Fontbakery Technical Report

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Summary

💥 ERROR 🔥 FAIL ⚠️ WARN ⏩ SKIP ℹ️ INFO ✅ PASS
1 7 12 40 9 172
1% 4% 6% 21% 5% 88%

Note: The following loglevels were omitted in this report: SKIP, INFO, PASS, DEBUG

Meaning of check results:

If you get ERRORs, please help us improve the tool by reporting them at our issue tracker.

(but other kinds of bug reports and/or feature requests are also always welcome, of course!)

FontBakery version: 0.9.2

Section: Google Fonts

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Checking OS/2 achVendID.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/vendor_id>
⚠️ Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    OS/2 VendorID is 'PYRS', a font editor default. If you registered it recently, then it's safe to ignore this warning message. Otherwise, you should set it to your own unique 4 character code, and register it with Microsoft at https://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/vendorlist.aspx [code: bad]

Check Google Fonts glyph coverage.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/glyph_coverage>
🔥 Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • 🔥 FAIL

    Missing required codepoints:

    - 0x0308 (COMBINING DIAERESIS)
    
    
    - 0x0300 (COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT)
    
    
    - 0x0301 (COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT)
    
    
    - 0x030B (COMBINING DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT)
    
    
    - 0x0304 (COMBINING MACRON)
    
    
    - 0x010A (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH DOT ABOVE)
    
    
    - 0x0120 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G WITH DOT ABOVE)
    
    
    - 0x0126 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H WITH STROKE)
    
    
    - 0x0132 (LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE IJ)
    
    
    - 0x014A (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG)
    
    
    - 0x1E9E (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S)
    
    
    - 0x016C (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH BREVE)
    
    
    - 0x1E82 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH ACUTE)
    
    
    - 0x0174 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH CIRCUMFLEX)
    
    
    - 0x1E84 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH DIAERESIS)
    
    
    - 0x1E80 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH GRAVE)
    
    
    - 0x0176 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH CIRCUMFLEX)
    
    
    - 0x1EF2 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH GRAVE)
    
    
    - 0x010B (LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH DOT ABOVE)
    
    
    - 0x0121 (LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH DOT ABOVE)
    
    
    - 0x0127 (LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH STROKE)
    
    
    - 0x0133 (LATIN SMALL LIGATURE IJ)
    
    
    - 0x0237 (LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J)
    
    
    - 0x014B (LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG)
    
    
    - 0x016D (LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH BREVE)
    
    
    - 0x1E83 (LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH ACUTE)
    
    
    - 0x0175 (LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH CIRCUMFLEX)
    
    
    - 0x1E85 (LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH DIAERESIS)
    
    
    - 0x1E81 (LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH GRAVE)
    
    
    - 0x0177 (LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH CIRCUMFLEX)
    
    
    - 0x1EF3 (LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH GRAVE)
    
    
    - 0x0307 (COMBINING DOT ABOVE)
    
    
    - 0x0302 (COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT)
    
    
    - 0x030C (COMBINING CARON)
    
    
    - 0x0306 (COMBINING BREVE)
    
    
    - 0x030A (COMBINING RING ABOVE)
    
    
    - 0x0303 (COMBINING TILDE)
    
    
    - 0x0312 (COMBINING TURNED COMMA ABOVE)
    
    
    - 0x0326 (COMBINING COMMA BELOW)
    
    
    - 0x0327 (COMBINING CEDILLA)
    
    
    - 0x0328 (COMBINING OGONEK)
    

    [code: missing-codepoints]

Check for codepoints not covered by METADATA subsets.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/metadata/unreachable_subsetting>
⚠️ Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    The following codepoints supported by the font are not covered by any subsets defined in the font's metadata file, and will never be served. You can solve this by either manually adding additional subset declarations to METADATA.pb, or by editing the glyphset definitions.

    • U+02C7 CARON: try adding one of: tifinagh, canadian-aboriginal
    • U+02C9 MODIFIER LETTER MACRON: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+02D8 BREVE: try adding canadian-aboriginal
    • U+02D9 DOT ABOVE: try adding canadian-aboriginal
    • U+02DB OGONEK: try adding canadian-aboriginal
    • U+02DD DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+03C0 GREEK SMALL LETTER PI: try adding greek
    • U+2021 DOUBLE DAGGER: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+2030 PER MILLE SIGN: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+2126 OHM SIGN: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+212E ESTIMATED SYMBOL: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+2202 PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+2206 INCREMENT: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+220F N-ARY PRODUCT: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+2211 N-ARY SUMMATION: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+2219 BULLET OPERATOR: try adding tai-tham
    • U+221A SQUARE ROOT: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+221E INFINITY: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+222B INTEGRAL: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+2248 ALMOST EQUAL TO: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+2260 NOT EQUAL TO: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+2264 LESS-THAN OR EQUAL TO: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+2265 GREATER-THAN OR EQUAL TO: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+25CA LOZENGE: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+F6C3 : not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+FB01 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+FB02 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FL: not included in any glyphset definition

    Or you can add the above codepoints to one of the subsets supported by the font: latin, latin-ext, menu, tamil [code: unreachable-subsetting]

Check license file has good copyright string.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/license/OFL_copyright>
🔥 Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • 🔥 FAIL

    First line in license file is:

    "copyright 2014 the catamaran authors (pria.ravichandran@gmail.com)"

    which does not match the expected format, similar to:

    "Copyright 2022 The Familyname Project Authors (git url)" [code: bad-format]

License URL matches License text on name table?

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/name/license_url>
⚠️ Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    Please consider using HTTPS URLs at name table entry [plat=3, enc=1, name=14] [code: http-in-license-info]

METADATA.pb font.name field contains font name in right format?

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/metadata/valid_name_values>
🔥 Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • 🔥 FAIL

    METADATA.pb font.name field ("Catamaran") does not match correct font name format ("Catamaran Thin"). [code: mismatch]

METADATA.pb: Check URL on copyright string is the same as in repository_url field.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/metadata/consistent_repo_urls>
🔥 Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • 🔥 FAIL

    Value of repository_url field is

    But font copyright string has: https://github.com/VanillaandCream/Catamaran-Tamil [code: mismatch]

Glyphs are similiar to Google Fonts version?

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/production_glyphs_similarity>
⚠️ Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    Following glyphs differ greatly from Google Fonts version: * .notdef * A * AE * Aacute * Abreve * Acircumflex * Adieresis * Agrave * Amacron * Aogonek * Aring * Atilde * B * C * Cacute * Ccaron * Ccedilla * D * Dcaron * Dcroat * Delta * E * Eacute * Ecaron * Ecircumflex * Edieresis * Edotaccent * Egrave * Emacron * Eogonek * Eth * Euro * F * G * Gbreve * Gcommaaccent * H * I * Iacute * Icircumflex * Idieresis * Idotaccent * Igrave * Imacron * Iogonek * J * K * Kcommaaccent * L * Lacute * Lcaron * Lcommaaccent * Lslash * M * N * Nacute * Ncaron * Ncommaaccent * Ntilde * O * OE * Oacute * Ocircumflex * Odieresis * Ograve * Ohm * Ohungarumlaut * Omacron * Oslash * Otilde * P * Q * R * Racute * Rcaron * Rcommaaccent * Ruble * S * Sacute * Scaron * Scedilla * Scommaaccent * T * Tcaron * Tcedilla * Tcommaaccent * Thorn * Turkishlira * U * Uacute * Ucircumflex * Udieresis * Ugrave * Uhungarumlaut * Umacron * Uogonek * Uring * V * W * X * Y * Yacute * Ydieresis * Z * Zacute * Zcaron * Zdotaccent * a * aacute * abreve * acircumflex * adieresis * ae * agrave * amacron * ampersand * aogonek * approxequal * aring * asciicircum * asciitilde * asterisk * at * atilde * b * backslash * bar * braceleft * braceright * bracketleft * bracketright * brokenbar * bullet * bulletmath * c * cacute * caron * caron.case * ccaron * ccedilla * cent * circumflex * circumflex.case * colon * copyright * currency * d * dagger * daggerdbl * dcaron * dcroat * degree * divide * divisionslash * dollar * dotlessi * e * eacute * ecaron * ecircumflex * edieresis * edotaccent * egrave * eight * ellipsis * emacron * emdash * endash * eogonek * equal * estimated * eth * exclam * exclamdown * f * fi * five * fl * florin * four * foursuperior * fraction * g * gbreve * gcommaaccent * germandbls * greater * greaterequal * guillemotleft * guillemotright * h * hungarumlaut * hungarumlaut.case * i * iacute * icircumflex * idieresis * igrave * imacron * infinity * integral * iogonek * j * k * kcommaaccent * l * lacute * lcaron * lcommaaccent * less * lessequal * litre * logicalnot * lozenge * lslash * m * minus * mu * multiply * n * nacute * ncaron * ncommaaccent * nine * notequal * ntilde * numbersign * o * oacute * ocircumflex * odieresis * oe * ograve * ohungarumlaut * omacron * one * onehalf * onequarter * onesuperior * ordfeminine * ordmasculine * oslash * otilde * p * paragraph * parenleft * parenright * partialdiff * percent * perthousand * pi * plus * plusminus * product * q * question * questiondown * quotedbl * quotedblbase * quotedblleft * quotedblright * quoteright * quotesingle * r * racute * radical * rcaron * rcommaaccent * registered * s * sacute * scaron * scedilla * scommaaccent * section * semicolon * seven * six * slash * sterling * summation * t * tcaron * tcedilla * tcommaaccent * thorn * three * threequarters * threesuperior * tm_A * tm_Aa * tm_Ai * tm_Anusvara * tm_Au * tm_AuLengthMark * tm_CU * tm_CUu * tm_Ca * tm_E * tm_Ee * tm_Eight * tm_Enn * tm_Five * tm_Four * tm_Ha * tm_Hundred * tm_I * tm_Ii * tm_Ja * tm_KSsa * tm_KU * tm_KUu * tm_Ka * tm_LU * tm_La * tm_LlU * tm_LlUu * tm_Lla * tm_LllU * tm_LllUu * tm_Llla * tm_MU * tm_MUu * tm_Ma * tm_Maatham * tm_Merpadi * tm_NU * tm_Na * tm_Naal * tm_NgUu * tm_Nga * tm_Nine * tm_NnU * tm_Nna * tm_NnnU * tm_Nnna * tm_NyU * tm_Nya * tm_O * tm_Om * tm_One * tm_Oo * tm_PUu * tm_Pa * tm_Patru * tm_RU * tm_RUu * tm_Ra * tm_RrU * tm_Rra * tm_Rupee * tm_Sa * tm_Seven * tm_Sha * tm_Shree * tm_Six * tm_Ssa * tm_TU * tm_Ta * tm_Ten * tm_Thousand * tm_Three * tm_TtI * tm_TtIi * tm_TtU * tm_TtUu * tm_Tta * tm_Two * tm_U * tm_Uu * tm_VUu * tm_Va * tm_Varavu * tm_Varudam * tm_Visarga * tm_VowelAa * tm_VowelAi * tm_VowelAi.alt * tm_VowelAu * tm_VowelE * tm_VowelEe * tm_VowelI * tm_VowelI.alt1 * tm_VowelI.alt2 * tm_VowelI.alt3 * tm_VowelI.alt4 * tm_VowelIi * tm_VowelO * tm_VowelOo * tm_VowelU * tm_VowelU.alt2 * tm_VowelU.alt3 * tm_VowelUu * tm_VowelUu.alt1 * tm_VowelUu.alt2 * tm_VowelUu.alt3 * tm_YUu * tm_Ya * tm_Zero * trademark * two * twosuperior * u * uacute * ucircumflex * udieresis * ugrave * uhungarumlaut * umacron * underscore * uni200C * uni200D * uogonek * uring * v * w * x * y * yacute * ydieresis * yen * z * zacute * zcaron * zdotaccent and zero

A static fonts directory with at least two fonts must accompany variable fonts

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/repo/vf_has_static_fonts>
⚠️ Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    Please consider adding a subdirectory called "static/" and including in it static font files. [code: missing]

Ensure Stylistic Sets have description.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/stylisticset_description>
⚠️ Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    The stylistic set ss01 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]

  • ⚠️ WARN

    The stylistic set ss02 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]

Ensure fonts have ScriptLangTags declared on the 'meta' table.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/meta/script_lang_tags>
⚠️ Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    This font file does not have a 'meta' table. [code: lacks-meta-table]

Section: Universal

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Ensure indic fonts have the Indian Rupee Sign glyph.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/rupee>
🔥 Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • 🔥 FAIL

    Please add a glyph for Indian Rupee Sign (₹) at codepoint U+20B9. [code: missing-rupee]

Does the font contain a soft hyphen?

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/soft_hyphen>
⚠️ Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    This font has a 'Soft Hyphen' character. [code: softhyphen]

Detect any interpolation issues in the font.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/interpolation_issues>
⚠️ Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    Interpolation issues were found in the font: - Contour 1 start point differs in glyph 'tm_NyU' between location <fontTools.ttLib.ttGlyphSet._TTGlyphSetGlyf object at 0x1075ab4f0> and location <fontTools.ttLib.ttGlyphSet._TTGlyphSetGlyf object at 0x1075856f0>

    - Contour 1 start point differs in glyph 'degree' between location <fontTools.ttLib.ttGlyphSet._TTGlyphSetGlyf object at 0x1075ab4f0> and location <fontTools.ttLib.ttGlyphSet._TTGlyphSetGlyf object at 0x1075856f0>
    
    - Contour 1 start point differs in glyph 'degree' between location <fontTools.ttLib.ttGlyphSet._TTGlyphSetGlyf object at 0x1075ab4f0> and location <fontTools.ttLib.ttGlyphSet._TTGlyphSetGlyf object at 0x1075865f0> [code: interpolation-issues]
    

Check math signs have the same width.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/math_signs_width>
⚠️ Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    The most common width is 322 among a set of 4 math glyphs. The following math glyphs have a different width, though:

    Width = 527: plus

    Width = 497: equal, notequal, divide

    Width = 505: logicalnot

    Width = 492: plusminus

    Width = 470: multiply

    Width = 466: minus

    Width = 502: approxequal [code: width-outliers]

Check accent of Lcaron, dcaron, lcaron, tcaron (derived from com.google.fonts/check/alt_caron)

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/alt_caron:googlefonts>
💥 Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • 💥 ERROR

    Failed with TypeError: cannot unpack non-iterable float object

Section: fontbakery.profiles.dsig

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Does the font have a DSIG table?

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/dsig>
⚠️ Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    This font has a digital signature (DSIG table) which is only required - even if only a placeholder - on old programs like MS Office 2013 in order to work properly. The current recommendation is to completely remove the DSIG table. [code: found-DSIG]

Section: fontbakery.profiles.gdef

⚠️

Check glyphs in mark glyph class are non-spacing.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/gdef_spacing_marks>
⚠️ Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    The following spacing glyphs may be in the GDEF mark glyph class by mistake: acute.case (unencoded), breve.case (unencoded), caron.case (unencoded), circumflex.case (unencoded), dieresis.case (unencoded), dotaccent.case (unencoded), grave.case (unencoded), hungarumlaut.case (unencoded), macron.case (unencoded), ring.case (unencoded) and tilde.case (unencoded) [code: spacing-mark-glyphs]

Section: fontbakery.profiles.fvar

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Validates that when an instance record is included for the default instance, its subfamilyNameID value is set to a name ID whose string is equal to the string of either name ID 2 or 17, and its postScriptNameID value is set to a name ID whose string is equal to the string of name ID 6.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.adobe.fonts/check/varfont/valid_default_instance_nameids>
🔥 Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • 🔥 FAIL

    'Thin' instance has the same coordinates as the default instance; its postscript name should be 'Catamaran-Thin', instead of 'CatamaranRoman-Thin'. [code: invalid-default-instance-postscript-name]

Section: Shaping Checks

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Ensure dotted circle glyph is present and can attach marks.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/dotted_circle>
🔥 Catamaran[wght].ttf
  • 🔥 FAIL

    The following glyphs could not be attached to the dotted circle glyph:

    - tm_Anusvara
    
    - tm_Virama
    
    - tm_VowelIi [code: unattached-dotted-circle-marks]