Regards, Brad
I’ve attached an interesting hinting problem seen ‘in the wild’. The
image shows text ⟨ɑ̃ ɛ̃ ẽ ø̃⟩, rendered with Firefox 116.0b5 in font
Noto Sans Regular at zoom levels varying from 100% to 210%. (Although I
can reproduce the problem with ftstring too, as long as I force
auto-hinting). Note that the precomposed character ⟨ẽ⟩ exhibits far
worse hinting than the combining diacritics around it. What’s more, as I
zoom in, the precomposed tilde flips back and forth between rendering as
a horizontal bar and as a tilde — and at the highest zoom level it looks
distinctly different to the combining tilde. Can anyone explain what’s
happening here? I would expect that, if the diacritic is to be hinted as
a horizontal bar, that would occur only at the smallest sizes, and would
equally affect the combining diacritic too.
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