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With certain fonts (e.g., Cabin), I have noticed a difference in the relative positioning of certain accent marks---to the point where sometimes, it seems to me that an adjustment is in order.

Consider, for instance, the circumflex accent (^) in the following MWE:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{cabin}

\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\Huge


\textbf{S^ur}
\vspace*{35pt}


\cabin
With Cabin font: , S^ur
\end{document}

which produces

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QUESTION: How may I adjust the height of the said accent mark so that (in this case) it appears closer to the associated letter? I am retyping an Introduction to a book in which the circumflex accent appears very close to the letter in the French component of the Introduction. Is there a general way to accomplish this height adjustment? Otherwise, is there a way to modify the height of the accent when using the Cabin font? Thank you.

DDS
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    That's a choice by the font designer. – egreg May 26 '22 at 20:31
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    Why aren't you using pre-composed glyphs? With a modern LaTeX engine (like LuaLaTeX) you could write Sûr directly, and the (accented) character in your document would be exactly what the font designer intended. – Ingmar May 26 '22 at 20:32
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    @egreg That I suppose is true; but if you consider, say, the apostrophe: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/250233/cabin-font-doesnt-render-properly-apostrophe/250265#250265 there are method(s) to alter the font designer's prescription. I was hoping to learn of one here from the question I posed. – DDS May 26 '22 at 20:53

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