Safe naming scheme to avoid typefaces not showing up in applications menus
Claudio Piccinini
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I am posting this here even if it might be a FontLab VI related question because I am not sure whether it’s a naming problem or a glitch.
I am currently planning a naming scheme for a family I am designing and I started with two weights, one aimed at textsetting in small sizes (8-10pt) and another aimed at mid-range titling (about 36pt).
When I created the files I used the scheme I post below. For the titling version I used "TL" and for the text one "TX". But when I test the fonts in Pages only one shows up.
Eventually I will be adding condensed and compressed versions, for which I wished to follow a scheme like:
- Typeface Compressed TL Regular
- Typeface Compressed TL Bold
etc.
Do you have any idea on why they do not show up? Sorry for the newbie question but often I am still fairly unfamiliar with even the basic technical issues.
I am currently planning a naming scheme for a family I am designing and I started with two weights, one aimed at textsetting in small sizes (8-10pt) and another aimed at mid-range titling (about 36pt).
When I created the files I used the scheme I post below. For the titling version I used "TL" and for the text one "TX". But when I test the fonts in Pages only one shows up.
Eventually I will be adding condensed and compressed versions, for which I wished to follow a scheme like:
- Typeface Compressed TL Regular
- Typeface Compressed TL Bold
etc.
Do you have any idea on why they do not show up? Sorry for the newbie question but often I am still fairly unfamiliar with even the basic technical issues.
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Typeface Compressed TL Regular is fine. However, if you plan to add the Extrabold, it should be a 'problem' since names should ideally not be longer than 31 characters. Try also to think about the Italics addition later on... With that in mind, you might want to abbreviate 'Compressed' and 'Condensed', e.g. Cond
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Thanks, but this does not solve my current problem, i.e. having Pages (or other applications?) not showing the two ("Typeface TX" and "Typeface TL"). :-(0
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I would like to point out that you will have to educate your customers what "TX" and "TL" mean because they do not have standard meanings in the type world.
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sorry Claudio. Well, I'm not using FL6 so, can't be of much help... Being Pages an app for the Macintosh, my guess is that you'd need to cover the ID's related to tha name table / mac names (ID=18?).0
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George Thomas said:I would like to point out that you will have to educate your customers what "TX" and "TL" mean because they do not have standard meanings in the type world.
@Rafael: Thanks, but I have the impression it’s not a Fontlab problem, rather of how I named them, or the name table (of which I am completely ignorant). Waiting for some help… :-(0 -
Update: It seems this might just be a bug or something related to Pages: by selecting the fonts from the system menu (Command-T) they show, and until they have been used once, they also appear in Pages wysiwyg menu.0
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Might be an issue with font caches, also.Why not stick with more or less established terms like "Text", "Subhead", "Heading", "Titling" and "Display" instead of the arbitrary abbreviations?1
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Johannes Neumeier said:Might be an issue with font caches, also.Why not stick with more or less established terms like "Text", "Subhead", "Heading", "Titling" and "Display" instead of the arbitrary abbreviations?
The abbreviations are not arbitrary, at least in my intention. I have toyed for years with the idea of abbreviations because they are shorter. Clearly they are not explanatory as full names would be.
Nonetheless, "Heading", "Headline", "Titling" and "Display" seem also to be used in a somewhat arbitrary way, so I am checking the meaning of the words across languages to see what satisfies me.
The recent discussion about terminology for the basic weights ("Regular" vs. "Normal" or "Book") is indeed very interesting.1 -
@Claudio Piccinini have you updated to macOS Catalina?0
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Rafael Saraiva said:@Claudio Piccinini have you updated to macOS Catalina?
But I do have a MacBook which probably supports it, I wish to keep the OSs as much consistent as possible through devices, though.0
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