Publisher can't find font

[dbrear]

I use Segoe UI Black as the title font for a newsletter I produce. Now I come to do the first one in Affinity, instead of PagePlus, Published can't find that font. I see elsewhere in forums that this is not just me.

Here is the font available in Word -

 

and here it isn't in Publisher -

How can I get round this please? You gather, this is a font I need!

Thanks in advance,

David

[MikeW]

Have you tried clicking on that triangle on the UI font I highlighted from your screen shot?

[dbrear]

Yes, that did it.

Thanks v much Mike. Those are associated fonts, are they? Is that something I should have known as a Windows thing for the last thirty years??

Honestly, if only Affinity would do a proper manual instead of relying on limited videos, it would save a lot of people a lot of time. Me, mainly.

[MikeW]

Great. Thanks for letting me know.

Some/many applications can collapse the individual typefaces where more than one typeface belongs to a "family" into a single heading as Affinity applications do.

[kenmcd]

3 hours ago, dbrear said:

Those are associated fonts, are they? Is that something I should have known as a Windows thing for the last thirty years??

In Windows applications like Word you are actually looking at the older style groups (family).
Once upon a time font families were four fonts - Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic (R,I,B,BI).
When you are looking at Segoe UI fonts in the font list in Word you will not see Bold or Italic listed.
That is because you select the Segoe UI style group and then click the Bold and Italic buttons to get the other fonts.

Some font families have more than one style group - which really confuses Windows Word and LibreOffice users.
Because multiple fonts are not listed in the font list.
The free Ubuntu fonts have two R,I,B,BI style groups - which confuses LibreOffice users who cannot see all the fonts.
Adobe Avenir LT has two R,I,B,BI style groups, and many others do too. (I have even found three style groups)
Unless there is some font documentation explaining this (extremely rare) - users are going to be confused.

Some fonts have italic, oblique, and slanted variations - which completely confuses Windows apps using style groups,
and users, especially if they are not constructed properly.

More advanced applications like APub, InDesign, QuarkXPress, etc. actually use different name fields inside the fonts.
The Typographic Family and Subfamily are what you see in the APub font list.
All fonts are listed. All weights, italic/oblique, and all widths.
This is much easier when there are many, many fonts in a family - far more than four.

Using the more modern Typographic Family and Subfamily to list the fonts avoids all this confusion.
I think you will get used to this better system very quickly.

 

[dbrear]

Thanks everyone.