Text style font family setting, how to specify the correct weight (Affinity automatically selects ultralight)

[Betsy Thinking Ink Press]

Hi, I'm new to Publisher am trying to customize text style settings. Our company uses Source San 3, regular weight for most body copy. So I am starting with the text style Body.

When I edit Body, I can only find a field for Font family. I can select Source San 3, but not specify the weight. Affinity automatically selects the ultralight weight, and I can't figure out how to change that. I have tried formatting the text locally to be Regular and using Update Body, but that doesn't seem to work.

I have also tried applying No Style to the text and using local formatting. Even though the document shows Source San 3 and Regular in the fields in the upper left, and visually it looks like the Regular weight, when I export the document as a PDF, the PDF shows the ultralight weight.

Can you help?

Regards,
Betsy

 

postcard back test mar 21.pdf

[Komatös]

Hi @Betsy Thinking Ink Press and welcome to the forums.

I assume that you have installed the font in the variable version. The Affinity programs cannot handle this. You need to install the static version of the font.

[Alfred]

49 minutes ago, Betsy Thinking Ink Press said:

Affinity automatically selects the ultralight weight, and I can't figure out how to change that.

 

7 minutes ago, Komatös said:

I assume that you have installed the font in the variable version. The Affinity programs cannot handle this. You need to install the static version of the font.

I don’t see an UltraLight weight in the static set. The lightest is ExtraLight.

[Betsy Thinking Ink Press]

Hi, thank you for responding! Yes, sorry it's Extra Light, not ultralight.

Source San 3 is a Google font set. I don't see a static version. I wonder if the Adobe version is static? We've used Source Sans in Creative Suite without issues in the past. I have a new computer and don't have all the same fonts that I used to. I also don't have a current Creative Suite license, but someone else at our press does, so I'll follow up with him.

Appreciate the help!

[Komatös]

5 minutes ago, Betsy Thinking Ink Press said:

Appreciate the help!

Here is a zip with the variable and static versions.

 

Source_Sans_3.zip

[Betsy Thinking Ink Press]

Wow, thank you Komatos!

[Komatös]

 

8 minutes ago, Betsy Thinking Ink Press said:

Wow

You are welcome!

[Alfred]

3 hours ago, Betsy Thinking Ink Press said:

Source San 3 is a Google font set. I don't see a static version.

Google Fonts are typically supplied in a set comprising variable font TTF files, a copy of the Open Font Licence, a Read Me file, and a subfolder containing static fonts. For Source Sans 3, the files are as follows:

SourceSans3-VariableFont_wght.ttf
SourceSans3-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf
OFL.txt
README.txt
static [folder]

The ‘static’ folder in this case contains 16 TTF files.