Wrong italic style for regular type face in Publisher

[Babelfisch]

Hello!

I use the font Geomanist from Atipo. The font has several type faces e.g. Regular and Book (Buch). The problem with this font on Affinity Publisher is a wrong order of the type faces in the font list. Usually, the order is:

• …
• Regular
• Regular italic
• Book
• Book Italic
• …

With this font there is a wrong order with the Regular italic type face:

• Regular
• Book
• Book italic
• Regular italic

That would not be bad but the crux of the matter is that a italic style (with the [i] button) on a regular text will be Book italic and not Regular italic. On the screenshot you can see a paragraph with a Regular type face and the word „modernen“ is marked as italic with the [i] button. The type face of „modernen“ is now Book italic and not Regular italic as expected.

I use Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 on macOS 14.4.1

Deleting ond reinstalling the font does not help.

Translation for the screenshot: Buch → Book, kursiv → italic

[kenmcd]

The fonts are a mess.
There are multiple duplicates in the style groups.
Regular, Bold, and Book are in the same RIBBI style group. Bad.
Similar errors with the Thin, ExtraLight, Black, Ultra, etc.
These errors can result in the wrong font embedded in a PDF - like you have.

And the weight settings are also a mess.
Regular and Book are both 400.
Thin and ExtraLight are both 250.
Some apps use these to sort the font menu by increasing weight.
So when they are duplicated things may not sort properly.

So...
I fixed the style groups.
And set the weights sanely (Book is now 450).
And changed the family name to GeomanistAF.
(so you can install them at the same time as the originals,
and they are not confused with the originals)
They should work properly now.

Will send them to you via PM.
Only test I did was install them and check sorting.
If you have any other odd issues, please let me know.
 

P.S. Kinda bad selling fonts this badly broken.