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Summary

💥 ERROR ☠ FATAL 🔥 FAIL ⚠️ WARN ⏩ SKIP ℹ️ INFO ✅ PASS
0 0 2 7 97 7 136
0% 0% 1% 3% 39% 3% 55%

Meaning of check results:

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FontBakery version: 0.12.1

Universal Profile Checks

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Check math signs have the same width.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/math_signs_width>
⚠️ NotoSansSyriacEastern[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    The most common width is 572 among a set of 4 math glyphs. The following math glyphs have a different width, though:

    Width = 573: plus, minus, equal

    [code: width-outliers]

Check font contains no unreachable glyphs

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/unreachable_glyphs>
⚠️ NotoSansSyriacEastern[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    The following glyphs could not be reached by codepoint or substitution rules:

    - tildecomb
    
    - uni0304.1
    
    - uni0307.1
    
    - uni0308.1
    
    - uni030A.1
    
    - uni0710.medi.2N
    
    [code: unreachable-glyphs]

Shaping Checks

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Ensure soft_dotted characters lose their dot when combined with marks that replace the dot.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/soft_dotted>
⚠️ NotoSansSyriacEastern[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    The dot of soft dotted characters used in orthographies must disappear in the following strings: i̊ j̃ j̄ j̈ į̀ į́ į̂ į̃ į̄ į̌

    The dot of soft dotted characters should disappear in other cases, for example: ĩ i̇ ĩ̠ i̠̇ i̠̊ ị̃ ị̇ ị̊ ĩ̤ i̤̇ i̤̊ ĩ̥ i̥̇ i̥̊ ĩ̦ i̦̇ i̦̊ ĩ̧ i̧̇ i̧̊

    Your font fully covers the following languages that require the soft-dotted feature: Ijo, Southeast (Latn, 2,471,000 speakers), Igbo (Latn, 27,823,640 speakers), Dutch (Latn, 31,709,104 speakers), Ekpeye (Latn, 226,000 speakers), Ebira (Latn, 2,200,000 speakers), Lithuanian (Latn, 2,357,094 speakers).

    Your font does not cover the following languages that require the soft-dotted feature: Ukrainian (Cyrl, 29,273,587 speakers), Mundani (Latn, 34,000 speakers), Lugbara (Latn, 2,200,000 speakers), Ma’di (Latn, 584,000 speakers), Avokaya (Latn, 100,000 speakers), Basaa (Latn, 332,940 speakers), Dii (Latn, 71,000 speakers), Aghem (Latn, 38,843 speakers), Ngbaka (Latn, 1,020,000 speakers), Mango (Latn, 77,000 speakers), Fur (Latn, 1,230,163 speakers), Zapotec (Latn, 490,000 speakers), Yala (Latn, 200,000 speakers), Kom (Latn, 360,685 speakers), South Central Banda (Latn, 244,000 speakers), Bete-Bendi (Latn, 100,000 speakers), Gulay (Latn, 250,478 speakers), Makaa (Latn, 221,000 speakers), Koonzime (Latn, 40,000 speakers), Kpelle, Guinea (Latn, 622,000 speakers), Southern Kisi (Latn, 360,000 speakers), Bafut (Latn, 158,146 speakers), Nateni (Latn, 100,000 speakers), Mfumte (Latn, 79,000 speakers), Cicipu (Latn, 44,000 speakers), Nzakara (Latn, 50,000 speakers), Belarusian (Cyrl, 10,064,517 speakers), Ejagham (Latn, 120,000 speakers), Dan (Latn, 1,099,244 speakers), Sar (Latn, 500,000 speakers), Navajo (Latn, 166,319 speakers).

    [code: soft-dotted]

Article Checks

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EXPERIMENTAL CHECK - Since 2024/Mar/25
Validate location, size and resolution of article images.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/article/images>
⚠️ NotoSansSyriacEastern[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    Family metadata at fonts/NotoSansSyriacEastern/googlefonts/variable does not have an article.

    [code: lacks-article]

Metadata Checks

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Check for codepoints not covered by METADATA subsets.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/metadata/unreachable_subsetting>
⚠️ NotoSansSyriacEastern[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    The following codepoints supported by the font are not covered by any subsets defined in the font's metadata file, and will never be served. You can solve this by either manually adding additional subset declarations to METADATA.pb, or by editing the glyphset definitions.

    • U+02C7 CARON: try adding one of: tifinagh, yi, canadian-aboriginal
    • U+02C9 MODIFIER LETTER MACRON: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+02D8 BREVE: try adding one of: yi, canadian-aboriginal
    • U+02D9 DOT ABOVE: try adding one of: yi, canadian-aboriginal
    • U+02DB OGONEK: try adding one of: yi, canadian-aboriginal
    • U+02DD DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+0302 COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT: try adding one of: tifinagh, math, cherokee, coptic
    • U+0306 COMBINING BREVE: try adding one of: old-permic, tifinagh
    • U+030B COMBINING DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT: try adding one of: cherokee, osage
    • U+030C COMBINING CARON: try adding one of: cherokee, tai-le
    • U+0326 COMBINING COMMA BELOW: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+0327 COMBINING CEDILLA: not included in any glyphset definition
    • U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK: not included in any glyphset definition

    Or you can add the above codepoints to one of the subsets supported by the font: cyrillic-ext, greek-ext, latin, latin-ext, syriac

    [code: unreachable-subsetting]

Description Checks

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Check for presence of an ARTICLE.en_us.html file

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/description/has_article>
🔥 NotoSansSyriacEastern[wght].ttf
  • 🔥 FAIL

    This is a Noto font but it lacks an ARTICLE.en_us.html file

    [code: missing-article]
  • 🔥 FAIL

    This is a Noto font but it lacks a DESCRIPTION.en_us.html file

    [code: empty-description]

Name table checks

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Combined length of family and style must not exceed 32 characters.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/name/family_and_style_max_length>
🔥 NotoSansSyriacEastern[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    Name ID 6 'NotoSansSyriacEastern-Regular' exceeds 27 characters. This has been found to cause problems with PostScript printers, especially on Mac platforms.

    [code: nameid6-too-long]
  • 🔥 FAIL

    Variable font instance name 'Noto Sans Syriac Eastern ExtraLight' formed by space-separated concatenation of font family name (nameID 1) and instance subfamily nameID 271 exceeds 32 characters.

    This has been found to cause shaping issues for some accented letters in Microsoft Word on Windows 10 and 11.

    [code: instance-too-long]
  • 🔥 FAIL

    Variable font instance name 'Noto Sans Syriac Eastern ExtraLight' formed by space-separated concatenation of font family name (nameID 1) and instance subfamily nameID 271 exceeds 32 characters.

    This has been found to cause shaping issues for some accented letters in Microsoft Word on Windows 10 and 11.

    [code: instance-too-long]
  • 🔥 FAIL

    Variable font instance name 'Noto Sans Syriac Eastern SemiBold' formed by space-separated concatenation of font family name (nameID 1) and instance subfamily nameID 275 exceeds 32 characters.

    This has been found to cause shaping issues for some accented letters in Microsoft Word on Windows 10 and 11.

    [code: instance-too-long]
  • 🔥 FAIL

    Variable font instance name 'Noto Sans Syriac Eastern SemiBold' formed by space-separated concatenation of font family name (nameID 1) and instance subfamily nameID 275 exceeds 32 characters.

    This has been found to cause shaping issues for some accented letters in Microsoft Word on Windows 10 and 11.

    [code: instance-too-long]
  • 🔥 FAIL

    Variable font instance name 'Noto Sans Syriac Eastern ExtraBold' formed by space-separated concatenation of font family name (nameID 1) and instance subfamily nameID 277 exceeds 32 characters.

    This has been found to cause shaping issues for some accented letters in Microsoft Word on Windows 10 and 11.

    [code: instance-too-long]
  • 🔥 FAIL

    Variable font instance name 'Noto Sans Syriac Eastern ExtraBold' formed by space-separated concatenation of font family name (nameID 1) and instance subfamily nameID 277 exceeds 32 characters.

    This has been found to cause shaping issues for some accented letters in Microsoft Word on Windows 10 and 11.

    [code: instance-too-long]

Font File Checks

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Ensure variable fonts include an avar table.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/mandatory_avar_table>
⚠️ NotoSansSyriacEastern[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    This variable font does not have an avar table.

    [code: missing-avar]

Ensure fonts have ScriptLangTags declared on the 'meta' table.

Check ID: <FontBakeryCheck:com.google.fonts/check/meta/script_lang_tags>
⚠️ NotoSansSyriacEastern[wght].ttf
  • ⚠️ WARN

    This font file does not have a 'meta' table.

    [code: lacks-meta-table]