Italic of typeface in Font Book but not showing in InDesign

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My new typeface family (9 weights) is working, but the 5 italic versions are in Font Book but are not appearing in the menu of the latest version of InDesign 2022 17.2.1
I have tried all day to solve this yesterday
Any tips? Has anyone else had this problem?

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Multiple potential issues here.

What are your name settings? Style linking settings? See the Naming tutorial for details.

Do not install the fonts for testing. You may run into a font cache problem. Best to uninstall, empty the font caches, and restart your Mac. Read here how:

If you want to test in Adobe apps, it is much better to use the Adobe Fonts folder:

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For the Sans—

Family Name: LDN Queenstown Sans
Master Name: UltraLight
Style Name: UltraLight

Style Linking
Empty

For the Sans Italic—

Family Name: LDN Queenstown Sans
Master Name: UltraLightItalic
Style Name: UltraLightItalic

Style Linking
Italic (tick) of UltraLight

Thanks

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Hello, in case you feel comfortable doing so, you can send me the .glyphs file(s) and I will have a look. If it’s not a font cache problem, it is most probably some error in the instance names (which can admittedly get quite confusing sometimes).

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The naming setup looks alright to me. I would only suggest Ultralight and Ultralight Italic as style names, respectively. Separating the word Italic with a space from the rest. No need to use camelcase.

Check if you have the full required charset, especially gravecomb exporting in your italics. See this thread:

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That’s excellent. Thanks all solved. It was a Cache problem after splitting a huge typeface family into Sans and Serif versions. And now I’m saving directly into a newly created Adobe Fonts folder. It worked.

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