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Originally Posted by nabsltd
In most cases, adding weight creates errors in the curves, like overlaps, handles that aren't in spec, etc. If the font is designed well and uses composition properly, then fixing time isn't usually too bad (you fix the base "a" once and it is fixed in all glyphs that use "a" as part of the composite), but without that, a font with just 300 glyphs can take nearly an hour to fix.
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That was why I used the Charis 7 Medium fonts to add weight to regular and italic. The last time I added weight to a regular font, it took way too much time I could have spent reading to fix the damaged glyphs. The italic variant was no better. Admittedly when I opened the original font files in FontForge, it whinged about issues before I even modified anything. Then there the sheer joy of displaying all the glyphs at various font sizes to check for issues.