The bold italic version of mononoki font is detected as a separate font

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The bold italic version of mononoki font is detected as a separate font

Case3y opened this issue 2 years ago · 6 comments

When I use windows terminal, I found that the blod italic version of mononoki font is detected as a separate font. I can choose mononoki BoldItalic. And there was no blod italic version when I choose mononoki font in Git Bash.

I intall the ttf font on my Windows system.

Answer 1 · 2023-05-11T18:34:30.000Z

Sounds like a duplicate of the resolved #49. Are you sure you are using a recent version of mononoki? I believe if you search for fonts in the windows settings you can see the version number of the installed font.

Answer 2 · 2023-05-12T07:42:55.000Z

Sounds like a duplicate of the resolved #49. Are you sure you are using a recent version of mononoki? I believe if you search for fonts in the windows settings you can see the version number of the installed font.

Thanks for your replay. The version of mononoki is 1.0006. My system language is Simplified Chinese. It also have same problem when I use another version (1.0004)

Answer 3 · 2023-05-13T09:35:22.000Z

I'm gonna try to reproduce the issue. Is this Windows 10 or 11?

Answer 4 · 2023-05-13T10:05:31.000Z

I've tested it on Windows and it is correctly recognized as a single font family.

I suspect that this is an issue with the windows installation. I am gonna close the issue for now - if someone knows steps to reproduce it please write a comment here and I will reopen it.

Answer 5 · 2023-05-13T17:38:32.000Z

I checked it now also on windows (reinstalled the most recent mononoki release), and in the settings it seems to be correctly grouped. However, the Windows terminal really is still listing them separately:

Answer 6 · 2023-07-10T04:12:52.000Z

I solved the problem using this method proposed in #49， I delete the "Preferred Name" and "Preferred Styles"

What worked for me on Windows 7 SP1 is:

Open mononoki-BoldItalic.ttf with FontForge.
Choose "Element" menu -> "Font Info".
Choose "TTF Names" tab in the appeared "Font Information" window, and remove the "Preferred Styles" entry with its right-click menu.
Re-export the TTF via "File" menu -> "Generate Fonts".

It seems Windows is extraordinarily picky on many font properties.

Originally posted by @richardgv in #49 (comment)