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belluzj / fantasque-sans

A font family with a great monospaced variant for programmers.
http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/fantasque-sans-mono
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Bold replaces Medium on Windows #1

Closed 1deadpixl closed 10 years ago

1deadpixl commented 10 years ago

On my Windows 7 PC, I installed the medium weight and when I tried the installing the bold weight it asked me to replace the first weight that I installed. I'm guessing that it's because the OpenType font name is the same and that's how Windows decides if it needs to replace an existing font. Let me know if you need some more details.

Thanks for a great monospaced font!

spoike commented 10 years ago

It's the same with the TrueType font version. You can only install one of them at a time on Windows.

1deadpixl commented 10 years ago

OK. Are you saying that's normal? I don't understand why I shouldn't I be able to install more than one weight at a time.

Thanks for the reply. On Nov 21, 2013 12:44 AM, "Mikael Brassman" notifications@github.com wrote:

It's the same with the TrueType font. You can only install one of them at a time.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/belluzj/cosmic-sans-neue/issues/1#issuecomment-28966201 .

spoike commented 10 years ago

@1deadpixl Oh, I'm not the maintainer of this project. I'm just adding to the discussion that you can't do it with the *.ttf files as well. I noticed this myself when I tried it some moments ago. :-) I'm guessing the font author forgot to change the meta data between the font weights.

belluzj commented 10 years ago

This is of course abnormal, on Linux it works well. Unfortunately I do not have windows, and I am not an expert in FontForge, I will just try to reproduce the settings of Consolas which I have on my computer.

spoike commented 10 years ago

@belluzj Let us know when you made the change so we can test it for you. ;) Crowdsource ftw.

belluzj commented 10 years ago

Try the latest commit

spoike commented 10 years ago

@belluzj, tried it... didn't work.

Have you tried setting weights and font family in FontForge? There is some info here http://fontforge.org/fontinfo.html

belluzj commented 10 years ago

Maybe this time?

spoike commented 10 years ago

@belluzj It works!

Note to other users: uninstall the old font in Windows before trying to install the new ones, or it'll still complain.