Fontforge change postscript font name for mac#
Fontforge change postscript font name windows#

Sorry, yes, I misspoke on both the name table 3 thing and the platform ID thing. (Note to others reading this: I may have left out some stuff that applies to larger families.)

Fontforge change postscript font name windows#

This will kind of work, but it's better not to use a value below '250', otherwise Windows may do a fake bold thing to it. Weight should be the same as entry 6, the 'OpenType Family Name' (Note: weight only, don't add 'Italic' if it's italic)įinally, you've got '100' as the weight value for your Thin weight. FamilyName should be the same as entry 1, the 'Family Name' FullName should be the same as entry 3, the 'Full Name'

Font name should be the same as entry 6, the 'PostScript Name' However, if your font is CFF OpenType (and yours are), then make sure the CFF table has the right stuff too: This is the same as the second part in entry 6: This is the same as what you used for the family name in entry 6:įinally, name table entry 17 is the 'OpenType Style Name'. Name table entry 16 is the 'OpenType Family Name'.

Fontforge change postscript font name for mac#

They are not needed for Mac because the Windows entries are also used there in every case that matters. There are a set of name table entries for each.įor the next two entries, only include them for platform 1 (Windows).

So, for name table 5:Īll of this goes for both platform 1 (Windows) and platform 3 (Mac). Also: only letters and one hyphen are allowed, and the hyphen must be between the two parts-no underscores, like you used. So for this, we can use 'Agent' as the family name and the weight names for the style name. Other apps, can use more than two weights. The preceding entries are only used by simple Windows apps like Office. This is normally the family name + a hyphen + the style name. Name table entry 6 is the 'PostScript Name'. So, for name table entry 3, enter the same as name table 1: However, if the style is 'Regular', then it's identical to entry 1.

Usually, this is entry 1 combined with entry 2. Name table entry 2 for all four fonts will be 'Regular'. None of your fonts are italic, and we're not using bold (see above). The entries you have ('700', '_medium', '_thin', and '500') will not work. Name table entry 2 can only be one of four things: 'Regular', 'Italic', 'Bold', or 'Bold Italic'. To avoid confusion, and to make it so that they all show up in Windows font menus, I would just skip the whole regular/bold thing and enter them under four different family names for name table entry 1: Not only that, none of your fonts is called either 'Agent' or 'Agent Regular'. In your fonts, you've got four roman fonts with the same 'Family Name', 'Agent'. Only two roman (non-italic) fonts can have the same 'Family Name' for name table entry 1. Name table entry 1 is the 'Family Name', name table 2 is the 'Style Name'. This all happens in name table entries 1 and 2. For Windows, you can have at most two weights in a family (two roman, two italic), technically regular and bold, but they don't literally need to be 'regular' and 'bold'. styles to have the same name ID 16 as the other styles.įirst of all, you've got four different weights. Name ID 21 and 22 (WWS Family and WWS Style) can be used for other style variation than weight, width, slant (WWS), like if you want your Rounded, Angular, Caption, etc. The Name ID 16 and 17 (Preferred Family and Preferred Style) allow for more members in a family.Īnother set of names were added to the OpenType specs more recently. The main issue is grouping font families in groups of 4 for Name ID 1 and 2 (Family and Style) for the Windows platform. Weight = OT Name ID 2 (TTF Names: 'Styles (Subfamily)') Name For Humans = OT Name ID 4 (TTF Names: 'Fullname') 'Family' is name ID 1, 'Styles (Subfamily)' is name ID 2, 'Preferred Family' is name ID 16, 'Preferred Style' is name ID 17, etc as they are described in the specs. The TTF Names in FontForge are the OpenType specs’ name IDs from OpenType Specifications - The Naming table (see the Name IDs table).