Software to validate OTF

Andrea T.

Hello everybody,

which kind of software do you use to validate (and eventually fix) your OTF/TTF files?
Actually i'm interested in your post-production process you use to test and validate and finally obtain a quality files that works fine on any given platform.

Colin M Ford

The Font Validator (originally of Microsoft, though not any more I think) is pretty helpful: https://github.com/HinTak/Font-Validator/releases

As well as the validator that comes with the Font Book on Mac OS (Font Book > File > Validate File...)

The info these will give you are split up by table. To make adjustments FontTools would be helpful: https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools

Dave Crossland

Fontbakery, which wraps hintak fontval, ots, etc

LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland

DTL OTMaster, which wraps everything you need in one tool, etc

Andrea T.

I just tried fontbakery and it's really good. Thank you all for the suggestions.
Anyone of you ever used OTSanitizer?