Font set being replaced by another when using multiple weights

[wgalyall]

I currently have x5 fontsets uploaded onto my site (http://williamlyall.co.uk/pm-grotesk) Thin, Light, Regular, Medium and Bold as individual fontsamplers to use. I specifically want them as individual boxes without the dropdown menu.

However the Regular weight of the typeface (what I am using for the labels on the fontsamplers) is always automatically replaced by the Bold weight — not sure why this is? The file is uploaded fine but I can't work out why it would be replaced with Bold.

[patricking]

this sounds like an issue i was having with a layered family of typefaces. all of them had the same weight that the CSS uses (they were all set to 500, simply because i forgot to change them)

in your font info, make sure there’s a different weight specified for each face in your family. so thin=250, light=300, reg=500, med=600, bold=700

(I think I remember those numbers are the defaults, they can change if you need to do so)

then re-upload your fonts, delete the old copies as well, delete your cache files from WP super cache if you’re using it, and then refresh your page. might do the trick.

[wgalyall]

Great thanks for the quick reply Patrick — that's worked!

Not sure I would have picked up on that so thanks for highlighting to me.

W

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 6:24 PM, Patric King notifications@github.com wrote:

this sounds like an issue i was having with a layered family of typefaces. all of them had the same weight that the CSS uses (they were all set to 500, simply because i forgot to change them)

in your font info, make sure there’s a different weight specified for each face in your family. so thin=250, light=300, reg=500, med=600, bold=700

(I think I remember those numbers are the defaults, they can change if you need to do so)

then re-upload your fonts, delete the old copies as well, delete your cache files from WP super cache if you’re using it, and then refresh your page. might do the trick.

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[kontur]

Thanks @patricking for sharing the advice, great that solved the issue.

There is generally a shortcoming in regard to using fonts that share PS Family name and weight where browsers "group" them as one. This is on my list of major to-do’s for this plugin, but requires hacking one of the underlying libraries. Ideally, I would like to completely disregard any (potentially faulty or contradictory) postscript info in the woff files and just overwrite them with the passed in font names as per #122.