Exported font spacing/ligatures break in CapCut – Glyphs issue or app limitation?

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Hi everyone,

I’m running into a weird issue after exporting a font from Glyphs and using it in capcut mac.

Inside Glyphs, everything looks correct — spacing, kerning, and ligatures all behave as expected. The font exports fine (OTF), installs without issues, and works normally in other design apps, but when I use the same font in capcut for video text:

  • Kerning looks inconsistent (some pairs are too tight/loose)

  • Certain ligatures don’t render at all

  • Line spacing feels off compared to what I set

I’m not using anything too experimental, just standard kerning + a few common ligatures.

So I’m trying to figure out where the problem is:

  • Is this something related to how Glyphs exports features?

  • Or does capcut have limited OpenType/kerning support?

Has anyone tested fonts exported from Glyphs in video editors like this? Any specific export settings I should check?

Thanks!

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Did you try some other fonts if the kerning or OpenType works?

I don’t know anything about capcut. but video apps don’t have the best reputation about kerning and OpenType.

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Thanks! I tested with a couple of system fonts (like Helvetica), and they behave a bit better, but kerning/ligatures still aren’t fully consistent in CapCut.

So I’m guessing it’s more of a CapCut limitation—but just to be sure, are there any export settings in Glyphs I should tweak for better compatibility with apps that have limited OpenType support?

Trying to find a safe export setup for this kind of use case

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You can try to write to their support and ask for information about their font support.

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It means alot, Thank you. I’ll check it with them.