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Overpass Semibold given Overpass Light family name
Sure. I installed the full Overpass family on a desktop using the OTF files and noticed Overpass Semibold only seemed available as an italic. Digging in, I found that's because Overpass Semibold Regular is mistakenly for in the Overpass Light family, not the Semibold family.
Here's a screenshot:
Hi @rgmatthes, Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The family name being “Overpass Light” is not a mistake. It is grouped with the Light so it can act as the ‘Bold’ for the Light weight in applications that make use of style-linking. This is fairly standard practice (for large families). Perhaps the real question here would be: why is it only showing up as italic? We will look into this matter. Could you tell us what OS / App is this occurring in? Thanks!
This is in Windows 10, Microsoft Word 2016.
Here's a better picture illustrating my problem (screenshot from FontForge free trial):
tl;dr: I think the circled values should match.
Thanks @rgmatthes! Yes, they should match. Not sure how that happened but it will be fixed.
I don't recommend style linking anything except Roman 400 to Roman 700 and Italic 40 to Italic 800
@m4rc1e did you hotfix this for GF?
On Apr 7, 2017 8:49 PM, "Delve Withrington" [email protected] wrote:
Thanks @rgmatthes https://github.com/rgmatthes! Yes, they should match. Not sure how that happened but it will be fixed.
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@davelab6 We've used the ttf, this problem is for the otfs. I also ran the ttfs through our naming sanitiser.
My font menu look good with the GF ttfs.
“I don't recommend style linking anything except Roman 400 to Roman 700 and Italic 40 to Italic 800”
@davelab6 Why is that?
It's the current fontlab recommendation; in my experience users are confused by missing styles :)
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“I don't recommend style linking anything except Roman 400 to Roman 700 and Italic 40 to Italic 800”
@davelab6 https://github.com/davelab6 Why is that?
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One more very picky thing: consistent hyphens in the variant names. This is the Windows 10 preview window for both Regular and Bold:
No feelings on whether these should be hyphened or not, just that they should be consistent. The registry also gets goofed on this:
Not a top priority, but if you're messing with the properties already...