Bold and italic

[BandarRaffah]

Great font! Is Bold andItalic in the plan?

[ThomasJockin]

Thank you for the kind words, Bandar. There are no plans right now for weight and slant axes for Lexend. The team is currently focused on expanding script support to Arabic. We can keep you posted if developments change.

[BandarRaffah]

@ThomasJockin , no worries for sure. I am working on adding a weight axis to the font, also making an SS for a more geometric look, may GOD allow it. Here is an early preview 😋

[ThomasJockin]

Interesting @BandarRaffah! There are typographic color and curve definition issues but this is exciting. Would you be interested in advisement on producing the heavier weights? Happy to offer weekly check ins and mentorship ☺️

[BandarRaffah]

@ThomasJockin yes i’m interested! But i have few considerations:

1- Are we going for Black as the thickest weight or just Bold or ExtraBold considering the readability purpose of the font?

2- A Thin master (20 points thick) is on the work also, seems faster to achieve because It needs less optical-correction. Will show you soon.

3- I deleted the wide master and axis when i started on this but i’m sure that you have a way to merge files together when the right time comes.

[BandarRaffah]

@ThomasJockin Here is early Thin / ExtraLight / Light, no optical-correction yet, and some width and shape adjustments and ligatures kerning are still on the list. Side-bearings are kept like the regular master with no adjustments.

[ThomasJockin]

Cool, please email me to set up a chat about next steps. @BandarRaffah

[BandarRaffah]

@ThomasJockin I'll do that soon, just finishing some stuff to clear my mind for this 🙂

[saescapa]

:+1: to this! Would love to use this font on my project

[JamsheedMistri]

+1 to this! Would love to use the bold and italic fonts on my project as well!

[diegomath]

Bold 1st

[adriantilinca84]

bold first; the light version looks good also

[luiscastro193]

This would be great since Adobe XD doesn't allow faux bold

[hub2git]

I too am seeking bold and italics versions of Lexend.

In Google Docs, I can turn regular Lexend font into bold or italics or both bold-italics. How come it's possible in Google Docs/Sheets/Slides but not outside of Google suite?

[johnknoop]

If you guys decide to introduce more weights.. could you call the current one "Medium" and then create a new "Regular" which is slightly lighter?

It's just that compared to most multi-weight fonts, this one is quite bold, especially obvious in smaller font sizes (~14px).

[jessemkahn]

I would love bold and oblique versions of Lexend. Happy to help if there's any need.

[BrainStone]

@BandarRaffah How is bold coming along? Your work looked promising!

[ldanielswakman]

Great to read this initiative and see the initial work on the weight axis! Is this something we can access/test already? Happy to contribute with amateur but enthusiast opinions :)

[erikjordan]

+1 to bold version. Beautiful font.

[jakepfohl]

+1 to the bold and italic version. Currently using this on a blog and having those would put the cherry on top of this beautiful font!

[adrinux]

@hub2git

In Google Docs, I can turn regular Lexend font into bold or italics or both bold-italics. How come it's possible in Google Docs/Sheets/Slides but not outside of Google suite?

For web browsers you can use CSS to specify "font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" and if the web browser can't find italic or bold variants of the font either installed or via a link to a web font it will calculate "fake" versions.

Historically this could lead to some visually bad results, at least with certain typefaces - jagged edges on the italic for example. That may not be the case in modern browsers and with Lexend - test widely! Variable fonts may also get around this limitation...

Obviously that won't necessarily work if you're using Lexend in a desktop application. YMMV.

[BrainStone]

LuaLaTeX (and similar) can also properly syntetisize those variants.

[damon02]

Would love to see a bold version of this font, it is kind of blocking me from using it at the moment since different browsers render it so much differently. In Safari it gets rendered with an insane amount of letter spacing, which looks weird if you compare it to chrome

[adriantilinca]

@ThomasJockin , @BandarRaffah any news about the bold or light version?

[davelab6]

@BandarRaffah I'm also curious about your progress on this.

[ThomasJockin]

@adrinux @davelab6 A meeting over Zoom was set on October 2, 2019 between myself and Bandar. @BandarRaffah Did not attend the meeting nor message to communicate a schedule conflict. There has been no communication since then.

[davelab6]

What a pity! Thanks for letting us know

[danielpetho]

+1 to bold

[marcus-downing]

+1 for bold. Less for for italic, since that tends to impair readability.

[FlorianLudwig]

You can download a bold version on google fonts: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lexend?query=lexend

Not sure where they come from though.

[ithinkihaveacat]

Not quite sure of the relationship between this repo and Lexend, but Google say an italic version of Lexend will be available Spring 2022 from Octavio Pardo.

[brzzdev]

Not quite sure of the relationship between this repo and Lexend, but Google say an italic version of Lexend will be available Spring 2022 from Octavio Pardo.

Did that ever happen? Can't seem to find it

[ithinkihaveacat]

Did that ever happen? Can't seem to find it

Not yet! But apparently imminent: https://github.com/googlefonts/lexend/issues/14#issuecomment-1340572250