Something wrong with the font?

[rschiang]

Hi there,
I stumbled upon The League's site and is fascinated with your font work. However, despite of The OFL Sorts Mill Goudy was being displayed nicely in Windows Font Viewer, it can crash applications trying to read its metric information or something. I tried with Wodpad in Windows 7 and caught something interesting in debugger:

// First try
First-chance exception at 0x6f038a92 in wordpad.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x0325ff92.

// Removing OpenType and try with TrueType
First-chance exception at 0x6f038a92 in wordpad.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x02a1ff92.

// Invert TrueType with OpenType, still
First-chance exception at 0x6f038a92 in wordpad.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x0357ff92.

// Remove italic style, regular still crashes.
First-chance exception at 0x6f038a92 in wordpad.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x07d6ff92.

It occurred in both OTF and TTF version. Windows is also generating wrong thumbnails with them (showing their icon as symbol font). I knew that I'd possibly redirect the problems to Microsoft but I'd still like to inform you. Anyway, nice work!

[micahbrich]

Wow that's nuts, I've never heard of anything like that. You might be right, it might be a problem with that application – what happens in other applications? OpenOffice or Word or something else?

[rschiang]

After playing with few applications I had some conclusion:

• Sorts Mill Italic crashes Wordpad. Its regular style will not crash if italic isn't presented, but Wordpad need to be restarted (i.e. crash like the 4th dump and all is well).
• This Problem occurs on Blackout 2AM too. Without 2AM, Sunrise and Midnight is working perfectly.
• (But Blackout will mask over each other and only one of them is reachable under Windows. That's not a big deal though.)

Is there any connection between these two fonts? I know that Windows does not treat some font nicely (ex. CJK font Heisei from Adobe) but this is worth investigating. :)