no_mac_entries

Ensure font doesn't have Mac name table entries (platform=1).

no_mac_entries

• Applies to: TTF
• Fontspector can hotfix?: no
• Fontspector can fix sources?: no

Rationale

Mac name table entries are not needed anymore. Even Apple stopped producing name tables with platform 1. Please see for example the following system font:

/System/Library/Fonts/SFCompact.ttf

Also, Dave Opstad, who developed Apple's TrueType specifications, told Olli Meier a couple years ago (as of January/2022) that these entries are outdated and should not be produced anymore.

Proposal

• https://github.com/googlefonts/gftools/issues/469

Profiles

• universal (in section 'Universal Profile Checks')

• googlefonts (in section 'Universal Profile Checks')