Let's consider the following family grouping: InĪddition, for families containing more than four styles, there shouldīe several "short" families with up to four styles each. Styles truly reflecting the typographic design of each style. Should be a "long" family where there is one family name and multiple Want to do is reset flags and change the internal names, Fontlab (theĬompany) has some less expensive font editors such as TypeTool.Ī free open source alternative would be FontForge.įollowing is an excellent article on font naming by Adam Twardoch,įontLab's technical genius and Product and Marketing Manager: I'mĪfraid that e-mail's re-wrapping may make the table hard to put backįrom: Adam Twardoch (Original Message) Sent: 10:26 PMĬreating font families that have family and style naming that works inĮach font family should contain two family naming systems. Products to identify and associate them properly with their familyĪs Jukka said, FontLab would be today's tool of choice. There's also a flag that needs to be set for MS The internal font NAMES aren't the only thing that identifies bold and Also even FontLab cannot always keep all the hinting information as it is. FontLab is a a very good font editing tool and you can do a lot with it but as a conversion tool it may be an overkill or at least very confusing. TransType can rename fonts as well as convert them into another format. The font outlines are ok and would probaly be ok in high resolution output but in low resolution printing and especially on screen the quality will be much worse than the original.Ĭurrently FontLab ( has the best set of font tools but they are not exactly free or cheap (demo versions available). The degrading quality is probably caused by losing font hinting in the process. The solution is to rename the font but if you use non-professional tools you'll get non-professional quality. On time I even renamed and rehinted unhinted(!) HTF Type1 fonts saved as OTF and sent back to the foundry - they did no send a reply, though. I've purchased fonts from FontFont, HTF and Emigre that I had to rename and even rehint to make them work properly. Fonts by Adobe and Linotype has the best quality. In Mac this kind of incorrect naming works as well as in Adobe CS products. Font naming is a bit tricky and I'm not always sure how it works although I've fixed fonts (too) many times. So Roice-Italic is a member of Roice-Italic family while it should belong to Roice family as a italic member. FF fonts for Windows are usually arranged that each font is a sole member of the family. The problem is caused by font naming, as you correctly suggested. Ok, I'll admit that Microsofts idea of four member font families is not too bright either. This is because FontFont (and some other foundrties) know squat about making font files correctly. ![]() ![]() Hoping to find a solution that is, at best, free or at worst, fairly Seems to degrade the quality (at least on-screen) considerably. This program cannot save OTF fonts in anything but TTF format, which I can change the internal names of the fonts using FontExpert, but Italicization will vanish if I switch the document to, say, Roice-Italic from the drop-down font list, but this is both cumbersomeĪnd problematic should I wish to use another font (because the (instead, I get some hideous approximation thereof). Hit in Word, as this will not give me the true italic The font Roice, but when I wish to use Roice Italic, I can't simply Here's a more specific example: I really like Many of my favorite fonts have styles (bold, italic, bold italic) withĭifferent names, meaning that using the command in Word will ![]() To an another forum in which I might find an answer. Maybe someone here can answer a question for me - or possibly point me
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