I want to give my next typefamily an Oblique (manually perfected, mind you), and an Italic (more cursive-like) counterpart.
SS01 is already taken by some other feature, so I would have to put the obliques/italics in SS02, which is not ideal.
I could have a style called Name Bold, Name Bold Oblique, and one called Name Bold Italic. Are there any known/expected software issues with such a naming scheme? It would also create a total of 21 styles (7 weights) which is maybe a bit annoying.
Alternatively, I could make a subfamily called Name Oblique, that only has the Obliques in it. Or, a family for the Uprights, one for the Italics, and one for the Obliques.
Any ideas?
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It's good to take advantage of the Italic toggle, so not three seperate sets. But if you do implement two sets I would put the oblique as the primary and the cursive as the side family (although that does depend on the style of the upright).
So many otherwise excellent typographers don’t even know that Stylistic Sets exist.
But you can still include the Obliques as a Stylistic Set in the Italics (and vice versa).
I imagine that for the end user, it would be most useful to have two families with both uprights and italics (meaning the same uprights are included twice). That way, I could just call it Name 1 and Name 2 (much like Auto). Makes sense?
To me, it is more of a why create both italics and obliques. What would a person purchasing a family expect? Would they expect a stylistic set for the obliques versus a family member? In this case, I think I would expect a family member.
That said, in my current font, a historical repro, there were examples where both slanted and a weird mix of true italics were used in print. And so I did put the obliques into the regular/semi/bold styles as a stylistic set.
Mike
> To me, it is more of a why create both italics and obliques.
Because the former can ruin the "mood" set by the upright.
I can say that most of the designers I worked with, were not aware of stylistic sets.
But with the new adobe CC update I think it's hard to ignore the popup with alternates.
Personally I would apply a stylistic set, but based on my experience I would do what @Jasper de Waard suggested.
Perhaps the oblique should then be named «Slanted»? I could imagine that fewer apps have knee-jerk reactions to that than to «Italic» and «Oblique».
(Incidentally, is it a coincidence that some of the «Italic 1» fonts of the Auto family are currently not displaying correctly on MyFonts?)
Another example would be Supria Sans, which has separate “Italic” and “Oblique” styles: https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/hvdfonts/supria-sans/ I wonder if Hannes has run into any trouble with this.
That said, Tom's warning is probably appropriate: it would likely create problems in some existing software.