Thin is the same weight as Regular (static fonts)

googlefonts / Inconsolata

Development repo of Inconsolata Fonts by Raph Levien

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Thin is the same weight as Regular (static fonts) #71

Closed svipas closed 2 years ago

svipas commented 2 years ago

Hello, @m4rc1e, thanks a lot for new 3.100 update!

As I understand new Thin weight was added together with this update, but what I found out is that it's actually the same weight as Regular.

Regular

Thin

Just wanted to let you know, everything else seems good.

m4rc1e commented 2 years ago

Which version of OS X and font book are you running?

On 12.0.1, it looks fine:

svipas commented 2 years ago

macOS Monterey (12.3.1 (21E258)) Font book: Version 10.0 (404)

I checked TTF & OTF and they have same issue, Regular weight == Thin weight.

But just to make sure, I installed variable font (Inconsolata[wdth,wght].ttf) and turns out that issue doesn't exist for variable font, it only exists for otf and ttf. I didn't test webfonts so maybe there's this problem as well.

m4rc1e commented 2 years ago

Ok cool thank you!

I'll inspect the static fonts.

svipas commented 2 years ago

Thank you very much @m4rc1e!

m4rc1e commented 2 years ago

I've figured out what's happening.

The version we currently serve on Google fonts doesn't have Thin styles. The family's designspace range is 200-900 so generating a Thin (100) is outside of this range. I'll remove the Thin instances so we've got ExtraLight-Black like we had before.