Export font with more family names from the same file

Glyphs
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Hei everyone!

I’m working on a font with 3 axes and I would like to export the OTFs with 5 different family names (like “FontName”, “FontName Display”, “FontName Rounded”,…), and each of them with their own styles (Regular, Medium, Bold,…).

Is there a parameter that i’s possible to use to change the family name to instances, without having to manually change it in the font tab every time?

I tried with the parameters “postscriptFullName” “postscriptFontName” and “Typographic Family name” but none of them work. It change the name of the file but in Adobe/Microsoft software it doesn’t work.

Thanks a lot!

2

Why don’t you make an instance for each static font you want to generate? You can even have all the instance permutations automatically generated by using Rainer’s Instance Cooker script.

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Hei thanks for the answer!
I have already created all the instances that I need, I just would like to change the name of the family, so that multiple font families are exported and not just one.
Something like this:

FontName-Regular
Font Name-Medium
FontName-Bold

FontName Display-Regular
FontName Display-Medium
FontName Display-Bold

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But why do it that way? Give me the reason.

5

Have you tried the parameter Localized Family Name? Add this to an instance and it will receive a custom family name.

6

Or create a Project with your Glyphs file and create all the instances you want.

7

When you want to put the families into different sub-menus in apps

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  • Ignore the ps font name, let Glyphs set it.
  • use localized family name and localized style name, that way you can still keep the normal style name for a variable font export.