Stephen Nixon

[Builder] sometimes fails at OTFautohint step because it tries to build `||` file

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I’m not really sure what’s happening here, but I’ve run into the same issue intermittently, so I wanted to report it. It only happens occasionally, and tends to sort itself...

This is a comment in https://github.com/googlefonts/gftools/issues/875, but I figure it may be a separate issue. Feel free to close this issue if it really is duplicate, though. That issue, I...

Create "cleaned up" glyphs file? (i.e. apply filters and feature variations)

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Hi Simon, I know you are currently very busy, so I’m hoping you will respond to this later, when you have time. However, I want to get the question down,...

[builder] "assert instance is not None" build problem

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I’m working to set up a builder config for a relatively simple UFO project. I’ve done this before, quite a few times, with different variations, so I’m confused why this...

[builder] `expandFeaturesToInstances` not working

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In https://github.com/googlefonts/gftools/issues/558, it was reported that features weren’t expanding into instances, which meant that feature includes weren’t working. This seems to have been closed by https://github.com/googlefonts/gftools/pull/617. However, I’m now experiencing...

The current link to MCKL’s website is slow to load for me, but if I remove the `www.`, it loads very quickly. So, this edit removes the `www.`.

[opentype/name/match_familyname_fullfont] Unclear rationale, unsure whether fail is warranted

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## Observed behaviour I’m building binary fonts directly from UFO sources, using FontMake. As part of this, ufo2ft will construct NameID 4 from the same UFO info fields that are...

cannot import name 'Checker' from 'shaperglot' [googlefonts.glyphsets.shape_languages]

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## Observed behaviour I’m trying to run the adobe fonts profile. It mostly seems to work well, but the command line output starts with the following error: `/Users/stephennixon/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fontbakery/fonts_profile.py:103: UserWarning: Failed...

[empty_letters] failing with error "TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()"

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## Observed behaviour I’m running FontBakery from a checks profile, which includes Adobe Fonts checks. One of the checks is giving me an error, and I’m not sure why, or...

GFtools builder: more data expected from Designspace source than is strictly needed

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This is one of those issues where I’ve actually already found the problem, and it was solvable on my end. I’m not sure that this is something GFtools should necessarily...