: Hollow fonts on android I use the typeface "Lobster_1.0_.otf" in my Android application, but the problem is, that some of the letters appear "hollow", with a black&white outline. You can see

@Angie364

I wonder if the font has overlapping contours (left over from an auto-generated bold/outline operation) - that aren't visible on most font renderers because they all go in the same direction, but show up on other renderers that use a different algorithm?

For what it's worth, the filename (Lobster_1.0_.otf) strongly suggests you're using a much older version of that font. The latest according to the website is 1.4 which can be downloaded from here and supposedly is much improved.

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@BetL875

It's hard to tell, but it looks to me like you've taken a regular weight font and used a faux bold (that is, a software-generated bold version of the characters). If that's the case, then the problem lies in how the "bold" is being created rather than in the font itself.

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