From the course: Learning Type Design
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Test your font files
- [Instructor] Fonts are software, and they need to be tested thoroughly before being released into the wild. Large foundries have teams of people and suites of proprietary testing tools that ensure their releases are not only functioning properly, but that the data in the file is properly formed and won't harm a user's system. What can you do as an independent designer? What tools and services exist to test your font files? Testing for well formed font files is called validation, and your primary validation tool is your font production software. Glyphs app, for instance, performs font validation when it generates fonts, and halts the process to report errors if there are problems with the data. Other production tools like Font Forge also have validation capabilities. Microsoft has a Windows based stand alone font validator to test against their font file standards. The Font Book utility on the Mac has a validator that allows you to test a font before you install it. Just choose…
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