Some VF fonts are unexpectedly thin at certain weights
As you continuously change the weight of certain Variable fonts, at certain weights they become unexpectedly thinner than at neighboring ones.
Example:
for i in {398..402}; do
pango-view --font "League Mono Variable weight=$i" --text "League Mono Variable weight=$i" &
done
A few examples of fonts showing up too thin:
- League Mono Variable at 400, 901..1000
- Movement at 400
- BPdotsSquares at 300
- TitilliumWeb at 400, 600, 800, 950..1000
- Hepta Slab at 200, 400, 600, 800, 950..1000
- Public Sans VF at 400, 890, 950..1000
I took the screenshots using latest git of freetype2, fontconfig and pango. [Without this recent fix in fontconfig from me, some other insane weights (e.g. 398 in case of League Mono Variable) also show up very thin.]
Edited by Egmont Koblinger