[Bug]: Lowercase é and è are not symmetric

[ghost]

Edition

Basic (Personal)

What version are you using?

2.011

What type of weights are you using?

Default (non-customized)

Operating system

macOS Sonoma 14.1

Program

No response

Display resolution

No response

What happened?

Hello,

It bothers me that MonoLisa’s lowercase é and è are not symmetric. This is particularly blatant when the 2 characters are found in proximity to each other, inside the same word, which happens relatively often in the French language:

élève
préfères
étagère
phénomène
…

Note that the uppercase É and È are fine.

(See simple screenshot taken in TextEdit.)

[okonet]

Thanks for the report! We will take a look at it soon.

[okonet]

Hmm, it looks correct in the specimen.

[ghost]

On my computer, the specimen on the website looks incorrect. And I tried different browsers.

(See 2 simple screenshots taken in Safari.)

[ghost]

OK, I played around with the specimen. If I specify using the browser inspector:

-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;

the è looks correct. But the other values, such as:

-webkit-font-smoothing: auto;

or:

-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;

look incorrect.

And “auto” is the default value.

(See 2 additional screenshots.)

[MarcusSterz]

That’s weird. As I suspected, it is not just the e but the accent. If we look at the diacritics of i we see the same effect. Still everything looks fine on two browsers on my screen as well. Will look into the file today.

[MarcusSterz]

So the bespoken accent (‘grave’) looks flawless in the Glyphs file (pic below). The source file as well as static or variable TTFs look perfect. Also the grave is only a mirrored component from the acute accent. The problem is likely somewhere else.

However: There is an definitely issue with the rendering of the grave: I see it also in TextEdit, TextMate, Apples Fontbook and FontExplorer (pic shows Apple Fontbook)

I do not see it in Indesign, though (pic with blue letters) or Affinity Publisher.

Edit: Adding that this issue does not appear with 2.010. Also I have not touched the accents for 2.011. This is an interesting problem for the Glyphs Forum ;-)

[MarcusSterz]

Will be solved in the upcoming version.

[bebraw]

If you want to try, the upcoming fix is available in the prerelease version now.

[ghost]

Apparently, the preview release channel isn’t available for Basic users like me. But I will take your word for it, and close this issue.

[bebraw]

Fixed in 2.012 available now.

[ghost]

Indeed, problem fixed in the new version. Thank you very much!