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[com.google.fonts/check/outline_direction] Contradictory wording #4743

Closed jenskutilek closed 1 month ago

jenskutilek commented 1 month ago

In the changelog, the check is summarized as "Check that outermost contours of glyphs have a clockwise direction".

The rationale of the check says "In TrueType fonts, the outermost contour of a glyph should be oriented counter-clockwise".

When I run the check, it gives me a WARN e.g. "O (U+004F) has a counter-clockwise outer contour" when actually the outer contour of O is clockwise.

This is all very confusing. The contour is clockwise as it should be.

jenskutilek commented 1 month ago

The WARN on my font probably resulted from a bug that was fixed in #4719; with the current dev version, the check passes. So I think it's just the wording in the rationale that is wrong.

felipesanches commented 1 month ago

thanks!