While this is more of a kerning check than a features check, I found this
fabulous chunk of text by Jonathan Hoefler. It is a vastly improved "quick brown fox", where you can scan to see if the font you are checking has any kerning issues.
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The new proof begins with each of the capital letters bounded by flat-sided and round-sided neighbors: the capital A up against the flat side of the n, and then the round side of the d, in the pair “Angel Adept.” This pattern continues through the Z, with “Zloty Zodiac.”
From here, each sentence begins with a capital letter, in alphabetical order, making things easy to locate: everything connected with the lowercase K, for example, is in the “K-sentence,” which begins with the capital-K “Knoll.” The sentence includes examples of this letter at the head of a word, bordering flat and round neighbors (“knoll koala”), and then between flat and round letters (“banknote lookout”), where we can categorically see how they’re fitted with typographically-neutral forms. Each sentence proceeds to show the letter at the ends of words (“dybbuk outlook”), and concludes with a schnapps-word (“trekked”). I’ve sprinkled the proof with short fragments of connective tissue (and, of the, for the) to produce a pattern that’s plausibly comparable to real text, useful for those many times when the goal is not to evaluate the behavior of an individual letter, but rather to take in the text en masse, to appreciate its rhythm, its color, and its texture.
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