Re: [ft] Defective true type font

[George Williams]

On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 21:41, Memory, Richard wrote:
> Is there an easy way to determine whether or not a true type font is
> "defective" or not? 
> 
> I have a custom font that seems to work on my Microsoft windows machine
> (more or less), but the glyphs produced by Freetype are fuzzy and
> unreadable. Other true type fonts don't have the same problem. I'm
> trying to rule out a problem with the font first.
Fuzzy glyphs can be caused by having the contours drawn in the reverse
direction from that required by the standard (counter-clockwise for
external contours rather than clockwise).

There are a number of font validators:
MS Font Validator
otvalid from freetype
fontlint
...
none is perfect