Typophile

Component Glyph Overlap

msmiths

I’ve recently noticed working in Illustrator that when using a text block from a font that contains components that overlap, eg. Ccedilla … sometimes when zooming in and out briefly you can see that the overlap space between shapes flash’s white, basically ’inverting’ the overlap shape.

Is this just an occurence with overlapping components in Illustrator? Is there a step in the process to merge a component and glyph before or during export?

Either change the curves to post script, or

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