Hallo, as the title said. I stumbled upon a strange bug (?).
I had a variable font with only 4 master being presence (ExLight, Black, ExLight Italic, and Black Italic) with no “Regular” master in-between, exported with these custom parameters below :
the strange thing is I cannot select one particular style. In this case, the style was ExtraLight Italic either via style menu dropdown or style linking shortcut, is it me adding some unnecessary parameter or just microsoft being silly as usual?.
Few additional notes:
- I ran the Mekkablue’s script Read and Write STAT Axis Values (OTVAR) upon exporting.
- The style linking and menu styles works on all Adobe apps (dunno if this is related or not about how the STAT table works
) - I installed the fonts on fontbook via directly paste the font to ~/Library/fonts, and yes I use the Adobe fonts folder test too. Both not conducted at the same time.
- Tested on microsoft office MacOS .
Few additional info:
Here’s the STAT table dump
<ttFont sfntVersion="\x00\x01\x00\x00" ttLibVersion="4.46">
<STAT>
<Version value="0x00010001"/>
<DesignAxisRecordSize value="8"/>
<!-- DesignAxisCount=2 -->
<DesignAxisRecord>
<Axis index="0">
<AxisTag value="wght"/>
<AxisNameID value="256"/> <!-- Weight -->
<AxisOrdering value="0"/>
</Axis>
<Axis index="1">
<AxisTag value="ital"/>
<AxisNameID value="257"/> <!-- Italic -->
<AxisOrdering value="1"/>
</Axis>
</DesignAxisRecord>
<!-- AxisValueCount=8 -->
<AxisValueArray>
<AxisValue index="0" Format="1">
<AxisIndex value="0"/>
<Flags value="0"/>
<ValueNameID value="17"/> <!-- ExtraLight -->
<Value value="200.0"/>
</AxisValue>
<AxisValue index="1" Format="3">
<AxisIndex value="0"/>
<Flags value="2"/> <!-- ElidableAxisValueName -->
<ValueNameID value="2"/> <!-- Regular -->
<Value value="400.0"/>
<LinkedValue value="700.0"/>
</AxisValue>
<AxisValue index="2" Format="1">
<AxisIndex value="0"/>
<Flags value="0"/>
<ValueNameID value="259"/> <!-- Medium -->
<Value value="500.0"/>
</AxisValue>
<AxisValue index="3" Format="1">
<AxisIndex value="0"/>
<Flags value="0"/>
<ValueNameID value="261"/> <!-- SemiBold -->
<Value value="600.0"/>
</AxisValue>
<AxisValue index="4" Format="1">
<AxisIndex value="0"/>
<Flags value="0"/>
<ValueNameID value="263"/> <!-- Bold -->
<Value value="700.0"/>
</AxisValue>
<AxisValue index="5" Format="1">
<AxisIndex value="0"/>
<Flags value="0"/>
<ValueNameID value="265"/> <!-- Black -->
<Value value="900.0"/>
</AxisValue>
<AxisValue index="6" Format="3">
<AxisIndex value="1"/>
<Flags value="2"/> <!-- ElidableAxisValueName -->
<ValueNameID value="2"/> <!-- Regular -->
<Value value="0.0"/>
<LinkedValue value="1.0"/>
</AxisValue>
<AxisValue index="7" Format="1">
<AxisIndex value="1"/>
<Flags value="0"/>
<ValueNameID value="257"/> <!-- Italic -->
<Value value="1.0"/>
</AxisValue>
</AxisValueArray>
<ElidedFallbackNameID value="2"/> <!-- Regular -->
</STAT>
</ttFont>
And last question unrelated to the issue above, why don’t glyphs style linked the italic values on the STAT table to the “Regular” name out of the box. Why link the italic to “Roman” ?.
Thanks!.