Alternate names for Bold and Italic?

[Joseph_Staleknight]

Hi, I’m new to these forums, just having gotten Font Creator 6 Pro. I must say it works pretty well, having been made to be truly professional.

My question: How can I name my font so that it maps to “bold” and/or “italic” without using either term? I am considering making a font family with alternate naming for the varied weights/styles, and it would be great if I could match dignity to dignity with names. Of course, I searched the forums previously, but found nothing that could help.

Looking forward to hearing your responses!

-Joseph Staleknight

P.S. If anyone’s wondering, the font in question is an expy for French Script.

[Dave_Crosby]

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Welcome to Scanahand 9

To change the font type (for example from Regular to Bold) you need to change a few settings:

Things that need to be done in order to change an existing regular font to italic, bold or bold italic are:
• Mac Style fields - on the Format menu, click Settings and then click the Metrics tab.
• Font Design - on the Format menu, click Settings and then click on the Metrics tab.
• All font subfamily name fields in the Naming window. This can be done through the AutoNaming feature.
• For a bold or bold italic version:
• Set Classification Weight to Bold - on the Format menu, click Settings and then click on the General tab.
• Set PANOSE Weight to Bold - on the Format menu, click Settings and then click on the Classification tab.
• For an italic or bold italic version:
• Set Italic Angle to a negative value (e.g. -16.33) - on the Format menu, click Settings and then click on the Post tab.
• Set Caret Slope values through Calculate Rise and Run - on the Format menu, click Settings and then click on the General tab.

Also helpful is

Synchronising Four Typestyles

A task I frequently need to do is to check for inconsistencies between the four different type-styles of a font: regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. Some fonts may have an even larger family of styles. I used to check for errors by installing the fonts, opening a document in Serif Page Plus with a full range of characters, then I would select all and toggle italic and bold on/off to compare the type-styles. Any obvious errors would jump out, but still many were hard to spot. With the impro…

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

I looked into this earlier, but couldn’t see an obvious solution.

You can name a font as, e.g. FontName Oblique, instead of FontName Italic, in the Autonaming wizard, but it will still show up as FontName with family italic in application font dialogues.

What is the meaning of an “expy” font? I presume that you want the font style to change to this “expy” font when you select the italic attribute.

Since you have the Professional Edition, the Glyph Transform Italic script can be used to automate the steps in the previous post, that are required to change a font’s ID from Regular to Italic, or from Bold to Bold Italic.

[Joseph_Staleknight]

Well, I looked into it, but I found that the alternate name would not show up in applications like Photoshop; they would only say “Italic”.

As for the Expy font, I’d like to clarify that the name of it is Sinchtor, and I want the italic version to be called Kursiv, and the bold version Chalotte. That’s what the title of this topic meant.

Maybe that would be a good feature to include in the next version!