Stephen Nixon

New family check: No styles in a font family (or VF) should have Agrave bounds that exceed hhea.ascent

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## Observed behaviour For a long time, I struggled with https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/issues/308, wherein just a few styles of Recursive were given unexpected default line heights on macOS.  Last week, I...

Is it possible to get the "angled" margin of a glyph in an italic font?

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RoboFont has the very useful glyph attributes `glyph.angledLeftMargin` and `glyph.angledRightMargin` in its API. This is pretty vital when scripting Italic fonts. If I just ask for the basic left/right margin,...

[Builder] Is it possible to fix fonts without changing instances, and/or run more granular fix operations such as fix-gasp only?

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I’m attempting to use the gftools builder to build a font, and the font source has instances that differ from the Google Fonts flavor of instances in two ways, which...

Exterior node lost unexpectedly in RoboFont, AFDKO, and FontMake overlap removal

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**Crosspost from https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/issues/319** I think this may be a booleanOps issue, but I'm not quite sure. If it's not, can you please close this? (Also, if you have an idea...

two usage questions on `--user-wordlist`

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Today is my first time trying out diffenator2. It is AWESOME. Really, it’s so useful. Thank you for making it! I’m currently a little stuck on how to use custom...

Can/should custom/new axes use location names in the STAT table?

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**Describe the issue** The Axis Registrty newly-merged axes Bounce, Informality, and Spacing. I am using these in Shantell Sans. Currently, I have instances at various locations along these axes. Should...

Add '--expand-features-to-instances' arg to fontmake UFO generation

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UFOs can use relative `include` statements to import feature files, which is very helpful in the case of a family that has many UFO sources, but just one feature file...

## Observed behaviour [ital-axis-not-las] check lacks rationale ## Expected behaviour The rationale of `ital-axis-not-last` should provide actual rationale, not simply a failure message. The original issue https://github.com/fonttools/fontbakery/issues/3669 seems to have...

Question: how do I write & run a new profile? Confusion points in quick start guide

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I am experimenting with writing a new custom profile, so I will record parts of the experience here, in hopes to help other people to get through the same thing,...

NameID 1 should only be the same for Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic. Other weights should put their weight name into NameID 1. The designspace `sources/shantell_sans-ital_wght_BNCE_INFM_SPAC--static-simplified.designspace` needs to be...