Stroke Strike!

[pagelayoutt]

My attempt to add a plain nlack 0.8 point stroke border (outline color) to Jost font characters caused unexpected results. What am I doing wrong? Is this a font problem or did I choose the wrong option?

[carl123]

1 hour ago, pagelayoutt said:

Is this a font problem

What font are you using and did you try with another font?

[pagelayoutt]

2 hours ago, carl123 said:

What font are you using and did you try with another font?

Thank you for helping me diagnose the problem! It is indeed a font problem. I paid a font artist on Fiver to add contextual alternate glyphs with hollow sections to a few letters (aeiouy + hnqr) in the Jost font. All letters in the original, unmodified Jost font seem perfectly OK; adding modified glyphs seems to have affected the base letters in a subtle way only visible when I merely thickened the letter outlines.

[lepr]

4 hours ago, pagelayoutt said:

What am I doing wrong? Is this a font problem or did I choose the wrong option?

You've not done/chosen anything wrong in Affinity. A workaround to try is to enclose the text in a Compound then apply the desired stroke and fill to the Compound instead of the text.

[pagelayoutt]

10 hours ago, lepr said:

enclose the text in a Compound

I've never worked with compounds, but I'll give it a try. Thanks!