[com.fontwerk/check/style_linking] Should Pass fonts with Platform mac name ID 2 name not italic?

[guidoferreyra]

Observed behaviour

On a font that has properly set fsSelection and macStyle to Italic but the name record 2 for mac platform is not Italic the check raises a FAIL:

MyFont-BookOblique.otf
FAIL :
name ID should be (most likely) 'Italic'.

AFAIK the limitation of ID 2 to be only Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic is only for win platform.

Should the check be more specific here?

fontbakery/Lib/fontbakery/checks/fontwerk.py

Line 257 in 036c8fb

if ttFont["name"].getDebugName(2) not in ("Italic", "Bold Italic"):

cc @ollimeier

[ollimeier]

Thanks @guidoferreyra for the hint, but this is intended. Even though you're right, the real world shows different rules. When eg. Mac and Win name ID is different, it causes other issues like cross platform issues. To be on the save side, we stick to Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic also for Mac entries. This is based on experiences I made over years in Quality Assurance.

cc @fontwerk

[guidoferreyra]

Thanks for the answer.