Anyone know what these little white shapes are?

[mwenz]

Does this happen with all fonts or just this one? It's really weird that a font would not have a solid outline. I guess it's not impossible I just can't imagine why a font designer would want to do that.

That font is either a variable font (it comes with Windows only as a variable font) or it has had "instances" created form it and the overlaps were never cleaned up.

The overlaps are there in a variable font so that as the font, in an application that supports variable fonts, has the parameters adjusted, the font becomes lighter or heavier, or slanted, etc., which may include each piece being controlled separately stay overlapping.

I suspect Xara product, at least the desktop applications, will never support variable fonts.

[gwpriester]

Thanks Mike.

[ernie-f]

An example how variable fonts are working.



A variable font is a single font that acts as many: all the variations of width and weight, slant, and even italics can be contained in a single, highly efficient and compressible font file.