Naming (and font properties) for a font family
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 2:44 pm
Okay! Here's a super-quickie sample of my masterpiece(s) -- er, well, in my own mind they're masterpieces, anyway (your mileage may vary) -- just a very simple overview of what my four fonts are that I've been working on for years now...
I haven't got the slightest clue what to do about how to go about naming them in the font properties box so that they're all together. As it is, I can get the regular and italic fonts together in the same family (so that when you're using them in software, you can select "Alde" and then from there choose "regular" or "italic"), but I don't know how to get the caps font, nor the blackletter font, included within that "Alde" group, too.
Like, to me, I think it would be ideal to see "Alde" listed as my font family, and then from there you can choose
- Regular
- Italic
- Caps
- Blackletter
...but when I try to lump them together like that, with "Alde" as my family, strange things start happening when I specify "Caps" and "Blackletter" as the subfamily (typing those in manually, as neither of those options are in the drop-down menu) for those two respective fonts.
When I do that, and install them, using the type tool in Photoshop I see "Alde" in the font list, and then the usual additional menu which includes regular, italic, and also blackletter -- but the caps is nowhere to be found -- not in the Alde family, nor as a separate font elsewhere (that I could find, anyway). It's like it just disappeared.
But then in MainType (v. 2.1), when I look at my fonts in there, I see all four of them, but the blackletter one displays like the regular one! It comes out just fine in Photoshop, looking as it should. Here's a screenshot of that -- the highlighted one is what should be displaying as my blackletter font..
Should I not be trying to do it this way, trying to lump them all together like that? Should those other two fonts -- the caps and the blackletter -- really be considered entirely different, separate fonts, not even of the same "family"? To me, they are all the same family -- they're historical fonts created from the type designs of the 16th-century printer, John Alde, so I would think that they all "belong together," and that people would use them together, but maybe I'm wrong about what a font "family" really is, I don't know.
Thanks a bunch, in advance, as always!
I haven't got the slightest clue what to do about how to go about naming them in the font properties box so that they're all together. As it is, I can get the regular and italic fonts together in the same family (so that when you're using them in software, you can select "Alde" and then from there choose "regular" or "italic"), but I don't know how to get the caps font, nor the blackletter font, included within that "Alde" group, too.
Like, to me, I think it would be ideal to see "Alde" listed as my font family, and then from there you can choose
- Regular
- Italic
- Caps
- Blackletter
...but when I try to lump them together like that, with "Alde" as my family, strange things start happening when I specify "Caps" and "Blackletter" as the subfamily (typing those in manually, as neither of those options are in the drop-down menu) for those two respective fonts.
When I do that, and install them, using the type tool in Photoshop I see "Alde" in the font list, and then the usual additional menu which includes regular, italic, and also blackletter -- but the caps is nowhere to be found -- not in the Alde family, nor as a separate font elsewhere (that I could find, anyway). It's like it just disappeared.
But then in MainType (v. 2.1), when I look at my fonts in there, I see all four of them, but the blackletter one displays like the regular one! It comes out just fine in Photoshop, looking as it should. Here's a screenshot of that -- the highlighted one is what should be displaying as my blackletter font..
Should I not be trying to do it this way, trying to lump them all together like that? Should those other two fonts -- the caps and the blackletter -- really be considered entirely different, separate fonts, not even of the same "family"? To me, they are all the same family -- they're historical fonts created from the type designs of the 16th-century printer, John Alde, so I would think that they all "belong together," and that people would use them together, but maybe I'm wrong about what a font "family" really is, I don't know.
Thanks a bunch, in advance, as always!