How to create a custom weight class between two default classes

[Norberg (Andreas Norberg)]

I dont know if this is the right approach or not, but here goes:

(I’m using Glyphs 3.0.2.)

I would like to add a custom weight class for one instance (Regular Text, 450) that sits right between the Regular (400) and the Medium (500) weight. Adding 450 as a value in the Axes Coordinates → Weight field creates a font file that looks as intended, no problems there.

However, even though the font looks good I still have two problems: Adobe applications order fonts (as I understand it) based on weightclass values. Problem is that I can’t seem to rename the weightclass from “Regular (400)” to “Regular Text (450)” in order to create a custom weight class for this specific instance. So I get this sorting, since although the the “Regular” and “Regular Text” fonts differ in weight, they share the same weight class.

Second problem with this approach is that Win10 doesn’t seem to understand 450 as a weight between 400 and 500, instead it displays the Regular Text weight as a seperate “family”:

Should I give up on this approach and instead use the default weight classes and values, and play around with the Axes Coordinates / Weight values and naming until I find the right balance…?

[GeorgSeifert]

You can just type in the Weight Class field. The Axes Coordinates are specifying the interpolation, not the weight class. The numbers can coincide but a lot of times don’t.

[Norberg (Andreas Norberg)]

Yep, I understand that the axes coordinates determines the interpolation, and the weight class determines font sorting (and other things as well, I suppose)

I added “450” in the Weight Class field for Regular Text - both problems I described earlier persists.

[mekkablue (Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer)]

For Adobe menus, the 450 style will be sorted between the 400 and 500. Best to check with the Adobe Fonts folder in order to exclude a potential font conflict. If the problem persists after exporting, I assume the error does not lie within the font but in the way the font is provided to the Adobe app.