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Fix Raleway (Bug summary)

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Description

**Font Project Git Repo URL:**
https://github.com/googlefonts/Raleway
Concerning Raleway dots, I found this issue : https://github.com/theleagueof/raleway/issues/19, with apparently the sources.

**Bugs reported :**

- [ ] #2629
- [ ] #2630
- [ ] https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/937#issuecomment-443583404
- [ ] https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1370#issuecomment-349174898
- [ ] #1508
- [ ] #2153
- [ ] #2464
- [ ] #2688

## Fontbakery report

Fontbakery version: 0.8.8.dev29+g809e15c6

[1] Family checks

ℹ INFO: Check axis ordering on the STAT table. (com.google.fonts/check/STAT/axis_order)

* ℹ **INFO** From a total of 2 font files, 0 of them (0.00%) lack a STAT table.

And these are the most common STAT axis orderings:
('wght-ital', 2) [code: summary]


[23] Raleway-Italic[wght].ttf
🔥 FAIL: Copyright notices match canonical pattern in fonts (com.google.fonts/check/font_copyright)

* 🔥 **FAIL** Name Table entry: Copyright notices should match a pattern similar to: "Copyright 2019 The Familyname Project Authors (git url)"
But instead we have got:
"Copyright 2010 The Raleway Project Authors (impallari@gmail.com), with Reserved Font Name "Raleway"." [code: bad-notice-format]

🔥 FAIL: Check glyphs do not have components which are themselves components. (com.google.fonts/check/glyf_nested_components)

* 🔥 **FAIL** The following glyphs have components which themselves are component glyphs:
* uni1EAE
* uni1EB0
* uni1EB2
* uni1EB4
* uni1EA4
* uni1EA6
* uni1EA8
* uni1EAA
* uni1EBE
* uni1EC0 and 76 more.

Use -F or --full-lists to disable shortening of long lists. [code: found-nested-components]

🔥 FAIL: Font enables smart dropout control in "prep" table instructions? (com.google.fonts/check/smart_dropout)

* 🔥 **FAIL** The 'prep' table does not contain TrueType instructions enabling smart dropout control. To fix, export the font with autohinting enabled, or run ttfautohint on the font, or run the `gftools fix-nonhinting` script. [code: lacks-smart-dropout]

🔥 FAIL: Name table strings must not contain the string 'Reserved Font Name'. (com.google.fonts/check/name/rfn)

* 🔥 **FAIL** Name table entry ("Copyright 2010 The Raleway Project Authors (impallari@gmail.com), with Reserved Font Name "Raleway".") contains "Reserved Font Name". This is an error except in a few specific rare cases. [code: rfn]

⚠ WARN: Checking OS/2 achVendID. (com.google.fonts/check/vendor_id)

* ⚠ **WARN** OS/2 VendorID value 'NONE' is not yet recognized. If you registered it recently, then it's safe to ignore this warning message. Otherwise, you should set it to your own unique 4 character code, and register it with Microsoft at https://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/vendorlist.aspx
[code: unknown]

⚠ WARN: License URL matches License text on name table? (com.google.fonts/check/name/license_url)

* ⚠ **WARN** Please consider using HTTPS URLs at name table entry [plat=3, enc=1, name=13] [code: http-in-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** Please consider using HTTPS URLs at name table entry [plat=3, enc=1, name=13] [code: http-in-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** Please consider using HTTPS URLs at name table entry [plat=3, enc=1, name=13] [code: http-in-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** Please consider using HTTPS URLs at name table entry [plat=3, enc=1, name=14] [code: http-in-license-info]
* ⚠ **WARN** For now we're still accepting http URLs, but you should consider using https instead.
[code: http]

⚠ WARN: Description strings in the name table must not exceed 200 characters. (com.google.fonts/check/name/description_max_length)

* ⚠ **WARN** A few name table entries with ID=10 (NameID.DESCRIPTION) are longer than 200 characters. Please check whether those entries are copyright notices mistakenly stored in the description string entries by a bug in an old FontLab version. If that's the case, then such copyright notices must be removed from these entries. [code: too-long]

⚠ WARN: Are there caret positions declared for every ligature? (com.google.fonts/check/ligature_carets)

* ⚠ **WARN** This font lacks caret position values for ligature glyphs on its GDEF table. [code: lacks-caret-pos]

⚠ WARN: Is there kerning info for non-ligated sequences? (com.google.fonts/check/kerning_for_non_ligated_sequences)

* ⚠ **WARN** GPOS table lacks kerning info for the following non-ligated sequences:
- f + f
- f + i
- i + f
- f + l
- l + f
- i + l

[code: lacks-kern-info]

⚠ WARN: Ensure Stylistic Sets have description. (com.google.fonts/check/stylisticset_description)

* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss01 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss02 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss03 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss04 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss05 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss06 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss07 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss08 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss09 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss10 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss11 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]

⚠ WARN: Ensure fonts have ScriptLangTags declared on the 'meta' table. (com.google.fonts/check/meta/script_lang_tags)

* ⚠ **WARN** This font file does not have a 'meta' table. [code: lacks-meta-table]

⚠ WARN: Check font contains no unreachable glyphs (com.google.fonts/check/unreachable_glyphs)

* ⚠ **WARN** The following glyphs could not be reached by codepoint or substitution rules:
- dotbelow
- uni0230
- eight.lf
- uni1E8E
- seven.lf
- uni20BA
- uni2010
- six.lf
- uni1E60
- one.lf
- And 18 more.

Use -F or --full-lists to disable shortening of long lists.
[code: unreachable-glyphs]

⚠ WARN: Ensure dotted circle glyph is present and can attach marks. (com.google.fonts/check/dotted_circle)

* ⚠ **WARN** No dotted circle glyph present [code: missing-dotted-circle]

⚠ WARN: Does the font have a DSIG table? (com.google.fonts/check/dsig)

* ⚠ **WARN** This font has a digital signature (DSIG table) which is only required - even if only a placeholder - on old programs like MS Office 2013 in order to work properly.
The current recommendation is to completely remove the DSIG table. [code: found-DSIG]

⚠ WARN: Check glyphs in mark glyph class are non-spacing. (com.google.fonts/check/gdef_spacing_marks)

* ⚠ **WARN** The following spacing glyphs may be in the GDEF mark glyph class by mistake:
descendercy (unencoded), descendercy.case (unencoded), hookcy (unencoded), hookcy.case (unencoded), tailcy (unencoded), tailcy.case (unencoded), verticalbarcy (unencoded) and verticalbarcy.case (unencoded) [code: spacing-mark-glyphs]

ℹ INFO: Show hinting filesize impact. (com.google.fonts/check/hinting_impact)

* ℹ **INFO** Hinting filesize impact:

| | Raleway-Italic[wght].ttf |
|:------------- | ---------------:|
| Dehinted Size | 288.6kb |
| Hinted Size | 311.0kb |
| Increase | 22.4kb |
| Change | 7.8 % |
[code: size-impact]

ℹ INFO: Font has old ttfautohint applied? (com.google.fonts/check/old_ttfautohint)

* ℹ **INFO** Could not detect which version of ttfautohint was used in this font. It is typically specified as a comment in the font version entries of the 'name' table. Such font version strings are currently: ['Version 4.026'] [code: version-not-detected]

ℹ INFO: EPAR table present in font? (com.google.fonts/check/epar)

* ℹ **INFO** EPAR table not present in font. To learn more see https://github.com/googlefonts/fontbakery/issues/818 [code: lacks-EPAR]

ℹ INFO: Is the Grid-fitting and Scan-conversion Procedure ('gasp') table set to optimize rendering? (com.google.fonts/check/gasp)

* ℹ **INFO** These are the ppm ranges declared on the gasp table:

PPM <= 65535:
flag = 0x0F
- Use grid-fitting
- Use grayscale rendering
- Use gridfitting with ClearType symmetric smoothing
- Use smoothing along multiple axes with ClearType®
[code: ranges]

ℹ INFO: Familyname must be unique according to namecheck.fontdata.com (com.google.fonts/check/fontdata_namecheck)

* ℹ **INFO** The family name "Raleway" seems to be already in use.
Please visit http://namecheck.fontdata.com for more info. [code: name-collision]

ℹ INFO: Check for font-v versioning. (com.google.fonts/check/fontv)

* ℹ **INFO** Version string is: "Version 4.026"
The version string must ideally include a git commit hash and either a "dev" or a "release" suffix such as in the example below:
"Version 1.3; git-0d08353-release" [code: bad-format]

ℹ INFO: Font contains all required tables? (com.google.fonts/check/required_tables)

* ℹ **INFO** This font contains the following optional tables:
- cvt
- fpgm
- loca
- prep
- GPOS
- GSUB
- And gasp [code: optional-tables]

ℹ INFO: List all superfamily filepaths (com.google.fonts/check/superfamily/list)

* ℹ **INFO** . [code: family-path]


[23] Raleway[wght].ttf
🔥 FAIL: Copyright notices match canonical pattern in fonts (com.google.fonts/check/font_copyright)

* 🔥 **FAIL** Name Table entry: Copyright notices should match a pattern similar to: "Copyright 2019 The Familyname Project Authors (git url)"
But instead we have got:
"Copyright 2010 The Raleway Project Authors (impallari@gmail.com), with Reserved Font Name "Raleway"." [code: bad-notice-format]

🔥 FAIL: Check glyphs do not have components which are themselves components. (com.google.fonts/check/glyf_nested_components)

* 🔥 **FAIL** The following glyphs have components which themselves are component glyphs:
* uni1EAE
* uni1EB0
* uni1EB2
* uni1EB4
* uni1EA4
* uni1EA6
* uni1EA8
* uni1EAA
* uni1EBE
* uni1EC0 and 81 more.

Use -F or --full-lists to disable shortening of long lists. [code: found-nested-components]

🔥 FAIL: Font enables smart dropout control in "prep" table instructions? (com.google.fonts/check/smart_dropout)

* 🔥 **FAIL** The 'prep' table does not contain TrueType instructions enabling smart dropout control. To fix, export the font with autohinting enabled, or run ttfautohint on the font, or run the `gftools fix-nonhinting` script. [code: lacks-smart-dropout]

🔥 FAIL: Name table strings must not contain the string 'Reserved Font Name'. (com.google.fonts/check/name/rfn)

* 🔥 **FAIL** Name table entry ("Copyright 2010 The Raleway Project Authors (impallari@gmail.com), with Reserved Font Name "Raleway".") contains "Reserved Font Name". This is an error except in a few specific rare cases. [code: rfn]

⚠ WARN: Checking OS/2 achVendID. (com.google.fonts/check/vendor_id)

* ⚠ **WARN** OS/2 VendorID value 'NONE' is not yet recognized. If you registered it recently, then it's safe to ignore this warning message. Otherwise, you should set it to your own unique 4 character code, and register it with Microsoft at https://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/vendorlist.aspx
[code: unknown]

⚠ WARN: License URL matches License text on name table? (com.google.fonts/check/name/license_url)

* ⚠ **WARN** Please consider using HTTPS URLs at name table entry [plat=3, enc=1, name=13] [code: http-in-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** Please consider using HTTPS URLs at name table entry [plat=3, enc=1, name=13] [code: http-in-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** Please consider using HTTPS URLs at name table entry [plat=3, enc=1, name=13] [code: http-in-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** Please consider using HTTPS URLs at name table entry [plat=3, enc=1, name=14] [code: http-in-license-info]
* ⚠ **WARN** For now we're still accepting http URLs, but you should consider using https instead.
[code: http]

⚠ WARN: Description strings in the name table must not exceed 200 characters. (com.google.fonts/check/name/description_max_length)

* ⚠ **WARN** A few name table entries with ID=10 (NameID.DESCRIPTION) are longer than 200 characters. Please check whether those entries are copyright notices mistakenly stored in the description string entries by a bug in an old FontLab version. If that's the case, then such copyright notices must be removed from these entries. [code: too-long]

⚠ WARN: Are there caret positions declared for every ligature? (com.google.fonts/check/ligature_carets)

* ⚠ **WARN** This font lacks caret position values for ligature glyphs on its GDEF table. [code: lacks-caret-pos]

⚠ WARN: Is there kerning info for non-ligated sequences? (com.google.fonts/check/kerning_for_non_ligated_sequences)

* ⚠ **WARN** GPOS table lacks kerning info for the following non-ligated sequences:
- f + f
- f + i
- i + f
- f + l
- l + f
- i + l

[code: lacks-kern-info]

⚠ WARN: Ensure Stylistic Sets have description. (com.google.fonts/check/stylisticset_description)

* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss01 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss02 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss03 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss04 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss05 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss06 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss07 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss08 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss09 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss10 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]
* ⚠ **WARN** The stylistic set ss11 lacks a description string on the 'name' table. [code: missing-description]

⚠ WARN: Ensure fonts have ScriptLangTags declared on the 'meta' table. (com.google.fonts/check/meta/script_lang_tags)

* ⚠ **WARN** This font file does not have a 'meta' table. [code: lacks-meta-table]

⚠ WARN: Check font contains no unreachable glyphs (com.google.fonts/check/unreachable_glyphs)

* ⚠ **WARN** The following glyphs could not be reached by codepoint or substitution rules:
- dotbelow
- uni0510.001
- uni20BD.001
- And verticalbarcy
[code: unreachable-glyphs]

⚠ WARN: Ensure dotted circle glyph is present and can attach marks. (com.google.fonts/check/dotted_circle)

* ⚠ **WARN** No dotted circle glyph present [code: missing-dotted-circle]

⚠ WARN: Does the font have a DSIG table? (com.google.fonts/check/dsig)

* ⚠ **WARN** This font has a digital signature (DSIG table) which is only required - even if only a placeholder - on old programs like MS Office 2013 in order to work properly.
The current recommendation is to completely remove the DSIG table. [code: found-DSIG]

⚠ WARN: Check glyphs in mark glyph class are non-spacing. (com.google.fonts/check/gdef_spacing_marks)

* ⚠ **WARN** The following spacing glyphs may be in the GDEF mark glyph class by mistake:
descendercy (unencoded), descendercy.case (unencoded), hookcy (unencoded), hookcy.case (unencoded), tailcy (unencoded), tailcy.case (unencoded), verticalbarcy (unencoded) and verticalbarcy.case (unencoded) [code: spacing-mark-glyphs]

ℹ INFO: Show hinting filesize impact. (com.google.fonts/check/hinting_impact)

* ℹ **INFO** Hinting filesize impact:

| | Raleway[wght].ttf |
|:------------- | ---------------:|
| Dehinted Size | 283.0kb |
| Hinted Size | 305.0kb |
| Increase | 22.0kb |
| Change | 7.8 % |
[code: size-impact]

ℹ INFO: Font has old ttfautohint applied? (com.google.fonts/check/old_ttfautohint)

* ℹ **INFO** Could not detect which version of ttfautohint was used in this font. It is typically specified as a comment in the font version entries of the 'name' table. Such font version strings are currently: ['Version 4.026'] [code: version-not-detected]

ℹ INFO: EPAR table present in font? (com.google.fonts/check/epar)

* ℹ **INFO** EPAR table not present in font. To learn more see https://github.com/googlefonts/fontbakery/issues/818 [code: lacks-EPAR]

ℹ INFO: Is the Grid-fitting and Scan-conversion Procedure ('gasp') table set to optimize rendering? (com.google.fonts/check/gasp)

* ℹ **INFO** These are the ppm ranges declared on the gasp table:

PPM <= 65535:
flag = 0x0F
- Use grid-fitting
- Use grayscale rendering
- Use gridfitting with ClearType symmetric smoothing
- Use smoothing along multiple axes with ClearType®
[code: ranges]

ℹ INFO: Familyname must be unique according to namecheck.fontdata.com (com.google.fonts/check/fontdata_namecheck)

* ℹ **INFO** The family name "Raleway" seems to be already in use.
Please visit http://namecheck.fontdata.com for more info. [code: name-collision]

ℹ INFO: Check for font-v versioning. (com.google.fonts/check/fontv)

* ℹ **INFO** Version string is: "Version 4.026"
The version string must ideally include a git commit hash and either a "dev" or a "release" suffix such as in the example below:
"Version 1.3; git-0d08353-release" [code: bad-format]

ℹ INFO: Font contains all required tables? (com.google.fonts/check/required_tables)

* ℹ **INFO** This font contains the following optional tables:
- cvt
- fpgm
- loca
- prep
- GPOS
- GSUB
- And gasp [code: optional-tables]

ℹ INFO: List all superfamily filepaths (com.google.fonts/check/superfamily/list)

* ℹ **INFO** . [code: family-path]



### Summary

| 💔 ERROR | 🔥 FAIL | ⚠ WARN | 💤 SKIP | ℹ INFO | 🍞 PASS | 🔎 DEBUG |
|:-----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|
| 0 | 8 | 22 | 208 | 17 | 179 | 0 |
| 0% | 2% | 5% | 48% | 4% | 41% | 0% |

**Note:** The following loglevels were omitted in this report:
* **SKIP**
* **PASS**
* **DEBUG**

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