fontlint — FontForge 20201107 documentation

# fontlint

A program for checking the validity of fonts

    fontlint fontfile1 ...

fontlint checks a font for certain standard problems

It will notice:

- Any glyphs with intersecting (or self-intersecting) contours.

- Any contours drawn in the wrong orientation

- Any glyphs with a flipped reference

- Missing points at extrema.

For sfd fonts it will also notice:

- Any open contours (more an issue in sfd files than in released fonts)

- Adjacent points too far apart in a glyph

- Unknown glyph referenced in GSUB/GPOS/MATH

For PostScript fonts it will also notice:

- More points in a glyph than allowed by PostScript.

- Too many hints in a glyph.

- Invalid glyph name.

- Missing BlueValues entry in PostScript Private dictionary

- Odd number of elements in either the BlueValues or OtherBlues entries in the PostScript Private dictionary.

- Disordered elements in either the BlueValues or OtherBlues entries in the PostScript Private dictionary.

- Too many elements in either the BlueValues or OtherBlues entries in the PostScript Private dictionary.

- Elements too close in either the BlueValues or OtherBlues entries in the PostScript Private dictionary (must be at least 2*BlueFuzz+1 apart).

- Non-integral elements in either the BlueValues or OtherBlues entries in the PostScript Private dictionary.

- Alignment zone height in either the BlueValues or OtherBlues is too big for the BlueScale in the PostScript Private dictionary.

- Odd number of elements in either the FamilyBlues or FamilyOtherBlues entries in the PostScript Private dictionary.

- Disordered elements in either the FamilyBlues or FamilyOtherBlues entries in the PostScript Private dictionary.

- Too many elements in either the FamilyBlues or FamilyOtherBlues entries in the PostScript Private dictionary.

- Elements too close in either the FamilyBlues or FamilyOtherBlues entries in the PostScript Private dictionary (must be at least 2*BlueFuzz+1 apart).

- Non-integral elements in either the FamilyBlues or FamilyOtherBlues entries in the PostScript Private dictionary.

- Alignment zone height in either the FamilyBlues or FamilyOtherBlues is too big for the BlueScale in the PostScript Private dictionary.

- Bad BlueFuzz entry in PostScript Private dictionary.

- Bad BlueScale entry in PostScript Private dictionary.

- Bad StdHW entry in PostScript Private dictionary.

- Bad StdVW entry in PostScript Private dictionary.

- Bad StemSnapH entry in PostScript Private dictionary.

- Bad StemSnapV entry in PostScript Private dictionary.

- StemSnapH does not contain StdHW value in PostScript Private dictionary.

- StemSnapV does not contain StdVW value in PostScript Private dictionary.

- Bad BlueShift entry in PostScript Private dictionary.

- Bad ‘CFF ‘ table.

For TrueType fonts it will also notice:

- More points in a glyph than specified in ‘maxp’

- More paths in a glyph than specified in ‘maxp’

- More points in a composite glyph than specified in ‘maxp’

- More paths in a composite glyph than specified in ‘maxp’

- Instructions longer than allowed in ‘maxp’

- More references in a glyph than specified in ‘maxp’

- References nested more deeply than specified in ‘maxp’

- Bad ‘glyf’ or ‘loca’ table

In any sfnt (True or OpenType font):

- Bad sfnt table header, bad file/table checksums, overlapping tables, standard tables with incorrect lengths, etc.

- Bad PostScript fontname entry in the ‘name’ table

- Bad ‘hhea’, ‘hmtx’, ‘vhea’ or ‘vmtx’ table

- Bad ‘cmap’ table

- Bad ‘EBDT’, ‘bdat’, ‘EBLC’ or ‘bloc’ (embedded bitmap) table

- Bad Apple GX advanced typography table

- Bad OpenType advanced typography table

- Bad version number in OS/2 table (must be >0, and must be >1 for OT-CFF fonts)

## See Also

fontforge