Some fonts have more styles like bold, italic and even more. Hod do you define your font to be the same font but in a different style?
/Mattias Gordon
If you have the Professional Edition you can use the Glyph Transform Wizard to change a regular font to italic, or a bold font style to bold italic.
Otherwise, manually change the settings on the Classifcation Tab of the Format, Settings, dialogue.
You will, of course, have to modify the glyphs to suit the style, though the italic transform will slant all of the glyphs to the desire angle. Converting an oblque font to a true italic style is not too hard, as not all glyphs have to be redesigned. Changing a regular font to a bold font is much harder, though the transform wizard can do some of the work for you.
Thanks, I found that settings.
In that window you can also make changes of weight and width.
There are several choices of your style. How do you use them?
See this thread on how to calculate the Panose weight of a font. I don’t think that setting is essential to get right — not yet anyway.
Its the classification as bold, italic, or bold italic that determines which type style is selected in applications when formatting text with bold or italic attributes.
All we really need is four type styles:
My Font Regular.ttf
My Font Italic.ttf
My Font Bold.ttf
My Font Bold Italic.ttf
And for the right one to be selected when formatting text. The Auto Font-naming wizard will use the classification fields in naming the font. Try changing the Font Design settings and running the wizard without actually modifying the glyphs at all.