Bug in font spacing

True, maybe it’s an issue in the font file itself.

But when testing the font online, it works as expected.

On Google Fonts? I think there’s an issue when the font reaches a certain size. It looks really tight for me in the browser. I haven’t updated my local version in a while, so everything is fine on my end. However, for anyone downloading the font from Google now, it appears much tighter in Figma.

The weird thing is, if I click on the font in a design (created by someone with the updated version installed), it fixes itself and looks fine. I can’t figure out how this could be a Figma issue, but I could be wrong of course.

I have experienced the same thing with DM Sans – working with web projects is OK since the developer just uses the css value for letter spacing. But very frustrating when exporting graphics from Figma directly.
I cannot say what causes this: to me the “feels” like the optical kerning vs the metric set letter spacing are interfering, which value to be used or overwritten. (Sorry for not being able to give you any better feedback).