Fontexplorer Stylenamewrong

Glyphs
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Hi,
I don’t get it to work that my fontstyle get the right name in the overview.

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You can see three Regular entries. But I need Semibold and Semilight.
I have filled up every form I found in the infowindow what I can found for Fontnames.
So can anyone give me a hint?

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That is a bug in FontExplore. You can make a font that fits better with software like this by adding the “Compatible name Table” custom parameter.

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Hi @GeorgSeifert ,
thanks but if I add the custom paramter I got the error

Die ausgewählten Dateien oder Ordner enthalten keine Mac OS X-Kompatiblen Fonts oder Sie haben keine Berechtigung diese zu lesen.

with otf and ttf.
If I delete Compatible name Table end export the font again it works again.
Whats wrong. I think it’s a problem in Fontexplorer.

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If I remember correctly, FEX is not under active development anymore. So there’s not much we can do, I’m afraid. Especially not on the side of Glyphs.

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Yes thats right. I think monotype want to have a SAS for fonts to earn easier money like all other crap monopoli$ts.
If nothing ca able from glyphs than it is how it is.
But I don’t understand why other fonts will be displayed nice with the correct style?

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You might be able to fix this with the “Export Mac Name Table Entries” parameter.

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Does that parameter work mittlerweile? Wasn’t that broken for ages?

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You would need to ask the people writing FontExplorer, or experiment with setting nameIDs and report back: name - Naming table (OpenType 1.9) - Typography | Microsoft Learn

Perhaps set nameIDs 16 & 17 (typographic names a.k.a. preferred names), perhaps ID 18 too? I don’t know, I haven’t had FEX installed for a long time.