Overlapping artifacts?

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Dan Kreider
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Overlapping artifacts?

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Here's an example of an issue I'm having with a font I designed:

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You can see the slight bumps where the glyphs overlap:

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I'm not sure why it's doing this. In fact, I'm having a hard time replicating it. It doesn't do this in Word, for example. The glyphs themselves are certainly exactly aligned, down to the pixel.

Any idea what this is, and how I can avoid it? Thanks.
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Re: Overlapping artifacts?

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I guess that it may be a side-effect of hinting. Try testing the font after exporting it without hinting.
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Re: Overlapping artifacts?

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Dan Kreider wrote: Sun Aug 22, 2021 8:09 pm I'm not sure why it's doing this. In fact, I'm having a hard time replicating it. It doesn't do this in Word, for example. The glyphs themselves are certainly exactly aligned, down to the pixel.
I might be related to the way the rasterizer displays outlines, so where do you see this behaviour?
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