Font variants as separate fonts on Mojave (unintentionally)

Since I updated to Mojave i've noticed that whenever I try to install font families with several variants (like Light, Ultra Light, Black, etc), most of the time Font Book reads them as separate fonts. This is a problem I first noticed in a fellow designer's macbook and I thought he was doing something wrong. I didn't suffer from this symptom back in El Capitan; for example I know had the Montserrat family installed as a single family with all the variants within Montserrat. I mostly use open source fonts, that's why I didn't back'em up when I erased my hard drive. As you can see, it happens with most of them on my list, but there are some exceptions like Open Sans which got properly installed.


Anyone else is having this "bug"? I'm finding it utterly annoying.


MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Jun 13, 2019 5:49 AM

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Jun 13, 2019 10:00 AM in response to kikedose

The internal names are a complete disaster. You should, technically, be seeing separate family names as show below in bold text. But because the internal names are such a mess, font managers and apps are doing their best to try and make sense of how they should be grouped.


Under High Sierra, Quark XPress, the Adobe apps, Office 365 and others I tried simply listed all fonts under one family name each of Merriweather, Montserrat and Montserrat Alternates. But below is the jumble of actual internal names:


Merriweather family


Regular - style name is Regular. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.

Bold - style name is Bold. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.

Bold Italic - style name is Bold Italic. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.

Italic - style name is Italic. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.


Merriweather Light family


Light - style name is Regular

Light Italic - style name is Italic. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.


Merriweather Black family


Black - style name is Regular

Black Italic - style name is Italic


Monserrat family


Bold - style name is bold

Bold Italic - style name is bold italic

Italic - style name is Italic

Regular - style name is Regular. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.


Montserrat Black family


Black Italic - style name is Italic

Black - style name is Regular. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.


Montserrat Medium family


Medium - style name is Regular

Medium Italic - style name is Italic


Montserrat ExtraBold family


ExtraBold - style name is Regular

ExtraBold Italic - style name is Italic


Montserrat ExtraLight family


ExtraLight - style name is Regular

ExtraLight Italic - style name is Italic


Montserrat Light family


Light - style name is Regular

Light Italic - style name is Italic


Montserrat SemiBold family


SemiBold - style name is Regular

SemiBold Italic - style name is Italic. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.


Montserrat Thin family


Thin - style name is Regular

Thin Italic - style name is Italic. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.


Montserrat Alternatives family


Bold - style name is bold. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.

Bold Italic - style name is Bold Italic. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.

Italic - style name is Italic. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.

Regular - style name is Regular. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.


Montserrat Alternates Light family


Light - style name is Regular

Light Italic - style name is Italic. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.


Montserrat Alternates Medium family


Medium - style name is Regular

Medium Italic - style name is Italic. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.


Montserrat Alternatives Black family


Black - style name is Regular

Black Italic - style name is Italic. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.


Montserrat Alternates SemiBold family


SemiBold - style name is Regular

SemiBold Italic - style name is Italic. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.


Montserrat Alternatives ExtraBold family


ExtraBold - style name is Regular

ExtraBold Italic - style name is Italic. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.


Montserrat Alternatives ExLight family


ExtraLight - style name is Regular. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.

ExtraLight Italic - style name is Italic. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.


Montserrat Alternates Thin family


Thin - style name is Regular

Thin Italic - style name is Italic. Full, Menu and FOND names do not match.

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