madmalik/mononoki

Bold Italic is not being grouped as same family in Windows

potasiyam opened this issue · 3 comments

potasiyam commented

Hello, first of all thank you so much for creating this beautiful font.
I am using Mononoki in Windows 10. I was selecting Mononoki as default in gVim. In the font choosing dialogue box Mononoki is showing like this-
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The bold italic variant is out of the family. I checked fonts folder of Windows, bold italic was not there-
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I deleted Mononoki group then the bold italic variant appeared as a single font. I am guessing the issue is somewhere in font naming.

richardgv commented

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.

datMaffin commented

I was able to fix this (and related issues) by renaming the "Fontname" from "mononoki-BoldItalic" to "mononoki-Bold-Italic".
The regex windows seems to use is apparently a bit picky.

madmalik commented

I have renamed the bold italic version accordingly. Testing on Windows 10, all styles were then grouped correctly for me, the change will be in the next published version.