Hellow everyone,
I made yesterday new font for my handwriting in English, and i have a small problem.
when i type with my font in “word” (office), i can use the
italic (I) and the underline (U) but the bold (B) option do not response.
I am very satisfied with the font’s results, it is fantastic !
maybe this detail is important:
I did not install the font via the “fontcreator”. before every edit to my font, i delete the font from the
c\windows\fonts and open the font file from a copy that placed in another location with the “fontcreator”.
After I finish editing the font, i copy-paste the font back to the windows font’s folder (to test the changes in the
“word” application) , and so on and so forth.
How can i activate the bold option ?
thank’s a lot for any help.
have a good day.
Meir.
Have you created a bold version of your font?
Hi again and thank you for helping me.
In this link you can see if my font is defined as bold or as regular:
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also you can look at the font (this is scan of my handwriting) for impression.
if the font is in bold version, is it possible to change to regular version ? and then i can
use the bold option in the word application ?
thank’s,
Meir.
It would have been better to post the font, but it looks like a bold type style. If that’s the option you selected when starting a new font in FontCreator, then it will be bold. So, Word won’t make it any bolder. If it was defined as regular, it would. At a guess from your screenshot of the Font Test window, the actual weight of the font is somewhere between light and book — nowhere near bold.
The ideal solution is to create a proper bold type style, (and an italic version). Although faux fonts may look OK on the screen, they can lead to some very bloated PDF files and ugly results.
The easiest solution is to start a new font as Regular, then copy and paste all of the glyphs to the regular font. Save it with a new filename — e.g. Meirke Handwriting Regular.ttf — and install it. Uninstall the “Bold” version and Word should then make it bolder.
In format–> settings → panose, the weight is “bold” (number 
, and all the other
fields are “any” (number 0).
I didn’t understand, my font now is “faux font”, or it will be “faux font” if i will make it regular ?
another question, i did not install my new font via “fontcreator”. i just copy the file into the windows font’s folder
and everything works fine in office applications, like word. what is the advantage in using the “install font” via “fontcreator” ?
The Panose weight was set to 8 because you created the font as a bold font. In fact, the stroke weight is not heavy enough for a bold font. Windows doesn’t know that, if you tell it that its bold, it treats it as if it is bold, so pressing the bold key in your word-processor won’t make it any bolder.
Word doesn’t create a new Truetype Font just because you apply the bold attribute to some text — it just uses a crude algorithm to add some pixels to each stroke, resulting in a faux font (a false font).
Since your font is already defined as bold, applying the bold attribute in Word won’t make it any bolder. Making it italic, won’t make it italic either, it just slants it at a fixed angle. If you publish your document to a PDF file, all of the italic letters will be converted to curves, because there is no italic version of your font installed.
If you identify your font as “Regular” then Word will add pixels to make it bolder, but again, if you publish a document to PDF it will convert all of the bold text to curves because no real bold font exists. My Handwriting font does have real bold and italic type styles, but no bold italic.
Because Hattha has no bold italic type style, if I apply bold and italic attributes in any application, Windows will slant the bold typestyle, thus creating a faux font. Note that not only are the letter shapes wrong, the italic angle is also wrong. I haven’t got around to creating a bold italic typestyle yet as the font is not good enough for it to be worth the effort.
faux font.png
Installing fonts from FontCreator is generally more reliable.
I made another copy of my font, this time i chose “regular”.
Now everything o.k and i can emphasize parts of the sentence in word application.
thank you very much for your help, patience and good will.
I will be happy to ask again in this forum if there will be any problem.
Meir.