Hi all, Font fallback seems to break face stacking for invisible overlays: This works fine: (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "No prettification: ellispis is highlighed") (erase-buffer) (fundamental-mode) (add-to-invisibility-spec '(outline . t)) (insert "abc!!def!!ghi") (let ((ov (make-overlay 6 9))) (overlay-put ov 'invisible 'outline)) (let ((ov (make-overlay (point-min) (point-max)))) (overlay-put ov 'face 'region)) (pop-to-buffer (current-buffer))) This doesn't work (assuming that ℙ is not in your usual font): (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "No prettification: ellispis is highlighed") (erase-buffer) (fundamental-mode) (add-to-invisibility-spec '(outline . t)) (insert "abcℙℙdefℙℙghi") (let ((ov (make-overlay 6 9))) (overlay-put ov 'invisible 'outline)) (let ((ov (make-overlay (point-min) (point-max)))) (overlay-put ov 'face 'region)) (pop-to-buffer (current-buffer))) I came across this while using prettify-symbols-mode: (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "With prettification to common character: ellispis is highlighed") (erase-buffer) (fundamental-mode) (add-to-invisibility-spec '(outline . t)) (insert "abc!!def!!ghi") (setq prettify-symbols-alist '(("!!" . ?ℙ))) (prettify-symbols-mode) (let ((ov (make-overlay 6 9))) (overlay-put ov 'invisible 'outline)) (let ((ov (make-overlay (point-min) (point-max)))) (overlay-put ov 'face 'region)) (pop-to-buffer (current-buffer))) Cheers, Clément.