name__char_restrictions

Are there disallowed characters in the NAME table?

name/char_restrictions

• Applies to: TTF
• Fontspector can hotfix?: no
• Fontspector can fix sources?: no

Rationale

The OpenType spec requires a subset of ASCII (any printable characters except "[]{}()<>/%") for POSTSCRIPT_NAME (nameID 6), POSTSCRIPT_CID_NAME (nameID 20), and an even smaller subset ("a-zA-Z0-9") for VARIATIONS_POSTSCRIPT_NAME_PREFIX (nameID 25).

Proposals

• https://github.com/fonttools/fontbakery/issues/1718
• https://github.com/fonttools/fontbakery/issues/1663

Profiles

• universal (in section 'Universal Profile Checks')

• googlefonts (in section 'Universal Profile Checks')