Is there any logic to the font menu order in the native OSX font panel? Only families that consist of R/I/B/BI styles appear to be sorted logically, but in all other cases the menu is one big mess... (And yes – I have defined the proper weight values in the font info.)
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1. Generate the font with style name "Regularx"
2. TTX it
3. find-replace "Regularx" with "Regular"
4. un-TTX it
(I stopped doing this a while ago, since it is against the OT naming standards. Standards are good, even if I don't agree with them.)
I wonder why it’s so hard for Apple to get it right—after all, there are two listing conventions in fonts: name and numbers, and the number method (from 100–1000) perfectly describes the foundry’s prefered sequence. Why wouldn’t they use that?