Bug: Variable Style Names are ignored

[alexs (Alex)]

The variable font export seems to ignore Variable Style Names when writing some of the name table (see mixed Light vs Light1111):

variable style name test.glyphs (16.1 KB)

[SCarewe (Sebastian Carewe)]

"Variable style name" should also apply to name ID 1

Hello. I use the Variable style name parameter a lot when shortening style names for large families (such as XCnd Med It instead of Extracondensed Medium Italic). However, I have noticed that this parameter does not get applied when writing the name ID 1: If I set XLt as my variable style name for my instance Extralight (my variable font default), the resulting name ID 1 is MyfontVF Extralight. This means that I get the following FAIL in Fontbakery: MonaSansVF-Regular.ttf FAIL 'XLt' instan…

Is this what you are talking about?

[alexs (Alex)]

Yes, didn’t notice that in the search. Note that it’s not only ID 1

[GeorgSeifert]

I fixed it. Thanks for the file.