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Glyph name not canonical (AGLFN)

Audit code: glyph-name-not-canonical

Definition

The glyph name differs from the canonical Adobe Glyph List for New Fonts name for this codepoint. Renaming keeps downstream tooling (feature substitutions, color emoji lookups, PostScript naming) consistent.

How Patens surfaces this

The Patens audit module checks for glyph-name-not-canonical across five teaching surfaces: the edit-panel inline issue list, the project-wide audit page, the release pre-flight check, the family hub, and the home-page project tile. Every surface shows the same plain-English explanation and links back to this page. This rule is detection-only — there's no automatic fix because the correction is design-dependent (it requires a judgment call about the glyph's intended shape or the font's intended behaviour). The audit message links to the specific glyph or field that needs attention.

Run this check yourself

Patens runs every audit rule live as you draw — including this one. The editor (in private alpha) shows glyph-name-not-canonical firing on real glyphs, or check your own work from the CLI:

npx patens audit your-project.font.json

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