Departure board SVG has useless stray points

[davwheat]

See the blue points in the image below.

This results in some rendering artifacts in Firefox

[tphinney]

Ah. OK, that is a bug. We should be hiding the points that need to expand into the Filled shape in the existing contours, precisely because Apple will render a zero-thickness line like what you see there. I can see in my icon source that we failed to do that.

Would I be right to guess you are viewing this on macOS or iOS? Not Windows or Linux.

At 100% fill we have a whole different workaround just to avoid this. We are super familiar with the issue and just in this case forgot that we have to avoid it in a different way at zero Fill. Oops. Rats!

Sorry about that. It will likely be at least a week or two before a fix percolates out to the repo and to the live font being served.

[davwheat]

Ah. OK, that is a bug. We should be hiding the points that need to expand into the Filled shape in the existing contours, precisely because Apple will render a zero-thickness line like what you see there. I can see in my icon source that we failed to do that.

Would I be right to guess you are viewing this on macOS or iOS? Not Windows or Linux.

When I first saw it (which was where I took the browser screenshot) was on the MDI Google Font page in Firefox on Windows.

From later testing (now) it seems to not affect the SVG on any of the browsers or devices I've tested on (I only run Linux and Windows), but does affect Firefox and Chrome's (to a lesser extent) font rendering engines. Whether that's expected from the font I don't know! :)

Firefox Windows:

Chrome Windows:

It's not an issue or blocker for me right now anyway -- I just deleted the points and continued with my day importing it into Android Studio. Thanks for following up so quickly!

[tphinney]

Thanks! We will take care of it. May take a few weeks to percolate out to being public, though.

[tphinney]

Got the fix into the build I checked in half an hour ago, v2.799
If all goes well, it will probably be live some time this month.