Hello, I am a designer from Tokyo and new here.
I could really benefit from your professional experience.
Now, I am planning to design a corporate-font with Glyphs for a company in Japan, as my business.
To do that, I have to prove the font I will deliver (will be .ttf) contains no virus, malware and such a things, since the font will be in the system of the company.
It sounds a bit weird question. But,
Is there a way to prove that to the client?
If you have the same (or similar) experience in the past, I would appreciate it very much if you could tell me about it.
Also any suggestion would be thankful!
This is a quiet unusual request.
You can’t prove that, because whatever you tell them is no prove. You can tell them how they can prove it themselves. There are several options:
Run it through a virus scanner.
Convert the font to XML with ttx. Then they can check for hidden code.
Use is as a webfont in FireFox. They have pretty good guards against malicious fonts. If it shows up in the website, ti should be fine.
The data in an OpenType/TTF font is relatively inert except for the hinting. If a TT font is not hinted, then it is not executed in computational terms; its just data that is interpreted rather safely.