Every instance of letter 'e' displaying in wrong weight

[wonderful_Dragonfly0D4D]

I have a weird glitch in a document that uses League Spartan font. My heading paragraph styles are in bold weight but all instances of the letter 'e' are displaying in the wrong weight. This only happens once the style has been changed to Semi-bold or bolder, and only to the latter 'e'. Even more weirdly the 'e's weight changes in the opposite direction, weight-wise. So if I make the heading style bold, the 'e's become normal, if I make the heading style Extra Bold, the 'e's get lighter in weight. It's super weird, and very frustrating! I need to save off and package a final file but the 'e's are not playing!

Would love to hear any iudeas of how to fix this and why it might be happening...

[Uske_S]

Hi, Noko Studio!

A very similar phenomenon has been reported in Photoshop.
Please try the information below, which shows that it was improved by re-installing the OTF version of the font.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/can-t-change-the-weight-of-variable-fonts-af...

[mk-will]

Hi, @wonderful_Dragonfly0D4D ,

please write always what version of the software (here InDesign) is used and what OS and version is used.

And supplementary to the answer of @Uske_S : it is possible that the font cache is causing trouble.

See here Font cache.

Regards

Stephan

[Laubender]

Hi @wonderful_Dragonfly0D4D ,

similar issues are reported with InDesign 2024 and variable fonts.

Could be that new bug. See:

Problem with Variable font weights.
Rag and Bone, Oct 12, 2023
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/problem-with-variable-font-weights/td-p/14153203

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )