Circumflex glyphs only exporting first instance for variable font

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Hi, just for fun I was experimenting with exporting my font as a variable font. It works with a weight and width axis, six masters (two widths, three weights). All went (relatively) well, except for some small issues, which I was all able to fix, but one I just don’t know what’s wrong. All glyphs that contain the circumflex component export as my first instance (hair compressed). That means, no matter what weight/width I select, these glyphs always stay the same. All other glyphs show up fine. Hopefully the attached picture explains.

Any ideas as to why this might be occurring? I realise that the Variable export feature is still in beta, but maybe this is one small thing that helps for future releases :slightly_smiling_face:

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It seems to not be able to compute the deltas for those glyphs. Could you send me the file?

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Thanks for the explanation. I sent you the variable .TTF, as the forum doesn’t allow me to share .glyphs files. Would you rather need that?

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I need the .glyphs file. Put it in A .zip. That is allowed.

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Thanks a lot for enabling .glyphs files. What an idiot I am, should have thought of zipping the file in the first place :smile: Here it is.

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The circumflex has an outside self inflection in two masters. Those are removed and this makes it incompatible. The latest cutting edge will at least give an error message.

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That makes sense. Thanks a lot! I really appreciate the help.