Aspekta Variable Font woff2 weight 400 does not handle left and right quote glyphs

[scottykaye]

Steps to Reproduce

• Use aspekta variable font at weight 400 on a site
• use left “ and right ” quote marks (in our use case, regular quotes " are updated to left and right quotes by notion and displayed that way on site)
• see that at font size 400 the quotes are a single foot instead of double for only weight 400

Current Behavior

You can see at font weight 300 and 500, left and right quotes are treated as double correctly, but not correctly at 400.

Expected Behavior

Expected for left and right quotes to output correctly as double quotes

Additional Details

Heres a reproduction in codepen. It's possible the URL goes away when we push up a deploy, I will do my best to keep it in sync.

Thanks!

Version

2.0.0

[ivodolenc]

Hi, yes, strange behavior.

It works as expected in desktop apps, so it's probably rendering issue in the woff2 format or in browsers.

Try using Aspekta Variable in ttf format for now, I just tested it and it works ok.

Download Official Aspekta Typeface

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This quick fix works too in the woff2 format:

<!-- set `font-weight` to 401 or 399 -->
<li style="font-weight: 401">
    Font Weight 400: Left quote: “ Right Quote: ”
</li>

[scottykaye]

Hey, thanks for such a quick response!

Leaning toward going with the 401 solution only because the size of the font as woff2 is 29KB vs TTF is 68KB so we get a bit of a performance gain from the woff2.

This should work fine for us. Curious if you think this is something that may be fixed in the future?

[ivodolenc]

Yes, it needs to be fixed in future releases, but as I said, since it works fine in desktop apps and in ttf format, it's most likely a problem in woff2 format.

The mentioned quotes are built from smart components so they should display normal.

[scottykaye]

Thanks so much!

[ivodolenc]

Np, tnx for reporting 👍🏻