Incorrect font names for Regular and Bold FontSpector Google check

Daan · February 1, 2026, 6:30pm

Hi there!

I’ve been trying to pass the FontSpector Google check for my 3 weights family, but no luck. Checking a lot of google documentation / chatGPT and I think all settings are as they should be, but still FontSpector gave me these errors:

Google documentations says Typographic Family Name (ID 16) and Typo Subfamily Name (ID 17) should be empty (N/A), but for my third weight Light they DO need to have Family Name and Subfamily Name.

Google documentation says this is the style link setting for Regular / Bold

I’ve done this as described above in my Export setting in Glyphs. So this is for Regular, for Bold the bold checkbox is checked.

Is there maybe a parameter I need to add? It’s complex stuff to fully understand Can someone help me out? Thanks a lot!

SCarewe · February 1, 2026, 6:36pm

Can you try with Fontbakery? This looks like a Fontspector bug, from what I can see.

Daan · February 1, 2026, 6:48pm

Thanks for the quick reply, but it has the same Failures

ChatGPT wanted me to check the ttf files via Terminal to see name ID’s, maybe this helps?

GeorgSeifert · February 1, 2026, 7:32pm

Some people don’t like it when nameID1==nameID16 and nameID2==nameID17 and leave out 16/17 in those cases. But there are reasons to always keep them. Technically either way is fine.

Daan · February 1, 2026, 7:46pm

Good to know this! Is there a way in Glyphs to have it the way Google Fonts wants it? Or will they accept it as it is right now?

khaled · February 1, 2026, 10:45pm

Google Fonts does not accept font binaries, they expect the sources to be built with gf-builder (which uses fontmake under the hood) and it handles this the way they want it.

jkutilek · February 2, 2026, 10:13am

This is a Google-Fonts-specific check. So unless you are producing fonts for Google, you can ignore it.

That being said, a FAIL seems a bit much. A WARN status may be more appropriate, as the fonts are not technically wrong.

mekkablue · February 2, 2026, 2:02pm

this.

Google Fonts checks are overly strict, and only really apply to Google Fonts. Better go for the Universal profile, perhaps the Adobe Fonts profile, which is Adobe-specific (will e.g. reject colorfont tables) but not as strict.