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Preview of BDF — 5x7 Bitmap Font (digits)
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BDF — 5x7 Bitmap Font (digits)

A hand-written 5×7 BDF bitmap font covering the digits, a colon, and space — the classic X11 bitmap-font format, in plain text. A fixture for testing BDF parsers, bitmap-font converters, and retro/embedded rendering.

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BDF · Bitmap
Preview of OTF — CFF (Cubic) Outlines
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OTF — CFF (Cubic) Outlines

The same design in CFF outlines: cubic Type 2 charstrings with no glyf and no loca. The half of the pair that catches code assuming every OpenType font is TrueType-flavoured. Original typeface, free to use.

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OTF · Outlines
Use case
Conversion testingWeb assets· Paired fixture
Preview of OTF — Colour Font, COLR Layers over CFF Outlines
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OTF — Colour Font, COLR Layers over CFF Outlines

COLR and CPAL over CFF rather than glyf outlines. COLR is outline-agnostic by specification, but plenty of tooling assumes colour fonts are TrueType-flavoured — this is the file that finds out. Original typeface, free to use.

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OTF · Color
Use case
Conversion testingWeb assets· Conversion set
Preview of OTF — Novus Sans Sample
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OTF — Novus Sans Sample

The Novus Sans Sample demonstration typeface as OpenType/CFF outlines — one member of a TTF/OTF/WOFF/WOFF2 conversion set built from scratch with fontTools. Original and free to use; a fixture for testing font loading, subsetting, and conversion.

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OTF · Sans Sample
Use case
Conversion testing· Conversion set
Preview of OTF — Variable Font with CFF2 (cubic) Outlines
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OTF — Variable Font with CFF2 (cubic) Outlines

A variable font whose outlines are CFF2 rather than glyf, so the variation deltas live inside blended charstrings and there is no gvar table at all. The case that breaks tools which assume every variable font is TrueType-flavoured. Original typeface, free to use.

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OTF · Variable Axes
Use case
Conversion testingWeb assets· Conversion set
Preview of OTF — Web Container Source, CFF (Type 2) Outlines
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OTF — Web Container Source, CFF (Type 2) Outlines

The uncompressed CFF (Type 2) source for this container set. Every WOFF and WOFF2 file in the group is packed from exactly these bytes, so a compression comparison is measuring the container and nothing else. Original typeface, free to use.

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OTF · Web Compression
Use case
Conversion testingWeb assets+1· Conversion set
Preview of TTC — Collection of Two Variable Fonts
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TTC — Collection of Two Variable Fonts

A collection whose members are themselves variable fonts, each with its own axis, fvar, gvar and STAT. The case that breaks loaders which handle collections or variations but never both at once. Original typeface, free to use.

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TTC · Collection
Use case
Conversion testingMetadata testing· Conversion set
Preview of TTC — The Same Three Faces with Tables Unshared
ttc
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TTC — The Same Three Faces with Tables Unshared

The same three faces in a collection that stores every table separately, so each face's directory points at its own copy. Identical rendering, a bigger file — the reference that makes the shared-table saving measurable rather than assumed. Original typeface, free to use.

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TTC · Collection
Use case
Conversion testingPerformance testing· Paired fixture
Preview of TTC — Three-Face Collection with Shared Tables
ttc
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TTC — Three-Face Collection with Shared Tables

A TrueType Collection holding three faces of one family with identical tables stored once and referenced by offset from each face's table directory. For testing face-index selection, collection-aware loaders, and extractors that must not assume each face owns its tables. Original typeface, free to use.

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TTC · Collection
Use case
Conversion testingPerformance testing+1· Paired fixture
Preview of TTC — TrueType Collection (2 fonts)
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TTC — TrueType Collection (2 fonts)

A TrueType Collection (.ttc) bundling two fonts — the Novus Mono Sample and Novus Icons — in a single container file. A fixture for testing TTC parsing, font-index selection, and collection-aware loaders.

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TTC · Collection
Preview of TTF — Access All Alternates (aalt)
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TTF — Access All Alternates (aalt)

An aalt feature that aggregates every alternate reachable through the stylistic sets and the small-cap set, which is what a glyph-palette UI reads to offer 'other forms of this character'. For testing alternate-picker panels rather than automatic shaping. Original typeface, free to use.

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TTF · Layout Features
Use case
Conversion testingEditor testing· Conversion set
Preview of TTF — Colour Font with Four Named CPAL Palettes (light/dark)
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TTF — Colour Font with Four Named CPAL Palettes (light/dark)

A colour font carrying four CPAL palettes with name-table labels and palette-type flags, two of them marked usable with a light or a dark background. For testing palette pickers, the CSS font-palette property, and renderers that only ever read palette zero. Original typeface, free to use.

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TTF · Color
Use case
Conversion testingWeb assets+1· Conversion set
Preview of TTF — Colour Font, Apple sbix PNG Strike
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TTF — Colour Font, Apple sbix PNG Strike

An sbix colour font — Apple's embedded-bitmap format, one 128 ppem PNG strike per icon glyph, with vector glyf outlines kept underneath for renderers that ignore sbix. For testing bitmap-strike extraction and the strike-versus-outline decision. Original typeface, free to use.

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TTF · Color · 72
Use case
Conversion testingMetadata testing· Conversion set
Preview of TTF — Colour Font, CBDT/CBLC PNG Strike
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TTF — Colour Font, CBDT/CBLC PNG Strike

A CBDT/CBLC colour font — the embedded-bitmap format Android and Chrome use for colour emoji, here with a 64 ppem 32-bit strike in image format 17. For testing bitmap-strike parsers and the CBDT-versus-sbix branch in a colour-font pipeline. Original typeface, free to use.

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TTF · Color
Use case
Conversion testingMetadata testing· Conversion set
Preview of TTF — Colour Font, COLR v0 Layers with CPAL
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TTF — Colour Font, COLR v0 Layers with CPAL

A COLR version 0 colour font: three Private Use Area icons, each drawn as two layer glyphs that index CPAL palette entries, with ordinary monochrome glyf outlines underneath as the fallback. The baseline colour-font case that every modern browser supports. Original typeface, free to use.

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TTF · Color
Use case
Conversion testingWeb assets· Conversion set
Preview of TTF — Colour Font, COLR v1 Linear and Radial Gradients
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TTF — Colour Font, COLR v1 Linear and Radial Gradients

A COLR version 1 colour font built as a real paint graph: a linear gradient with pad extend, a radial gradient with reflect, a repeating three-stop gradient, and a solid paint with fractional alpha. For testing gradient support, extend-mode handling, and the v1-to-v0 fallback path. Original typeface, free to use.

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TTF · Color
Use case
Conversion testingWeb assets· Conversion set
Preview of TTF — Colour Font, OpenType-SVG Documents
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TTF — Colour Font, OpenType-SVG Documents

An OpenType-SVG colour font: one inline SVG document per icon glyph, each with its own gradient, plus glyf outlines for renderers with no SVG support. For testing the fourth colour-font path and how a rasteriser handles vector colour it has to parse rather than paint. Original typeface, free to use.

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TTF · Color
Use case
Conversion testingWeb assets· Conversion set
Preview of TTF — Composite Glyphs (accents built from components)
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TTF — Composite Glyphs (accents built from components)

Four precomposed accented letters built the way real fonts build them — as composite glyphs referencing a base letter and a combining mark with a translation. For testing component resolution, nested-glyph handling, and subsetters that must keep a component's base glyph alive. Original typeface, free to use.

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TTF · Outlines
Use case
Conversion testingMetadata testing+1· Paired fixture
Preview of TTF — Contextual Alternates (calt)
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TTF — Contextual Alternates (calt)

Contextual alternate substitution that fires on doubled letters: the second letter of aa, ee, oo, nn, ss and tt is replaced by an alternate carrying a visible baseline underscore, so a shaping result can be read straight off the page instead of out of a debug log. calt is on by default, which makes it a good test of whether a renderer applies default features at all. Original typeface, free to use.

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TTF · Layout Features
Use case
Conversion testingEditor testing+1· Conversion set
Preview of TTF — Correct Checksums (integrity reference)
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TTF — Correct Checksums (integrity reference)

The clean control for the checksum pair: a small, valid font whose head.checkSumAdjustment and every table-directory checksum are correct. Diff it against its damaged twin to see exactly which four bytes a validator is complaining about. Original typeface, free to use.

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TTF · Integrity
Use case
Conversion testingError handling+1· Paired fixture
Preview of TTF — Decomposed Glyphs (identical shapes, no components)
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TTF — Decomposed Glyphs (identical shapes, no components)

The same four accented letters flattened into simple glyphs with the mark contours copied in. Rendering is identical to the composite twin; the file size, the subsetting behaviour and the hinting story are not. Original typeface, free to use.

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TTF · Outlines
Use case
Conversion testingMetadata testing· Paired fixture
Preview of TTF — Every OpenType Feature in This Family
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TTF — Every OpenType Feature in This Family

Every feature this family defines in one face — ligatures, kerning, contextual alternates, small caps, three stylistic sets, four figure features, fractions, mark attachment, aalt and locl. The single font to point a feature-discovery UI at. Original typeface, free to use.

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TTF · Layout Features
Use case
Conversion testingEditor testing+1· Paired fixture
Preview of TTF — Figure Sets (lnum, onum, tnum, pnum)
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TTF — Figure Sets (lnum, onum, tnum, pnum)

All four figure features over one digit set: the default is proportional lining, tnum flattens every digit to 620 units for column alignment, pnum restores the proportional widths, and onum drops five digits below the baseline and raises two above the x-height. The measurable case for testing font-variant-numeric. Original typeface, free to use.

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TTF · Layout Features
Use case
Conversion testingEditor testing+1· Conversion set
Preview of TTF — Fractions (frac) with numr and dnom
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TTF — Fractions (frac) with numr and dnom

A real frac implementation as a chaining contextual substitution: the slash becomes a fraction slash, the digit before it becomes a numerator and the digit after becomes a denominator, with numr and dnom also reachable on their own. Coverage is deliberately limited to single-digit fractions, which is stated in the specs so a test can assert the boundary. Original typeface, free to use.

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TTF · Layout Features
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Conversion testingEditor testing· Conversion set