Fontbakery Technical Report

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Summary

💥 ERROR 🔥 FAIL ⚠️ WARN ⏩ SKIP ℹ️ INFO ✅ PASS
0 1 12 37 9 182
0% 1% 7% 21% 5% 104%

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>
⚠️ DarkerGrotesque[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    OS/2 VendorID value 'NONE' is not yet recognized. 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: unknown]

Check for codepoints not covered by METADATA subsets.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/metadata/unreachable_subsetting>
⚠️ DarkerGrotesque[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: canadian-aboriginal, tifinagh, yi
    • U+02D8 BREVE: try adding one of: canadian-aboriginal, yi
    • U+02D9 DOT ABOVE: try adding one of: canadian-aboriginal, yi
    • U+02DB OGONEK: try adding one of: canadian-aboriginal, yi
    • U+02DD DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+0302 COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT: try adding one of: cherokee, tifinagh, math, coptic
    • U+0306 COMBINING BREVE: try adding one of: tifinagh, old-permic
    • U+0307 COMBINING DOT ABOVE: try adding one of: canadian-aboriginal, math, tai-le, malayalam, old-permic, coptic, tifinagh, syriac
    • U+030A COMBINING RING ABOVE: try adding syriac
    • U+030B COMBINING DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT: try adding one of: cherokee, osage
    • U+030C COMBINING CARON: try adding one of: tai-le, cherokee
    • U+0312 COMBINING TURNED COMMA ABOVE: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+031B COMBINING HORN: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+0326 COMBINING COMMA BELOW: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+0327 COMBINING CEDILLA: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+2030 PER MILLE SIGN: try adding adlam
    • U+215B VULGAR FRACTION ONE EIGHTH: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+215C VULGAR FRACTION THREE EIGHTHS: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+215D VULGAR FRACTION FIVE EIGHTHS: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+215E VULGAR FRACTION SEVEN EIGHTHS: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+2190 LEFTWARDS ARROW: try adding one of: math, symbols
    • U+2192 RIGHTWARDS ARROW: try adding one of: math, symbols
    • U+2194 LEFT RIGHT ARROW: try adding one of: math, symbols
    • U+2195 UP DOWN ARROW: try adding one of: math, symbols
    • U+2196 NORTH WEST ARROW: try adding one of: math, symbols
    • U+2197 NORTH EAST ARROW: try adding one of: math, symbols
    • U+2198 SOUTH EAST ARROW: try adding one of: math, symbols
    • U+2199 SOUTH WEST ARROW: try adding one of: math, symbols
    • U+21A9 LEFTWARDS ARROW WITH HOOK: try adding math
    • U+21B5 DOWNWARDS ARROW WITH CORNER LEFTWARDS: try adding math
    • U+2260 NOT EQUAL TO: try adding math
    • U+240D SYMBOL FOR CARRIAGE RETURN: try adding symbols

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

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

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

    METADATA.pb font.name field ("Darker Grotesque") does not match correct font name format ("Darker Grotesque Light"). [code: mismatch]

Glyphs are similiar to Google Fonts version?

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/production_glyphs_similarity>
⚠️ DarkerGrotesque[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 * Cdotaccent * D * Dcaron * Dcroat * E * Eacute * Ecaron * Ecircumflex * Edieresis * Edotaccent * Egrave * Emacron * Eng * Eogonek * Eth * Euro * F * G * Gbreve * Gdotaccent * H * Hbar * I * I.ss01 * IJ * Iacute * Icircumflex * Idieresis * Idotaccent * Igrave * Imacron * Iogonek * Itilde * J * K * L * Lacute * Lcaron * Lslash * M * N * N_o.dlig * Nacute * Ncaron * Ntilde * O * OE * Oacute * Ocircumflex * Odieresis * Ograve * Ohorn * Ohungarumlaut * Omacron * Oslash * Otilde * P * Q * R * Racute * Rcaron * S * Sacute * Scaron * Scedilla * T * Tbar * Tcaron * Thorn * U * Uacute * Ubreve * Ucircumflex * Udieresis * Ugrave * Uhorn * Uhungarumlaut * Umacron * Uogonek * Uring * Utilde * V * W * Wacute * Wcircumflex * Wdieresis * Wgrave * X * Y * Yacute * Ycircumflex * Ydieresis * Ygrave * Z * Zacute * Zcaron * Zdotaccent * a * a.ss01 * aacute * aacute.ss01 * abreve * abreve.ss01 * acircumflex * acircumflex.ss01 * adieresis * adieresis.ss01 * ae * agrave * agrave.ss01 * amacron * amacron.ss01 * ampersand * aogonek * aogonek.ss01 * aring * aring.ss01 * arrowboth * arrowdown * arrowleft * arrowright * arrowup * arrowupdn * asterisk * at * atilde * atilde.ss01 * b * backslash * bar * braceleft * braceleft.case * braceright * braceright.case * bracketleft * bracketleft.case * bracketright * bracketright.case * brokenbar * c * cacute * ccaron * ccedilla * cdotaccent * cent * colon_parenleft.dlig * colon_parenright.dlig * copyright * d * dcaron * dcroat * dollar * dotlessi * e * eacute * ecaron * ecircumflex * edieresis * edotaccent * egrave * eight * emacron * eng * eogonek * equal * eth * exclam * exclamdown * f * f.ss01 * f_f.dlig * f_i.dlig * f_t.dlig * five * fiveeighths * four * g * g.ss01 * gbreve * gbreve.ss01 * gdotaccent * gdotaccent.ss01 * germandbls * guillemotleft * guillemotright * h * hbar * hyphen_greater.dlig * i * i.loclTRK * iacute * icircumflex * idieresis * igrave * ij * imacron * iogonek * itilde * j * k * l * lacute * lcaron * lcaron.ss01 * less_hyphen.dlig * less_three.dlig * lslash * m * n * nacute * ncaron * nine * notequal * notequal.case * ntilde * numbersign * o * oacute * ocircumflex * odieresis * oe * ograve * ohorn * ohungarumlaut * omacron * one * oneeighth * onehalf * onequarter * ordfeminine * ordmasculine * oslash * otilde * p * paragraph * parenleft * parenleft.case * parenleft_greater.dlig * parenright * parenright.case * percent * perthousand * q * question * questiondown * r * racute * rcaron * s * sacute * scaron * scedilla * seven * seveneighths * six * slash * sterling * t * t_t.dlig * tbar * tcaron * thorn * three * threeeighths * threequarters * two * u * uacute * ubreve * ucircumflex * udieresis * ugrave * uhorn * uhungarumlaut * umacron * uni00B5 * uni0122 * uni0123 * uni0123.ss01 * uni0136 * uni0137 * uni013B * uni013C * uni0145 * uni0146 * uni0156 * uni0157 * uni0162 * uni0163 * uni0218 * uni0219 * uni021A * uni021B * uni0237 * uni1E9E * uni1EA0 * uni1EA1 * uni1EA1.ss01 * uni1EA2 * uni1EA3 * uni1EA3.ss01 * uni1EA4 * uni1EA5 * uni1EA5.ss01 * uni1EA6 * uni1EA7 * uni1EA7.ss01 * uni1EA8 * uni1EA9 * uni1EA9.ss01 * uni1EAA * uni1EAB * uni1EAB.ss01 * uni1EAC * uni1EAD * uni1EAD.ss01 * uni1EAE * uni1EAF * uni1EAF.ss01 * uni1EB0 * uni1EB1 * uni1EB1.ss01 * uni1EB2 * uni1EB3 * uni1EB3.ss01 * uni1EB4 * uni1EB5 * uni1EB5.ss01 * uni1EB6 * uni1EB7 * uni1EB7.ss01 * uni1EB8 * uni1EB9 * uni1EBA * uni1EBB * uni1EBC * uni1EBD * uni1EBE * uni1EBF * uni1EC0 * uni1EC1 * uni1EC2 * uni1EC3 * uni1EC4 * uni1EC5 * uni1EC6 * uni1EC7 * uni1EC8 * uni1EC9 * uni1ECA * uni1ECB * uni1ECC * uni1ECD * uni1ECE * uni1ECF * uni1ED0 * uni1ED1 * uni1ED2 * uni1ED3 * uni1ED4 * uni1ED5 * uni1ED6 * uni1ED7 * uni1ED8 * uni1ED9 * uni1EDA * uni1EDB * uni1EDC * uni1EDD * uni1EDE * uni1EDF * uni1EE0 * uni1EE1 * uni1EE2 * uni1EE3 * uni1EE4 * uni1EE5 * uni1EE6 * uni1EE7 * uni1EE8 * uni1EE9 * uni1EEA * uni1EEB * uni1EEC * uni1EED * uni1EEE * uni1EEF * uni1EF0 * uni1EF1 * uni1EF4 * uni1EF5 * uni1EF6 * uni1EF7 * uni1EF8 * uni1EF9 * uni2196 * uni2197 * uni2198 * uni2199 * uni2215 * uogonek * uring * utilde * v * w * w_w_w.liga * wacute * wcircumflex * wdieresis * wgrave * x * y * yacute * ycircumflex * ydieresis * yen * ygrave * z * zacute * zcaron * zdotaccent and zero

Is there kerning info for non-ligated sequences?

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

    GPOS table lacks kerning info for the following non-ligated sequences:

    - w + w [code: lacks-kern-info]
    

Combined length of family and style must not exceed 27 characters.

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

    The combined length of family and style exceeds 27 chars in the following 'WINDOWS' entries: FONT_FAMILY_NAME = 'Darker Grotesque Light' / SUBFAMILY_NAME = 'Regular'

    Please take a look at the conversation at https://github.com/fonttools/fontbakery/issues/2179 in order to understand the reasoning behind these name table records max-length criteria. [code: too-long]

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>
⚠️ DarkerGrotesque[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

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

METADATA.pb: Designers are listed correctly on the Google Fonts catalog?

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

    It seems that Gabriel Lam is still not listed on the designers catalog. Please submit a photo and a link to a webpage where people can learn more about the work of this designer/typefoundry. [code: profile-not-found]

  • ⚠️ WARN

    It seems that ViệtAnh Nguyễn is still not listed on the designers catalog. Please submit a photo and a link to a webpage where people can learn more about the work of this designer/typefoundry. [code: profile-not-found]

Ensure variable fonts include an avar table.

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

    This variable font does not have an avar table. [code: missing-avar]

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

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

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

Section: Universal

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Check font contains no unreachable glyphs

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

    The following glyphs could not be reached by codepoint or substitution rules:

    - CR.001
    
    - CR.002
    
    - four.sups
    
    - one.sups
    
    - three.sups
    
    - two.sups
    

    [code: unreachable-glyphs]

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>
⚠️ DarkerGrotesque[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    No dotted circle glyph present [code: missing-dotted-circle]

Ensure soft_dotted characters lose their dot when combined with marks that replace the dot.

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

    The dot of soft dotted characters should disappear in other cases, for example: ĭ̦ i̦̇ i̦̊ i̦̋ ǐ̦ i̦̒ j̦̀ j̦́ ĵ̦ j̦̃ j̦̄ j̦̆ j̦̇ j̦̈ j̦̉ j̦̊ j̦̋ ǰ̦ j̦̒ į̦̀

    Your font fully covers the following languages that require the soft-dotted feature: Igbo (Latn, 27,823,640 speakers), Dutch (Latn, 31,709,104 speakers), Lithuanian (Latn, 2,357,094 speakers), Ebira (Latn, 2,200,000 speakers).

    Your font does not cover the following languages that require the soft-dotted feature: Aghem (Latn, 38,843 speakers), Ma’di (Latn, 584,000 speakers), Basaa (Latn, 332,940 speakers), Avokaya (Latn, 100,000 speakers), Nateni (Latn, 100,000 speakers), Ukrainian (Cyrl, 29,273,587 speakers), Lugbara (Latn, 2,200,000 speakers), Ejagham (Latn, 120,000 speakers), Belarusian (Cyrl, 10,064,517 speakers), Kom (Latn, 360,685 speakers), Navajo (Latn, 166,319 speakers), Koonzime (Latn, 40,000 speakers), Dan (Latn, 1,099,244 speakers). [code: soft-dotted]