googlefonts / googlefonts/glyphsLib
Non-WWS compatible fonts: WWS names are not written to instance OTFs
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Description
[InterWWS.zip](https://github.com/googlefonts/glyphsLib/files/9735569/InterWWS.zip)
The glyphs file contains some instances which don't have WWS-compatible names, and are marked as such:
Family Name: Inter
Style Name: Display Bold
WWS Family Name: Inter Display
WWS Style Name: Bold
Building static OTFs with this command, the WWS names are not written to the OTF nametables:
```
fontmake -g Inter-Roman.glyphs -o otf -i
```
They are also not in the instance UFOs generated by glyphsLib.
```
fontmake -g Inter-Roman.glyphs -o ufo -i
```
Contributor guide
Research direction
Reproduce the issue with Inter-Roman.glyphs using the fontmake commands shown for OTF and UFO output. Inspect the generated instance UFOs and OTF nametables for the WWS Family Name and WWS Style Name fields; done means both outputs preserve the marked WWS-compatible names.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100