marticliment / ElevenClock

ElevenClock: Customize Windows 11 taskbar clock
https://www.marticliment.com/elevenclock/
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[ENHANCEMENT] (Support for applying bold font to clock) #1327

Closed abcd123666 closed 2 months ago

abcd123666 commented 6 months ago

Please confirm these before moving forward

Describe the improvement

Currently, I only have the option to choose the regular style while bold for certain fonts would be the best for improved readability.

Describe how this improvement could help users.

Just for a comfier clock with some fonts.

marticliment commented 6 months ago

Yo should be able to do so, which ElevenClock version are you running?

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abcd123666 commented 6 months ago

You are right, but the specific custom font I'm using, which is Anonymous Pro Regular, doesn't allow to pick the bold style, I guess this is because I didn't install the bold font separately due to it changing the shape of the font entirely to Consolas-like instead. I was able to set up the bold from regular in Windows Explorer, VSC, Firefox, MySQL Workbench, DBeaver, mIRC.. some doing it natively when the font is installed and picked, while with others having to resort to .css or .json config files, but there's no way I can put this specific font in bold with this software. You can test the font if you like by installing the regular-only .ttf.

Obviously I'll keep using your program as it is very useful (the default clock is minuscule, specially with high res panels).

But, anyway, I can perfectly use another font like Arial Rounded MT.

I appreciate all your efforts and sincerely wish you the best in your projects. Regards.

marticliment commented 6 months ago

I will investigate this, but I can't guarantee anything

marticliment commented 2 months ago

I am afraid there appears to exist a bug with Qt and some fonts. Therefore, I can't fix this from ElevenClock