Baseline moves in variable font

Hi

There seems to be an alignment issue when I hit 30 in the variable axis i’ve set up. When shifting between 0-30 the baseline rises on some characters of a set, but not all. In FontGoggles it doesn’t effect it when text is set horizontally by does when set to vertical. In Illustrator it effects both.

I’ve set the parameters as the below and my metrics is 800 x 800 throughout.

Anyone encountered a solution?

Thanks

(
{
openTypeHheaAscender = 800;
},
{
openTypeHheaDescender = 0;
},
{
openTypeHheaLineGap = 0;
},
{
openTypeOS2Ascender = 800;
},
{
openTypeOS2Descender = 0;
},
{
openTypeOS2LineGap = 0;
},
{
openTypeOS2WinAscent = 800;
},
{
openTypeOS2WinDescent = 0;
},
{
typoAscender = 800;
},
{
typoDescender = 0;
},
{
ascender = 800;
},
{
capHeight = 800;
},
{
xHeight = 400;
},
{
descender = 0;
}
)

illustrator is measuring some letters to determine the position of the first baseline. If that letter changes, the baseline will change, too.

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How would you keep the baseline consistent in illustrator or any other software if its consistent in Glyphs? Is illustrator measuring from the top of the character to the baseline rather than working with the specified matrix, even if thats empty space?