whitespace_widths

Space and non-breaking space have the same width?

whitespace_widths

• Applies to: TTF
• Fontspector can hotfix?: no
• Fontspector can fix sources?: no

Rationale

If the space and nbspace glyphs have different widths, then Google Workspace has problems with the font.

The nbspace is used to replace the space character in multiple situations in documents; such as the space before punctuation in languages that do that. It avoids the punctuation to be separated from the last word and go to next line.

This is automatic substitution by the text editors, not by fonts. It's also used by designers in text composition practice to create nicely shaped paragraphs. If the space and the nbspace are not the same width, it breaks the text composition of documents.

Proposals

• https://github.com/fonttools/fontbakery/issues/3843
• https://github.com/fonttools/fontbakery/issues/4829

Profiles

• universal (in section 'Universal Profile Checks')

• googlefonts (in section 'Universal Profile Checks')