So you would normally see “Avenir Next Pro” as a single entry, corresponding to regular, italic, bold, and bold italic, then a single entry for “Avenir Pro Medium”, from which you can also obtain “Avenir Pro Medium Italic” by activating the italic button. Medium, Semibold, etc., will instead appear as wholly different families in the font list on Windows. Regular is the weight you get when neither bold nor italic is enabled, Bold is the weight you get when only bold is enabled, Bold Italic is the weight you get when both bold and italic are enabled, and Italic is the weight you get when only italic is enabled.įonts that fall outside of this naming scheme, e.g. “Avenir Next Pro”, with the four weights obtained by way of the B and I buttons for bold and italic.
Windows gives special treatment to Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic, and in general these four styles will get folded together into a single entry in the font list, e.g. Unfortunately this kind of problem is not uncommon on Windows, which has a pretty rudimentary way of handling fonts. Since I’d like to use font weight ‘bold’ for titles in Dorico, I’d really like to have this issue resolved.ĭoes anyone have an idea what could be the cause of this issue?Ĭan you please list the exact names of the font files that you have purchased? I’m surprised that MS Word and MuseScore are able to display the font weight ‘bold’ (see attachments ‘Word’ and ‘MuseScore’ in next message), and Dorico and Sibelius can’t. All with the same result: all font files seem to be installed correctly, but font weight ‘bold’ does not perform as expected in Excel and in Sibelius (I couldn’t test Dorico on laptop, for obvious reasons).
I also tested on a laptop with Windows 10 and another laptop with Windows 7. I’ve tried ttf-files instead of otf-files. When I reported this to the helpdesk, they tested in Excel, but the answer was that on their system the font weights were performing normally. But when I chose to export to pdf, the font weight ‘bold’ was displayed correctly in the resulting pdf-file, and was printed correctly on paper when printing from Adobe Acrobat to printer.
When printing to pdf (with an Adobe printer driver) it wasn’t displayed correctly in the resulting pdf-file. But what I discovered was quite interesting: font weight ‘bold’ wasn’t displayed correctly on screen and wasn’t printed correctly on paper. I know, Excel is not the best program to test font usage. In my search for a situation which the helpdesk would be able to reconstruct, I again encountered the same problem, this time in MS Excel (see attachment ‘Excel’ in next message). I had my doubts, since while testing, I encountered the same problem in Sibelius (see attachment ‘Sibelius’). Anyway, they assumed the problem was situated within Dorico. They couldn’t reconstruct the problem in Dorico, since they don’t have access to the program. With ‘correct’ I mean in proportion to the other font weights (see attachment ‘Dorico’). It doesn’t display correctly on screen, and neither is it printed correctly on paper. But in Dorico, there’s an issue with font weight ‘bold’. This works fine in MS Word and in MuseScore. In those programs, font weight ‘demi’ is obtained by selecting font weight ‘regular’ and applying font style bold, font weight ‘bold’ is obtained by selecting font weight ‘medium’ and applying font style bold. All other programs I tested display only 6 of 8 font weights (see attachment ‘fonts’). In Adobe InDesign (and Illustrator), all font weights are displayed as separate items, and can be selected directly. To save money, I purchased the a basic family pack, which contains 8 font weights, each with their italic variant.
The font is called ‘Avenir Next Pro’, supplied by. Recently, I purchased a font with the intent to use it for different applications, amongst which Dorico.
This is a question directed to text font specialists.