Richard Usher Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Hello, I was wondering if any one could help out. I've lost the ability to make text bold in Affinity Publisher. I am using Adobe Fonts (Freight Text Pro) and recently Adobe had a bug which removed all system fonts, which they have since rectified with an update. I have reloaded the Adobe fonts and they have reappeared in Affinity and the other programs I use such as Word and InCopy. However, I can no longer toggle text to bold in Affinity (the function is just grayed out) although this is not an issue in Word or InCopy where they work fine. I was wondering if anyone in the community might be able to assist with some steps that I can take to rectify this? Thanks ever so much Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted September 9, 2020 Staff Share Posted September 9, 2020 Hi Richard if you try this with a standard font such as Times are you able to? If not please could you provide a copy of your file? Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 5 hours ago, Richard Usher said: I have reloaded the Adobe fonts and they have reappeared in Affinity and the other programs I use such as Word and InCopy. Did you reload the complete font set, and do all of them appear in Publisher? In particular, you would (I think) need FreightText Pro Bold in order for Publisher to allow bold text in that font. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfriedberg Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Freight Text Pro Bold not only needs to be in the font list, but it needs to be grouped in the font family Freight Text Pro, not in a separate Freight Test Pro Bold font family. Based on the font metadata, sometimes all the weights are grouped into the main font family, and sometimes they are grouped seperately. In the latter case, you generally can't apply Bold. However, there is a reasonable workaround based on character styling. If you look at the predefined character styles, you'll see that Emphasis applies italics and Strong applies bold. However, character styles can do pretty much anything with regard to font choice, size, and traits. If Body is your paragraph style using Freight Text Pro and Freight Text Pro Bold is in the font list, but grouped into a different font family, create a new character style Body Strong or Body Bold. There, instead of setting the bold trait, set the Freight Text Pro Bold font. One nice thing is that having an explicit character style lets you set up things like Initial Words, not just ad-hoc text styling. As a strong advocate of explicit styling, I'd argue that you should be using a Bold character style rather than the raw Bold font trait directly anyway. As related in another thread, I recently purchased licenses for two large font families from the same small foundry. One of them groups all the weights into a single font family. The other groups each weight into its own font family of just a roman and italic of the same weight. I had to develop this workaround in order to anything useful with the latter font family. Old Bruce and walt.farrell 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Usher Posted September 10, 2020 Author Share Posted September 10, 2020 Thank you everyone for your help. I have deleted all fonts, reloaded them and made sure the Freight Text Pro family is grouped together and it has solved the issue. Thanks again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skbarksy Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 As a related issue, I downloaded the cinzel font family and the font drop down menu shows multiple options under the cinzel family, but they all are labled "regular" and essentially are identical to the base font. Even though the files installed are definitely for the entire font family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 Sounds like you have installed the variable font version. Affinity applications do not support these variable fonts. Remove them and only install the font files from the Static font folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skbarksy Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 On 9/23/2023 at 3:11 PM, MikeW said: Sounds like you have installed the variable font version. Affinity applications do not support these variable fonts. Remove them and only install the font files from the Static font folder. Thanks! Good to know. I'll give static a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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