CertifiedOrganic Posted June 23, 2022 Posted June 23, 2022 Hi, I have this issue with more than one font family, including some of the Google Fonts. (Usually) the Regular of the font family will show in the list, but the bold, italic, light, etc. will not show, and are not available for use in the design. In the Cotford font family of 16 fonts, a slightly different problem: In the dropdown menu, all the fonts are called "Regular", but when you select each one, the design responds with the correct font, Italic or what have you. You just don't know the name so you have to hover over the dropdown and watch the changes to get the font you need. I opened MSWord as a test to verify all these fonts are installed; they're all available there, and display correctly. HELP! Thanks Quote
walt.farrell Posted June 23, 2022 Posted June 23, 2022 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @CertifiedOrganic. You are probably installing Variable fonts.They are not supported by the Affinity applications. Instead, you should install Static versions. When you download fonts from Google Fonts, you will usually get a file with both. You need the ones in the Static directory, for use with Affinity. 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
CertifiedOrganic Posted June 23, 2022 Author Posted June 23, 2022 Thanks. I'm from the ancient days of postscript/truetype. So, if a font does not come with "static", I won't be able to use it. I appreciate your time! walt.farrell 1 Quote
walt.farrell Posted June 23, 2022 Posted June 23, 2022 27 minutes ago, CertifiedOrganic said: So, if a font does not come with "static", I won't be able to use it. Right. All the Google fonts have static versions, as far as I know. There may be others that don't, though. 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Alfred Posted June 23, 2022 Posted June 23, 2022 13 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: All the Google fonts have static versions, as far as I know. There may be others that don't, though. Monotype offers Cotford Display Extra Bold for free. It seems unlikely that they would create a static version of that particular weight but not the others. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
CertifiedOrganic Posted June 24, 2022 Author Posted June 24, 2022 21 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Right. All the Google fonts have static versions, as far as I know. There may be others that don't, though. Thanks again, I appreciate it. walt.farrell 1 Quote
CertifiedOrganic Posted June 24, 2022 Author Posted June 24, 2022 20 hours ago, Alfred said: Monotype offers Cotford Display Extra Bold for free. It seems unlikely that they would create a static version of that particular weight but not the others. Thanks loads for that tip, I appreciate it. Alfred 1 Quote
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