fontlint(1)

fontlint1

Check a font

Usage

fontlint fontfile ...

Overview

The program fontlint loads a font (or more than one), which may be in any format fontforge(1) can read, and checks the font for certain common errors
* Intersecting contours
* Incorrectly oriented contours
* Extrema not marked by points
And for PostScript fonts:
* Too many points in a glyph
* Too many hints in a glyph
* Bad glyph name

Options

None.

Releases

Unchanged in 8 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

  1. 5.0–Arch

Author

Copyright (C) 2007 by George Williams ([email protected]).

From fontforge 20251009-5 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.