FONTLINT(1)

💖 FONTLINT(1) — the general commands manual's most underrated girly 💖

okay bestie, sit down, because we're talking about fontlint, a lil program from the General Commands Manual that is literally the vibe check your fonts have been begging for. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

fontlint — check a font 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

fontlint fontfile ...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: fontlint loads a font — or honestly, more than one, it's not picky — and that font can be in any format fontforge(1) can read, which is a lot of formats, no cap. Then it goes through and checks the font for certain common errors. Like a bestie who tells you your contour is wonky before you walk out the door. 💅

The common errors it hunts for are:

• Intersecting contours 😭
• Incorrectly oriented contours 🙈
• Extrema not marked by points 💀

And for PostScript fonts, it checks even more:

• Too many points in a glyph
• Too many hints in a glyph
• Bad glyph name

it's giving font quality control, and honestly? we're obsessed. 🔥

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• None. — that's it. that's the whole section. no flags, no frills, no extra homework. she just does the thing. 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• fontforge(1)

And the HTML version of the fontforge manual lives at:

http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (C) 2007 by George Williams (gww@silcom.com).

okay and for the sign-off moment: this whole page comes to you courtesy of the General Commands Manual, dated 17 August 2007 — yes, she's a 2007 icon and she still ate. 🎀✨💖 go lint your fonts, bestie, they deserve it. 🦋