Hangman Posted June 21, 2024 Posted June 21, 2024 This has been touched upon in other posts and may already be logged... On Mac, the Italic instance of a font always appears before the Regular instance when selecting the font style from the Context toolbar. In the Character Panel and Text Style Editor, the Italic instance always follows the Regular instance regardless of the font selected... On Windows, the Italic instance always follows the Regular instance in all three menus... Note: This isn't the only disparity between the font-weight order (as has been highlighted before) but is the most obvious... Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
Alfred Posted June 21, 2024 Posted June 21, 2024 On iPad the information is presented consistently across the UI, but it varies according to the choice of font. 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)
Hangman Posted June 21, 2024 Author Posted June 21, 2024 I'm trying to work out the order logic of 'Cormorant Garamond' on iPad, it's not ordered: By Weight By Style or Alphabetically On Mac, it appears thus... Context Toolbar Left | Character Panel and Text Style Editor Right Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
Alfred Posted June 21, 2024 Posted June 21, 2024 1 hour ago, Hangman said: I'm trying to work out the order logic of 'Cormorant Garamond' on iPad, it's not ordered: By Weight By Style or Alphabetically I’m trying to work out the order logic of ‘Arial’ on iPad. It’s not ordered: by weight (which would put Regular and Italic before Bold and Bold Italic); by style (which would put Italic and Bold Italic together); alphabetically (which would put Bold first and Regular last). Your Mac screenshots show ‘Cormorant Garamond’ ordered by weight (Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, and Bold) but for some reason ‘Italic’ is listed before ‘Regular’ on the Context toolbar. 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)
Hangman Posted June 21, 2024 Author Posted June 21, 2024 2 minutes ago, Alfred said: but for some reason ‘Italic’ is listed before ‘Regular’ on the Context toolbar. The subject of the initial post but then you look at Fraunces, the Context toolbar is alphabetical and the Character Panel splits the list between weight and style, unlike 'Cormorant Garamond'... Context Toolbar Left | Character Panel and Text Style Editor Right Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
Alfred Posted June 21, 2024 Posted June 21, 2024 48 minutes ago, Hangman said: look at Fraunces, the Context toolbar is alphabetical and the Character Panel splits the list between weight and style Yes, it’s the same on iPad. Hangman 1 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)
Staff stokerg Posted June 27, 2024 Staff Posted June 27, 2024 Hi @Hangmanand @Alfred, This has been logged with the Developers I'm really not sure how the order these weights and styles are shown in is pulled from. Perhaps we pull it from the font (total guess on my part), which could explain why its different for different fonts. But it certainly would be better if all 3 operating systems at least showed them all in the same order. As soon as there's any comment from Dev on the report, i'll update here Alfred and Hangman 2
Hangman Posted June 27, 2024 Author Posted June 27, 2024 19 minutes ago, stokerg said: I'm really not sure how the order these weights and styles are shown in is pulled from. Perhaps we pull it from the font (total guess on my part), which could explain why its different for different fonts. But it certainly would be better if all 3 operating systems at least showed them all in the same order. I think (but could equally be wrong as I know different apps pull the info in differently) the expectation (certainly mine) would be that the font info appears in weight and style order, as shown in FontBook... For Example... I can't recall but isn't this how it works in the v1 apps? Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
Alfred Posted June 27, 2024 Posted June 27, 2024 46 minutes ago, Hangman said: I can't recall but isn't this how it works in the v1 apps? I only have the variable versions of Fraunces (Regular and Italic) installed here. Since v1 only supports static fonts, it’s impossible to compare v1.x and v2.5 without uninstalling the variable fonts and replacing them with their static counterparts. 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)
Staff Affinity Info Bot Posted October 22, 2024 Staff Posted October 22, 2024 The issue "inconsistent font trait display order" (REF: AF-3654) has been fixed by the developers in the latest beta build (2.6.0.2805). The fix is planned for inclusion in the next customer release. Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions. If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.
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