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More Font Weights

Open alexkaessner opened this issue 4 years ago • 9 comments

I wish there would be a few more weight options. Especially bolder ones. Currently it's limited to a weight between 300 and 700. Using it in bigger sizes the font could push the limit to even bolder. 😉

PS: Also the variable font only includes two Regular weight presets. Would be handy to have the weights from the normal font here as Preset selection as well.

alexkaessner avatar Apr 28 '20 22:04 alexkaessner

Hurray, a bolder style is in the making.

✔️ Light ✔️ Regular ✔️ Medium ✔️ Bold ⏳ Black

mightybart avatar Aug 02 '20 18:08 mightybart

It'd be also useful to include SemiBold weight in GitHub releases, especially woff2 and woff files.

naiyerasif avatar Nov 06 '20 06:11 naiyerasif

There shouldn't be SemiBold style in the first place, Space Grotesk is only 4 styles. Not sure what happened there. @davelab6 @vv-monsalve Google Fonts site includes SemiBold, but not sure why?

mightybart avatar Nov 06 '20 08:11 mightybart

The api creates all 100x weights along the range of the axis. @vv-monsalve please update the spec doc to make this clearer to everyone :)

100-900 is a v3 request

davelab6 avatar Nov 06 '20 17:11 davelab6

Ahh now I understand, but that is true only for variable fonts right?

I must say it is a little unfortunate in this case, I think there is not enough room to squeeze in another style between Medium and Bold and it looks a little weird. Also it is confusing, I would expect to find the SemiBold style also in this repository.

mightybart avatar Nov 06 '20 19:11 mightybart

The api creates all 100x weights along the range of the axis. @vv-monsalve please update the spec doc to make this clearer to everyone :)

@davelab6 Should we mention it as a temporary issue?

vv-monsalve avatar Nov 06 '20 19:11 vv-monsalve

It's a permanent feature of the api. The avar table can be used to adjust the appearance at 600, if needed. I don't think there's anything to do, except maybe add the 600 to the build script that outputs static fonts here.

davelab6 avatar Nov 06 '20 19:11 davelab6

@mightybart - Are ExtraLight / Thin weights also planned?

cssobral2013 avatar Nov 07 '20 18:11 cssobral2013

https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/3411

thlinard avatar May 11 '21 19:05 thlinard