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Command-B does not bold variable-size fonts in Affinity Publisher 2.5.2


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If you look at the Context toolbar, you’ll see that the I and U buttons are enabled but the B button is disabled. I only have the static Open Sans fonts installed here, but I suspect that there is no ‘Slant’ axis in the variable version (which means that you would need to press a button or a keyboard shortcut for italic text). The expectation is that you would use the Weight axis control for bold text.

Press the V button (to the left of the Font Size combo on the Context toolbar) to display the Variable Font axis controls.

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Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro
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The issue is that Affinity currently is not able to link the weight axis of variable fonts to the “Font weight” attribute in Publisher. I first noticed this in connection with the font weight attribute in text styles and reported it, but later in the thread I also realized the (apparently) same problem also means that the bold button in the contextual menu does not work. This is evidently true for all variable fonts: the bold button, its associated keyboard shortcut, and the font-weight attribute do not work for any variable fonts. It has been logged as a bug.

 

 

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