Fonts are not working correctly

[Kapatin]

Hi, I'm experiencing an issue with a font from Google Fonts. Affinity software (Photo/Designer) isn't letting me to choose a different font style. I see Regular, Regular, Regular, Regular, Regular and Regular instead of Extra Light, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold. The font supports multiple styles and works in every other software I tried. Resetting text styles doesn't help.
The font can be downloaded here.
I also took a screensgot of the issue.

Edited April 27, 2020 by Kapatin

[Chris B]

Hey Kapatin,

This usually happens when a font developer creates a 'faux' font style.

Affinity does not support these faux fonts as they can potentially cause issues. I will look into this a bit more though.

[MikeW]

3 hours ago, Kapatin said:

Hi, I'm experiencing an issue with a font from Google Fonts. Affinity software (Photo/Designer) isn't letting me to choose a different font style. I see Regular, Regular, Regular, Regular, Regular and Regular instead of Extra Light, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold. The font supports multiple styles and works in every other software I tried. Resetting text styles doesn't help.
The font can be downloaded here.
I also took a screensgot of the issue.

Are you downloading and using the individual weights of Oswald, or are you trying to use the single variable version of the font?

It sounds like you are trying to use the single variable version. As Affinity applications do not support variable fonts, they show up as a single style.

So if this is a case of trying to use the variable font version, uninstall it. Install the other versions.