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Calling instantiateVariableFont can lead to negative advance widths in hmtx
See original GitHub issueHi!
Calling instantiateVariableFont can introduce negative advance widths in the hmtx table:
We could probably replace line 146 by entry[0] = max(0, entry[0] + width_delta). I can open a PR if you want.
(Carefully crafted fonts shouldn’t trigger this problem, but I’ve got it using a subset font where advance of unused glyphes has been set to 0.)
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you’re right
yes please, thank you
We can backport the fix to mutator as well, I can take a look tomorrow