selected using the Bold button. So you do not see Bold listed in the font selection list. This is the same in...