Font rendering issue

[Stephen Oakman]

I'm getting a weird font rendering issue in Affinity Designer 1.9.2 on Windows 10. Using the Coustard google font, it renders the i, j, k, l, p & u in an odd way in Affinity Designer (and Publisher, both with new documents). Have attached a screenshot showing this in Designer and Word as a side by side comparison.

 

[Sean P]

Hi Stephen,
This isn't an issue with our application, but is due to font itself. I've found that both Illustrator and Word also exhibit this problem, but it isn't immediately noticeable until you increase the point size or zoom in. See the attached showing the font at 26point. I would advise contacting the font's creator or Google regarding this.

https://support.google.com/docs/thread/106370956/coustard-font-breaks-on-reopening-document?hl=en
https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/coustard-font-changes-when-expanded-enlarged/m-p/8897079
 

[Stephen Oakman]

Thanks Sean.

Odd - as the screenshot shows the rendering in word being ok the right side at 72pt - hence why I thought it was an issue with Affinity. Thank you for the prompt response and pointers to the source of the issue.

[kenmcd]

11 hours ago, Stephen Oakman said:

I'm getting a weird font rendering issue in Affinity Designer 1.9.2 on Windows 10. Using the Coustard google font, it renders the i, j, k, l, p & u in an odd way in Affinity Designer (and Publisher, both with new documents). Have attached a screenshot showing this in Designer and Word as a side by side comparison.

 

There was an issue posted in the Google Fonts repository which said the Coustard fonts had some contours which are going the wrong direction - so I looked and there were a few, but not on the characters I expected. But just a few wrong directions can affect a whole page (a cascading effect).
As I was looking at the outline drawings I did notice they are a complete mess.
So I decided to look at the original source repository.
In that repository both the TTF and OTF fonts appear to work fine in APub (see image below about TTF fonts).

So the originals are not such a mess, and appear to work properly.
I did notice that Google Fonts had done a "hotfix" because there was a problem installing the TTFs on the Mac.
But that should not affect you on Windows 10.

Here are the fonts:  Coustard.fonts.OTF.and.TTF.from.GitHub.7z

Give those a try and let us know if you have any issues.

[Stephen Oakman]

Awesome! That worked perfectly - thank you