#932568 ITP: fontbakery -- Font quality checker

Package:
wnpp
Source:
wnpp
Submitter:
Yao Wei
Date:
2026-02-17 01:31:03 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Blocked By:
Bug Title
1004991

  1

ITP: glyphtools -- Routines for extracting information from font glyphs

wishlist stable testing unstable 7 months ago

1004969

  2

ITP: commandlines -- Python library for command line application development

wishlist stable testing unstable 7 months ago

995384

  1

ITP: python-opentypespec -- Provides OpenType spec dictionaries

wishlist stable testing unstable 7 months ago

995378

  3

ITP: dehinter -- Remove TrueType and OpenType bytecodes and tables from font files

wishlist stable testing unstable 13 days ago

1005076

  1

ITP: sre-yield -- Expands a regular expression to its possible matches

wishlist stable testing unstable 7 months ago

995385

  2

ITP: python-pip-api -- Unofficial API for Python pip

wishlist stable testing unstable 7 months ago

995390

  1

ITP: ufolint -- Source file linter for UFO font source

wishlist stable testing unstable 7 months ago

995389

  1

ITP: python-stringbrewer -- Generate random strings matching a pattern

wishlist stable testing unstable 7 months ago

995375

  1

ITP: python-collidoscope -- Brute force detection of glyph collisions

wishlist stable testing unstable 7 months ago

#932568#5
Date:
2019-07-20 18:04:09 UTC
From:
To:
* Package name    : fontbakery
  Version         : 0.7.9
* URL             : https://github.com/googlefonts/fontbakery
* License         : Apache-2.0
  Programming Lang: Python 3
  Description     : Font quality checker

Fontbakery is a tool to check common issues of fonts for quality
assurance.

I would like to introduce the package for the autopkgtest for fonts, and
this package should be under maintenance of Debian Fonts Task Force.

#932568#10
Date:
2019-07-20 19:13:10 UTC
From:
To:
This seems like a really cool plan :-)  Out of curiosity will it also
detect suboptimal rendering for a font if/when new freetype/fontconfig
versions make changes to how fonts arerendered?  (P.S. sorry that I
don't know if these new font types use libfreetype or something else)

Thanks!
Nicholas

#932568#15
Date:
2019-07-20 19:13:10 UTC
From:
To:
This seems like a really cool plan :-)  Out of curiosity will it also
detect suboptimal rendering for a font if/when new freetype/fontconfig
versions make changes to how fonts arerendered?  (P.S. sorry that I
don't know if these new font types use libfreetype or something else)

Thanks!
Nicholas

#932568#20
Date:
2019-07-22 13:26:44 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

It checks some parameters of a font file, like unit size, weight, and
name etc.  It does not check how it is rendered afaik.

However, if such phenomenon can be recognized as a font parameter, it is
possible that we write a test for such check.

Yao Wei

#932568#25
Date:
2019-07-22 13:26:44 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

It checks some parameters of a font file, like unit size, weight, and
name etc.  It does not check how it is rendered afaik.

However, if such phenomenon can be recognized as a font parameter, it is
possible that we write a test for such check.

Yao Wei

#932568#50
Date:
2022-02-07 01:50:57 UTC
From:
To:
Hello,

My name is Paulo (kretcheu) [1]

I want to help in efforts to put Fontbakery at the Debian archive.

I was working on some dependency packages.

## ITPs

### commandlines
https://bugs.debian.org/1004969
### glyphsets
https://bugs.debian.org/1004942
### glyphtools
https://bugs.debian.org/1004991
### sre-yield
https://bugs.debian.org/1005076

Packaging is not all ready yet, but you can see the state of work at:

## Repos:

https://salsa.debian.org/kretcheu/sre-yield
https://salsa.debian.org/kretcheu/glyphsets
https://salsa.debian.org/kretcheu/glyphtools
https://salsa.debian.org/kretcheu/commandlines

[1] https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=kretcheu%40gmail.com

Thanks
kretcheu
:x

#932568#59
Date:
2026-01-29 11:07:36 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

Are you still working on fontbakery? It's a dependency for
fonts-shantell-sans that im currently packaging. Is it fine if I take over?

I'm in the Debian fonts team and i can maintain it under the team namespace.