Open Sans fonts have lost kerning data

[Gerry Iles]

It appears that the woff2 version of the Open Sans font has lost its kerning data.  Going to https://fonts.google.com/ and setting the preview text to Te and the size to maximum clearly shows that no auto-kerning is being done for Open Sans but it is for various other fonts.  Using the TTF version of the font in a desktop program on my PC does auto-kern.

Is there anywhere better to report this issue?

Thanks,

  Gerry

[Dave Crossland]

Hi

On 21 August 2017 at 12:13, Gerry Iles <gerry...@gmail.com> wrote:

It appears that the woff2 version of the Open Sans font has lost its kerning data.  Going to https://fonts.google.com/ and setting the preview text to Te and the size to maximum clearly shows that no auto-kerning is being done for Open Sans but it is for various other fonts.  Using the TTF version of the font in a desktop program on my PC does auto-kern.

Thanks for reporting this :) 

Open Sans has a known bug where the kern table is failing the Chrome/Firefox font sanitizer and is dropped.  

Is there anywhere better to report this issue?

https://github.com/google/fonts/issues is where all font issues are tracked, and there are already quite a lot of open issues regarding this family:

https://github.com/google/fonts/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Az_Open_Sans

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Cheers
Dave

[Gerry Iles]

I have added further information about this bug to the github issue I raised:

https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1162

As far as I can tell, the kern tables in all the TTFs in https://github.com/google/fonts/tree/master/apache/opensans are malformed, they don't appear to be valid as either old style kern tables or new style ones.

Is this font likely to be fixed by the creator or are you wanting someone (e.g. me) to make a pull request with fixed versions of the fonts?

Thanks,

  Gerry