Font book: Fonts all named 'regular' despite having different weights

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Font book: Fonts all named 'regular' despite having different weights

Hi all,

I'm having the same problem described in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3133158 and https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7462536 -- but neither ever had a resolution, which is a bit worrying.

I'm new to Mac, and trying to install the fonts that my employer uses for its branding -- in this case, Gotham -- but I'm having an issue where they're installing fine (no errors), yet all the weights in the Gotham family are titled as Regular and Italic. As a result, Photoshop and other apps are unable to see the full and proper list of available weights.

I've tried the 'resolve duplicates' and 'validate font' options, and neither of these have shown any issues or errors.

I've also tried restarting the computer and restarting font book.

Could anybody please help me figure this out?

Posted on Aug 24, 2019 3:40 PM

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etresoft

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Aug 25, 2019 4:59 PM in response to mikedoeslife

I’m sorry, but I don’t have any fonts that exhibit this problem. I can’t tell how they may or may not appear. I know even less about fonts on your workmates’ machines. If those fonts are working fine, then the problem seems limited to your machine. Maybe delete the fonts that you have and get new ones. Fonts are quite complicated. There is not guarantee that your Gotham font is the same as someone else’s Gotham font.

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etresoft

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Aug 24, 2019 5:09 PM in response to mikedoeslife

It’s a problem with the font itself.

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Aug 24, 2019 8:50 PM in response to etresoft

I considered that, but here's the thing: When I was on Windows 10, the font worked fine. The rest of my team uses Mac, and they're all using the same font files that I'm trying to use. So if the issue is with the font file, it presumably wouldn't work fine for my workmates.

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mikedoeslife Author

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Aug 25, 2019 4:01 PM in response to etresoft

Ah, no... as described, the fact that the font weights aren't displaying with their correct names means that apps can't correctly list the fonts, which means I can't use them. So, effectively, the fonts don't work.

I would happily agree that the issue is with the font files, but as I said, the same files work fine on my workmates' Macbooks.

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etresoft

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Aug 25, 2019 7:07 AM in response to mikedoeslife

You have only said the font weight is mis-labelled. That doesn’t mean the font doesn’t work.

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Font book: Fonts all named 'regular' despite having different weights

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