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Originally Posted by DNSB
Then there the sheer joy of displaying all the glyphs at various font sizes to check for issues.
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High Logic Font Creator will find all the issues and fix many of them automatically. After that, it's a manual process, but at least it shows you exactly where the problem lies.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I'm not about the fix the problems adding weight can bring.
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One of the issues with not fixing the problems is that font renderers will use more RAM and spend more time drawing. This isn't really an issue on modern desktop computers, but on a device with limited RAM and CPU, it's more likely to cause problems. Also, some of the problems like contours with the wrong direction will cause pedantic renderers to do exactly what the font says to do, which results in filled-in openings in letters. Crossing contours (which happen a lot when adding weight) can often cause a contour to become the wrong direction.
But, if you don't care if the font displays correctly on all renderers, that's fine. For me, though, not fixing the errors in a font is like not using CSS that renders properly on all readers. It's lazy and sloppy.