Hello, everybody! I hope you’re doing well.
I’m posting this here as I’ve been struggling in the past few days while creating a variable font. I’m working on the width and weight axes, so I drew the extreme masters of both (although I’ve used the offset curve script feature to create the bold version).
The thing is: when I export and try it on Adobe’s programs, I can just change the width, not the weight (I have the two sliders, but only one works fine). The other thing is, If I export in OTF, I can select all my 4 weights (light, regular, semibold and bold), but when using the variable version, I have 6 weights to choose from and in the wrong order (for example semibold, regular, bold and light, from top to bottom).
I’m using the newest version of Glyphs and I don’t get what I’m doing wrong. I’ve followed tutorials and even used one of the examples posted around here to guide me through the process. I would love to get your insight into this issue.
Thank you.
I hope you have a nice week ahead of you.
Oh, I never thought you would be so quick, I was working on the screenshots, haha. I’m sorry, I’m new to this and not quite aware of how this works, but I’m an enthusiast.
The masters:
the for masters need to sit on a rectangle and one master in the centre.
You mixed the numbers quite a bit.
Something like a Regular in your case.
then you can do:
Regular: 500/5
Condensed: 500/3
Light: 300/5
Bold: 700/5
Expanded: 500/3
Or you do:
Light Condensed: 300/3
Light Expanded: 300/7
Bold Condensed: 700/3
Bold Expanded: 700/7
