font preview with accents
A typeface can render A, B and C perfectly and still be missing the glyph for ã, ç or õ, simply because the type designer never included those characters in the file. This preview applies the chosen font to a real Portuguese sentence, such as "Ação, preço, relatório, R$ 1.234,56", to expose any coverage gap immediately, before it shows up in production.
This one sentence packs a tilde (ã), a cedilla (ç), four acute accents and the Brazilian number format with a period as thousands separator and a comma as decimal mark, so a single test covers most of what real Portuguese text throws at a font.
Modern variable fonts cover the weight axis continuously, but a static single-weight font that lacks the glyph for ã or ç at 900 drops to the fallback's closest available weight, almost always 400, creating a visible thickness jump inside a single word.
The section mark (§), the masculine ordinal numeral (º) and the copyright symbol (©) sit outside the basic Latin alphabet and are usually the first glyphs missing from decorative or display fonts, forcing a fallback exactly in the characters that show up in legal citations and dates.
Because local fonts depend on the operating system, the user's installation and glyph support. If the main family is missing on the device, the browser uses the fallback and the appearance changes.
Because the browser falls back per character: when the glyph for ã, ç or õ does not exist in the primary font, it searches for that specific code point in the next font in the stack, so only the accented letters change shape while the rest of the word stays in the original font.
Paste real text with a tilde, a cedilla and acute and circumflex accents, like the example "Ação, preço, relatório", and check whether every letter keeps the same weight and visual style; any letter that looks like it came from a different font signals a glyph missing from the original file.
Yes, and the risk is often higher: many free or trial fonts prioritize the accented lowercase alphabet and leave the uppercase version incomplete, so an all-caps heading, such as an H1, is the most likely place to expose a missing glyph.
Yes, because R$ is not a single Unicode code point but two capital letters followed by the generic dollar sign U+0024, so the problem is rarely the glyph itself and almost always the kerning between R, $ and the first digit, a pairing many fonts never bothered to tune.
font-family: Inter, sans-serif;
font-size: 48px;
font-weight: 500;
font-style: normal;
letter-spacing: 0px;Text and family are rendered locally in the browser.