googlefonts / googlefonts/fontmake

Tamil: UI font produced by the pipeline fails our UI font criteria

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Description

source: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-source/tree/master/src/NotoSansTamil

font produced by the pipeline: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/blob/master/alpha/from-pipeline/unhinted/otf/sans/NotoSansTamilUI-Regular.otf

font as expected: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/blob/master/alpha/from-glyphsapp/unhinted/otf/sans/NotoSansTamilUI-Regular.otf

Issue: UI font produced by the pipeline fails our UI font criteria (smallest ymin should be -293 but is -321). Some notodiff results (Regular used during notodiff):

![haiivowelsigntamil](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/13322623/23971350/de11b132-098a-11e7-800a-14fa4fc98cfa.png)
![haprehalftamil](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/13322623/23971351/de165e8a-098a-11e7-882d-409b3a2aab0d.png)
![hatamil](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/13322623/23971349/de103f50-098a-11e7-8e05-e3a79660028e.png)

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