Interesting possible #Harfbuzz bug affecting kerning of U+0315 to a following superscript modifier. The sequence t̕ᶿ is a unit of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ alphabet.
https://github.com/microsoft/Skeena-Indigenous-Typeface/issues/10#issuecomment-2798958550
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#HarfBuzz 11.0.1 is out with a few but important bug fixes. Please update.
"2025Q1 Fonts Quarterly" is out: what I worked on in font technology (mostly #HarfBuzz) land this past quarter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RUZ0QDwSQVxlz1-pYJdUan7hoRzmoLz2cVmtCHUoqUI/view
Google Docs2025Q1 Fonts Quarterly2025Q1 Fonts Quarterly Optimize all the things / Everybody gets font-funcs March 31, 2025 behdad [Comments welcome on GoogleDocs] Introduction Runtime & memory performance improvements Shaping speedups: AAT and OpenType AAT speedups OpenType speedups Drawing VARC fonts speedups COLRv1 speedups ...
Typesetting a font specimen for a #VariableFont with #TeXLaTeX is one of the last adventures apparently ;)
But I got it working now. luaotfload seems to be buggy, but set to render the fonts with #HarfBuzz it seems to work.
Oh, look! #Harfbuzz just dropped version #11.0.0, and the internet can't handle the excitement! 
Apparently, more "features" are here to make you realize that your font rendering woes have only just begun. 
Remember, folks, more numbers after the dot mean it's definitely better! 
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/releases/tag/11.0.0 #fontRendering #excitement #features #update #HackerNews #ngated
#HarfBuzz 11.0.0 is out with lots of goodies. Among them is integration with the Fontations / Skrifa Rust font library, lots of optimizations, and new APIs: