On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM Alexei Podtelezhnikov
<apodt...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Playing with ftmulti I noticed that almost all variable fonts exhibit jumpy 
> heights and advances when varying individual axes, instead of monotonous 
> changes. I could associate this weird behavior with the bytecode hinting. 
> Without it or with autohining, the heights and advances are changing smoothly.

The best way to see this behaviour is
% ftgrid.exe -f6 ~/Fonts/Adobe/SourceSans3VF-Roman.ttf

When you start increasing the weight [F4] the advance line wiggles.

Alexei

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