UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
In Win Chrome, go to http://159.65.243.73/compare/2b0c0d01-8ef5-4ed2-89e5-25609b0b84c3

This test page compares two fonts, a static ttf against a variable font. Both fonts and diff images are attached.

What is the expected behavior?
I would expect the variable fonts in this test case to match the static fonts.

We can see there is a cap height jump at 8pt in the image, diff_images/waterfall/gifs/Desktop_Windows_10_chrome_69.0_.gif.

What went wrong?
Win Chrome uses FreeType to render variables fonts, whilst for static fonts, it uses DW. It would be nice to have the appearance of VFs be as close as possible to the static fonts.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 70.0.3538.102  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 10
Flash Version: 

The test case I'm attaching contains the two fonts used in the "Steps to reproduce..." section.

The variable font was built from the static font by inserting an fvar table. I also had to add name table entries for the fvar so it would pass ots-sanitizer.
 

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