OTFINFO(1)

✨ OTFINFO(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to otfinfo — she lives in section 1 of your General Commands Manual and she is, like, the source of truth for everything your OpenType fonts are keeping in their notes app. 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

otfinfo</puruple> — spill the tea about OpenType fonts. like, report information about them. 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

otfinfo [-sfzpvag] [FILE...]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So here's the vibe: otfinfo reports information about the OpenType font FILEs you name. No FILEs? She'll just read from standard input, nbd, she's flexible like that. 🫶

Everything she finds gets printed to standard output. And if you gave her more than one FILE? Every single line gets prefaced with the relevant FILE so you know which font is which. organization queen. 👑

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

Little heads-up first: with the long options, you only need to type as many characters as it takes to make the option unique. abbreviations? we love her. ✨

🔍 Query options 🔍

• -s, --scripts — Print supported scripts and language systems. Scripts come out one per line with human-readable descriptions, like so:

cyrl            Cyrillic
grek            Greek
latn            Latin
latn.TUR        Latin/Turkish

• -f, --features — Print the GSUB and GPOS features supported by the selected script (peep the --script option down below for that). The scripts get printed one per line with human-readable descriptions. For example:

aalt    Access All Alternates
c2sc    Small Capitals From Capitals
case    Case-Sensitive Forms
cpsp    Capital Spacing
...
zero    Slashed Zero

• -z, --optical-size — Print optical size information. For example:

design size 11 pt, size range (8.4 pt, 13 pt], subfamily ID 11, subfamily name Semibold Italic

• -p, --postscript-name — Print each font's PostScript name. For example:

MinionPro-SemiboldItCapt

• -a, --family — Print each font's family name. For example:

Minion Pro

• -v, --font-version — Print font version information, if available. For example:

OTF 1.013;PS 001.000;Core 1.0.27;makeotf.lib(1.11)

• -i, --info — Print each font's name, version, designer, vendor, copyright, and license information. the full lore drop fr fr. For example:

Family:              Minion Pro
Subfamily:           Regular
Full name:           Minion Pro
PostScript name:     MinionPro-Regular
Version:             OTF 1.011;PS 001.000;Core 1.0.27;makeotf.lib1.3.1
Unique ID:           1.011;ADBE;MinionPro-Regular
Designer:            Robert Slimbach
Vendor URL:          http://www.adobe.com/type/
Trademark:           Minion is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries.
Copyright:           © 2000 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. U.S. Patent Des. 337,604. Other patents pending.
License URL:         http://www.adobe.com/type/legal.html

• -g, --glyphs — Print the name of every glyph in each font, one per line. Every. Single. One. For example:

.notdef
space
exclam
...
ncommaaccent.end
lje.alt

• -u, --unicode — Print each Unicode code point supported by the font, followed by the glyph number representing that code point (and, if present, the name of the corresponding glyph). receipts included. 🧾
• --variable — Print information about a variable font's variation axes, including their names and parameter ranges. For example:

Axis 0:                 wght
Axis 0 name:            Weight
Axis 0 range:           300 800
Axis 0 default:         400
Axis 1:                 wdth
Axis 1 name:            Width
Axis 1 range:           75 100
Axis 1 default:         100
Instance 0 name:        Light
Instance 0 position:    300 100
Instance 1 name:        Regular
Instance 1 position:    400 100

• -t, --tables — Print the size and name of every OpenType table in the font. For example:

       52 BASE
    87723 CFF
     4940 DSIG
    21366 GPOS
  ...

• -T table, --dump-table=table — Print the contents of the font's OpenType table table. yes, the actual contents. she's not shy. 🫣

🧚 Miscellaneous options 🧚

• --script=script[.lang] — Select the script system script and language system lang used to look up features by --features. Examples include "latn" (Latin script), "grek" (Greek script), and "yi.YIC" (Yi script with classic characters). If lang is not specified, otfinfo will use the default language system for that script. Defaults to "latn". 💫
• -V, --verbose — Write progress messages to standard error. she'll narrate. she's a talker.
• -q, --quiet — Do not generate any error messages. silence. peace. serenity. 🤫
• -h, --help — Print usage information and exit. iconic behavior.
• --version — Print the version number and some short non-warranty information and exit. the classic "don't sue me" combo 💀

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• otftotfm(1)
• OpenType Specification, Version 1.4

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

Eddie Kohler (ekohler@gmail.com) — the blueprint, the moment, the legend. 👑

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this one's Version 2.110 of the LCDF Typetools, brought to you by the general commands manual energy. go forth and interrogate some fonts 💅✨🦋