FONTLINT(1) General Commands Manual FONTLINT(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

**fontlint - check a font**

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**fontlint** *fontfile ...*

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

The program **fontlint** loads a font (or more than one), which may be in any format [*fontforge*(1)](/man/os/fontforge/fontforge.1) can read, and checks the font for certain common errors  
\* Intersecting contours  
\* Incorrectly oriented contours  
\* Extrema not marked by points  
And for PostScript fonts:  
\* Too many points in a glyph  
\* Too many hints in a glyph  
\* Bad glyph name

# [OPTIONS](#OPTIONS)

None.

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**fontforge**(1)](/man/os/fontforge/fontforge.1)

The HTML version of the *fontforge* manual at:  
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

Copyright (C) 2007 by George Williams (gww@silcom.com).

17 August 2007

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Document: fontlint(1) from fontforge 20251009-r5 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge