<![CDATA[Generating variable fonts, outlines mixed up.]]>I made an otherwise working variable font with batch and a designspace file, but the outlines of glyphs got mixed up in the output ttf.
If the source ufo glyph order is Latin-1 + alphabetical, it works. What am I missing?

]]>https://forum.robofont.com/topic/949/generating-variable-fonts-outlines-mixed-upRSS for NodeFri, 10 Jul 2026 08:18:13 GMTMon, 05 Jul 2021 15:05:19 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Generating variable fonts, outlines mixed up. on Mon, 05 Jul 2021 15:05:19 GMT]]>I made an otherwise working variable font with batch and a designspace file, but the outlines of glyphs got mixed up in the output ttf.
If the source ufo glyph order is Latin-1 + alphabetical, it works. What am I missing?

]]>https://forum.robofont.com/post/3679https://forum.robofont.com/post/3679Mon, 05 Jul 2021 15:05:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Generating variable fonts, outlines mixed up. on Mon, 05 Jul 2021 19:29:51 GMT]]>there is a silly thing happening in batch when your source has no space glyph.

This needs to be fixed, but is an edge case cause most ufos have a space glyph.

Hope this resolves your issue.

]]>https://forum.robofont.com/post/3680https://forum.robofont.com/post/3680Mon, 05 Jul 2021 19:29:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Generating variable fonts, outlines mixed up. on Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:28:46 GMT]]>My fonts do have space and it's also named space, which seems important. It also has to be the second glyph after .notdef and some other basic glyphs have to follow a certain order, atleast the ones named according to aglfn... My solution is to see what glyph order the compiler put out from a ttx-file, reorder the sources if needed and generate again. A bit complicated though.

]]>https://forum.robofont.com/post/3681https://forum.robofont.com/post/3681Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:28:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Generating variable fonts, outlines mixed up. on Thu, 08 Jul 2021 09:55:46 GMT]]>yeah that is complicated... I will make an issue an try to reproduce it.

]]>https://forum.robofont.com/post/3682https://forum.robofont.com/post/3682Thu, 08 Jul 2021 09:55:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Generating variable fonts, outlines mixed up. on Fri, 23 Jul 2021 14:51:55 GMT]]>I think I also had a similar problem. When I make a variable font in RF4 + designspace + batch on the BigSur system, all glyphs in the font are mixed with unicodes. The same assembly in RF3 + designspace + batch on the Mojave gives an excellent result. Until I figured out what affects more - the system version or the RF3 / 4 version, but maybe this will help

]]>https://forum.robofont.com/post/3719https://forum.robofont.com/post/3719Fri, 23 Jul 2021 14:51:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Generating variable fonts, outlines mixed up. on Tue, 03 Aug 2021 17:54:44 GMT]]>This seems to be a RF4 problem, not a system version problem.

]]>https://forum.robofont.com/post/3741https://forum.robofont.com/post/3741Tue, 03 Aug 2021 17:54:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Generating variable fonts, outlines mixed up. on Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:52:59 GMT]]>@timotimo I have the same problem. (Big Sur, RF4, Batch, all six source ufos have
space glyph).

The ttf variable works, but the encoding is scrambled.

]]>https://forum.robofont.com/post/3751https://forum.robofont.com/post/3751Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:52:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Generating variable fonts, outlines mixed up. on Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:28:37 GMT]]>a workaround is already made (will be present in the next RF beta and the upcoming RF4.1)
the core of the issue is an FDK bug see https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/afdko/issues/1168

]]>https://forum.robofont.com/post/3752https://forum.robofont.com/post/3752Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:28:37 GMT