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Overpass open source web font family — Sponsored by Red Hat
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Overpass Semibold given Overpass Light family name #49

Open rgmatthes opened 7 years ago

rgmatthes commented 7 years ago

Prevents correct installation.

andyfitzsuse commented 7 years ago

? can you add more detail here

rgmatthes commented 7 years ago

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: image

DelveFonts commented 7 years ago

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!

rgmatthes commented 7 years ago

This is in Windows 10, Microsoft Word 2016.

Here's a better picture illustrating my problem (screenshot from FontForge free trial): image

tl;dr: I think the circled values should match.

DelveFonts commented 7 years ago

Thanks @rgmatthes! Yes, they should match. Not sure how that happened but it will be fixed.

davelab6 commented 7 years ago

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?

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Thanks @rgmatthes https://github.com/rgmatthes! Yes, they should match. Not sure how that happened but it will be fixed.

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m4rc1e commented 7 years ago

@davelab6 We've used the ttf, this problem is for the otfs. I also ran the ttfs through our naming sanitiser.

screen shot 2017-04-10 at 11 13 28 My font menu look good with the GF ttfs.

DelveFonts commented 7 years ago

“I don't recommend style linking anything except Roman 400 to Roman 700 and Italic 40 to Italic 800”

@davelab6 Why is that?

davelab6 commented 7 years ago

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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rgmatthes commented 7 years ago

One more very picky thing: consistent hyphens in the variant names. This is the Windows 10 preview window for both Regular and Bold: image

No feelings on whether these should be hyphened or not, just that they should be consistent. The registry also gets goofed on this: image

Not a top priority, but if you're messing with the properties already...

m4rc1e commented 7 years ago

@rgmatthes feel free to start a new issue with this bug.