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Firefox and latest WorkplaceSans font...something's not right!

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Dariusz Piatkowski:

--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on May 28, 2016, 07:38:14 am ---It might be worth trying to uninstall and re-install....

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Yup, just tested that theory out. Un-installed the BOLD font, re-boted, re-installed and re-booted again (just to be on the safe side). Re-enabled my userChrome.css and....back to the "ugly" BOLD font...so for now I'm simply going back to 0.91 release given that BETA7 of FF38 is out and it's probably time to start getting ready for full-time use.

In the end it looks like the 1.01 release BOLD, for whatever reson, is not being recognized as the BOLD font. I did check the registry, all places where wpsu.ttf was showing the new wpsub.ttf showed up as well.

Thanks for the suggestions guys! I'll continue monitor this thread in case any new ideas pop-up...

Alex Taylor:
Actually, I have to stand corrected.  There seems to be a serious problem in the auto-generated hinting in Workplace Sans Bold.  It only manifests on a couple of sizes (mainly 13 & 14 ppm), which happen to be the ones which are overridden by the bitmaps in the bitmapped versions.  It also didn't show up on my usual test setup because those sizes don't get used by Mozilla on my system.

This evidently crept in due to a combination of switching from TypeTool 3 to FontLab Studio 5, and trying to add more intelligent hinting parameters.  It seems to work fine in the regular weight, but the bold weight just gets messed up.  Since I doubt I can fix the hinting, I think I'll simply leave the next releases un-hinted (as older versions, IIRC including 0.91, used to be).

So the font probably is getting loaded, it's just that the hinting is causing badly mangled rendering at those sizes.

Alex Taylor:
Version 1.002 is now available (Hobbes incoming), which hopefully fixes this issue.

Dariusz Piatkowski:
Alex!

Thank you sir...looks great here, both standard and bitmapped.

Now I actually get to see the difference, thumbs-up, I like the changes, looks slightly "wider" and cleaner.

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