FontInfo problem

Alexander Orn

I've made a typeface with 10 weights in RoboFont, 5 roman and 5 italics. Now I'm trying to finish up the project and I've run aground during the testing. 
In InDesign there's a shortcut to make text italic by pressing cmd+shift+i, and it is suppose to toggle between the roman and italic version of the weight. 
But in my case it jumps all across the weights for some reason and I can't figure out why.
It goes like this if i use the command and have my regular selected: regular->medium italic->semibold->medium italic->regular.

I've tried to look through the documentation for RoboFont's font-info but it doesn't help. 
Does anyone know what makes the font reference to its roman/italic counterpart? Maybe I've missed something, this is the first time doing this is RoboFont.

Theunis de Jong

It sounds to me your problems most likely comes from incorrect or incomplete weight settings.

I don't know RoboFont but this page: http://doc.robofont.com/documentation/workspace/font-info/general/ shows the flags you need to indicate it's bold and/or italics, and this one: http://doc.robofont.com/documentation/workspace/font-info/opentype/ shows where you set weights (the OS/2 table). As you have an extended family, you may want to not rely on those tempting "Use Default Value" buttons and manually fill in everthing instead. (It's possible RoboFont is smarter than I'm assuming, but on the other hand, using the defaults may very well have caused your problem to start with.)

Looking through the documentation indeed will not help; you must verify and change the settings for (probably) your entire font family set. Also be warned to make sure InDesign uses the latest build of your fonts; clear its font caches in case of doubt.

Georg Seifert

We just published a overview about the naming. It is for Glyphs but the general idea is the same: https://glyphsapp.com/tutorials/naming

Erwin Denissen

It is also explained in the FontCreator manual:
http://www.high-logic.com/fontcreator/manual11/fonttype.html

and discussed at our forum:
https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7453

Alexander Orn

Very nice advice from all of you! Thank you very much