General

General font info settings. Most of the more specific values in other parts of the Font Info get defaults from these settings:

Identification

Option Default Description
Family Name None The font's family name. Required
Style Name None The font's style name. Required
Style Map Family Name Preferred Family Name followed by Preferred Subfamily Name Family name used for bold, italic and bold italic style mapping.
Style Map Style Regular The style map style. The possible values are Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic.
Version Major 0 Major version.
Version Minor 0 Minor version.

 

Dimensions

Option Default Description
Units Per Em 1000 Units per em.
Descender -250 Descender value. This must be 0 or a negative number.
x-height 500 x-height value.
Cap-height 750 Cap height value.
Ascender 750 Ascender value.
Italic Angle 0 Italic angle.

 

Legal

Option Default Description
Copyright Not set Copyright statement. Corresponds to the OpenType name table name ID 0.
Trademark Not set Trademark statement. Corresponds to the OpenType name table name ID 7.
License Not set License text. Corresponds to the OpenType name table name ID 13.
License URL Not set URL for the license. Corresponds to the OpenType name table name ID 14.

 

Parties

Option Default Description
Designer Not set Designer name. Corresponds to the OpenType name table name ID 9.
Designer URL Not set URL for the designer. Corresponds to the OpenType name table name ID 12.
Manufacturer Not set Manufacturer name. Corresponds to the OpenType name table name ID 8.
Manufacturer URL Not set Manufacturer URL. Corresponds to the OpenType name table name ID 11.

 

Note

Option Default Description
Note Not set Arbitrary note about the font. This is not put into a generated font, but is there for the designer's use for keeping notes about the UFO (changes, thoughts, to-do list, etc.).