elipso97 Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 Hello, I am using latest macOS Ventura 13.0.1 and Affinity Designer 2.0.0 and have installed a whole Rubik font family which works fine with other software, like Sketch on my Mac. On Affinity only the italic version is showing and not the regular, bold etc. See screenshots. Any ideas if I am doing something wrong or is this a bug? I looked for a solution online and couldn't find anything useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 The font is probably a Variable font. The Affinity applications only support Static fonts. 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smac1314 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 I'm having the same problem with the Athelas font. I'm also on Ventura 13.01 and Affinity 2. The font is definitely not variable. Looks like it's a Mac issue. The same font is available on Pages but not Word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Rubik isn't variable, it works fine on Monterey 12.6.1 with Affinity 2 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Obsolete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curaloucura Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 It took me a long and frustrating journey to understand why after upgrading to Ventura and now to V2 suite of affinity, suddenly most of my projects started to complain about missing fonts that I didn't even intentionally installed. Turns out I was using a lot of Apple fonts or other fonts I added long time ago that are now Variable. Because many of those fonts are not available as TTF I have now to start looking for alternatives, going back to design stage of a project that I thought was print-ready and small changes to old layouts now mean having to spend hours of research for a similar-looking font. And what is more frustrating is to know that, if my documents were made with Adobe, I wouldn't have any problem with the fonts now. This also made my font selection much more restricted as now, from my operation system, the compatible font library is much more limited and I need to spend time and money to get alternatives. lacerto 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 @elipso97 If you use the fonts from an Adobe subscription it is possible, that it is the variable version of the font. If you download it from Google Fonts, you have the choice between variable and static version of the font. Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.2033) Affinity Suite V 2.5.5 & Beta 2.(latest) Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Before you ask! No! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RNKLN Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 Looking at the first screen shot, which comes from Font Book, it appears to be an issue at the macOS level. Only the Italic versions are highlighted while the regular versions are dimmed. Affinity seems to respect what is happening in the OS, while the other tools, such as Sketch, have their own way of working with this Rubik font. Quote Affinity Photo - Affinity Designer - Affinity Publisher | macOS Sonoma (14.5) on 16GB MBP14 2021 with 2.5.X versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 Obsolete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 1 hour ago, curaloucura said: Turns out I was using a lot of Apple fonts or other fonts I added long time ago that are now Variable. Because many of those fonts are not available as TTF I have now to start looking for alternatives, going back to design stage of a project that I thought was print-ready and small changes to old layouts now mean having to spend hours of research for a similar-looking font. The SF interface font went variable in 2020 (IIRC). And it is a variable TTF. And there static TTF files available which match most of the styles (the dev fonts). What other fonts are now variable in macOS Ventura? What specific font(s) do you need to finish your project? 1 hour ago, curaloucura said: And what is more frustrating is to know that, if my documents were made with Adobe, I wouldn't have any problem with the fonts now. This also made my font selection much more restricted as now, from my operation system, the compatible font library is much more limited and I need to spend time and money to get alternatives. Hopefully Affinity can get this fixed in the first update, and your old fonts will again be available. There has obviously been a change in how macOS Ventura handles these "Document support fonts" - and Adopey has already made the needed updates. On 11/13/2022 at 2:03 PM, elipso97 said: Hello, I am using latest macOS Ventura 13.0.1 and Affinity Designer 2.0.0 and have installed a whole Rubik font family which works fine with other software, like Sketch on my Mac. On Affinity only the italic version is showing and not the regular, bold etc. See screenshots. Any ideas if I am doing something wrong or is this a bug? I looked for a solution online and couldn't find anything useful. Rubik does include both static and variable fonts. And it looks like you installed the variable fonts. Issues with the STAT table (where the style-linking is done in variable fonts) could explain only the Italics showing. OR ... Ventura could be confused by a STAT table being included in the static fonts. I just checked and the Rubik static fonts do include a STAT table (and they should not). Recently I saw an issue in the GF repo where their current font build process can sometimes inadvertently include a STAT table in the static fonts. And I have seen some other issues posted where this seems to be a problem in some applications. Perhaps it is now a problem in macOS Ventura. First, make sure you do have only the static fonts installed. Then, if you still have an issue - it could be this STAT table issue. To confirm this, I can send you some modified static fonts with that table removed. Then we will know for sure one way or the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curaloucura Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 On 12/3/2022 at 7:46 PM, kenmcd said: The SF interface font went variable in 2020 (IIRC). And it is a variable TTF. And there static TTF files available which match most of the styles (the dev fonts). What other fonts are now variable in macOS Ventura? What specific font(s) do you need to finish your project? It looks like I used a lot of Hiragino Kaku on my titles and that was missing but I just found this post which describes a similar problem to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 4 hours ago, curaloucura said: Hiragino Kaku You should be able to just replace that one with the Hiragino Sans - which is the same font and not restricted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elipso97 Posted January 12, 2023 Author Share Posted January 12, 2023 On 12/3/2022 at 4:52 PM, Komatös said: @elipso97 If you use the fonts from an Adobe subscription it is possible, that it is the variable version of the font. If you download it from Google Fonts, you have the choice between variable and static version of the font. Hi, I have tried this and it is still the same issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elipso97 Posted January 12, 2023 Author Share Posted January 12, 2023 16 minutes ago, elipso97 said: Hi, I have tried this and it is still the same issue. Here is what shows for me when I have completely removed the font and installed regular followed by italic static font: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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