Re: Selecting fonts using the built-in simplefonts module

[Pavneet Arora <pavneet_arora@waroc.com>]

Dear Joerg,

Thanks for your response.  I am just going through the full thread, but 
in response to your question, I am using Ubuntu with Unity.  I was using 
the GUI Font Viewer to inspect the font, but otfinfo is more to my 
liking.

Having said that, here is its output with the '-a' option (-a, --family                 
Report font’s family name.):

$ otfinfo -a Junction-light.otf
Junction Light

So, it would seem that Junction Light is a valid 'expanded name' in the 
Junction Master series, although, of course, not the true family name.

I am still digesting further the responses by Pablo and Wolfgang.

Warm regards.


On 29Mar15, Jörg Weger wrote:
> Your mistake was that you did not use the correct font family name
> in the third pair of square brackets. It is simply “Junction”.
> 
> I have yet to find out if ConTeXt itself can show a font’s true family name.
> 
> On Linux I am either  using a command line tool called otfinfo (that
> also shows me what opentype features are there) or I open the font
> with fontforge (if I want to find out more about the details of
> opentype features) or I open it with mate-font-viewer (fork of
> gnome-font-viewer). In the latter the family name is shown in the
> first line on the right.
> 
> Name: Junction
> 
> What desktop environment are you using?
> 
> 
> As far as I have understood by default the built in font-selection
> module uses the “family members” named “Regular” and “Bold” of a
> selected font family, e.g. in
> 
> \definefontfamily[mainface][ss][Junction]
> 
> \ss gives Junction Regular and \ss \bf gives Junction Bold
> 
> If you want to use different font weights you have to define them
> yourself in a fourth pair of square brackets.
> 
> The League of Movable Type’s Junction font family offers three
> weights: Light, Regular and Bold.
> 
> Assuming that you want to use Junction Light as your “regular sans
> serif” font and Junction Regular as your “bold sans serif” you
> define for sans serif:
> 
> \definefontfamily[mainface][ss][Junction]
> 	[regularfont=Junction Light, boldfont=Junction Regular]
> 
> Now \ss should give Junction Light and \ss \bf should give Junction Regular.
> 
> You can define italics as well, as the following definition for
> Google’s Roboto shows where I am using light and black instead of
> regular and bold. (Junction does not offer italic or slanted, that
> is why I use Roboto as an example of a family with many weights and
> styles. https://developer.android.com/design/style/typography.html
> should have the reworked 2014 version for download.)
> 
> \definefontfamily[mainface][ss][Roboto]
> 	[regularfont=Roboto Light, italicfont=Roboto Light Italic,
> 	 boldfont=Roboto Black, bolditalicfont=Roboto Black Italic]
> 
> (You could even mix weights and styles from different font families.)
> 
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> 
> Greetings Jörg

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