Windows Control Panel fields: “Designed For”, “Category” and “Manufacturer”

Belleve Invis
Belleve Invis Posts: 269
edited June 2016 in Type Design Technique & Theory
I am trying to make these fields displayed in the Control Panel, but I have absolutely no clue about them.
Adobe's Source Sans Pro does not have them either. How to get them work?

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  • Erwin Denissen
    Erwin Denissen Posts: 315
    Do take a look at fms_metadata.xml in Windows fonts folder. It is hidden and read-only, so not easy to access.
  • Ray Larabie
    Ray Larabie Posts: 1,467
    If you want to look at it, open a command prompt and type...
    cd\windows\fonts
    notepad fms_metadata.xml
    If you need to see other hidden files
    dir /A:H /B
    It looks like this.
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <MetaFile Type="System" Version="1.0.0.0">
      <Font Family="Marlett">
        <Meta Name="Scripts">Zsym;</Meta>
      </Font>
      <Font Family="Andalus">
        <Meta Name="Category">1</Meta>
        <Meta Name="Scripts">Arab;</Meta>
        <Meta Name="Vendor">Glyph Systems</Meta>
      </Font>
      <Font Family="Arial Unicode MS">
        <Meta Name="Category">0</Meta>
        <Meta Name="Scripts">Latn;Grek;Cyrl;Armn;Geor;Arab;Hebr;</Meta> 
        <Meta Name="Vendor">Microsoft Corporation</Meta>
      </Font>
      <Font Family="Terminal">
        <Meta Name="Category">0</Meta>
        <Meta Name="Scripts">Latn;</Meta>
        <Meta Name="Vendor">Microsoft Corporation</Meta>
      </Font>
      <Font Family="Courier">
        <Meta Name="Category">0</Meta>
        <Meta Name="Scripts">Latn;</Meta>
        <Meta Name="Vendor">Microsoft Corporation</Meta>
      </Font>
      <Font Family="Fixedsys">
        <Meta Name="Category">0</Meta>
        <Meta Name="Scripts">Latn;</Meta>
        <Meta Name="Vendor">Microsoft Corporation</Meta>
      </Font>
    and so forth. 
  • Belleve Invis
    Belleve Invis Posts: 269
    @Ray Larabie
    Thank you.
  • Dave Crossland
    Dave Crossland Posts: 1,507
    How is that file populated?

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