![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You have a situation where all the individual font files have the same internal name, so Windows can't differentiate them. It's these internal flags that allow you to create bold or italic text with a keyboard shortcut or style dropdown - the Foo Bold font file tells the OS "I am the Bold version of Foo," and so on. ![]() The variations tend to be called "styles." People coming newly (last 25 years or so) into design are so used to scaling a font in software that they forget every size of every style of a typeface was once drawn and made individually.įor a regular application (non-professional) to give you the usual "Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic" choices, the font files themselves must be individually named internally and the fact that they are associated is a specific internal flag. Technically and historically "Foo" is a typeface and "18 pt Foo Bold Condensed" is a font, but in the era of personal computers the definitions have blurred: a typeface is now often referred to as a "font" (even though you'll buy a particular style of that typeface as a "font" in any online store), particularly among non-typographers. The internal names of the fonts are in conflict and the flags that indicate connections between the different font files in a typeface family (Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic, etc.) are missing. The source of this problem is malformed font files. ![]()
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