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Members of the Futura family on my PC are just fine (I was just using that as an example).Welcome to the Chocolatey Community Package Repository! The packages found in this section of the site are provided, maintained, and moderated by the community. Bare in mind, that this is not a problem with most font families that you will use on your PC, and in fact, all twelve Hopefully this information will save you from some frustration. You may have to change them several times on each font for the different language settings. Just make sure that the family names are unique. Rename them (use names from the font menu on Type 2.2) so that all the family members have a different family name.įutura (family), Condensed (subfamily), Futura Condensed (fullname) PS: You can use my freeware font editor Type light, which was released after this article was I don't know of any freeware program available for renaming fonts Otherwise you will need a font editor to rename your fonts.

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The others, then just install Futura Condensed. So you really need Futura Condensed - the client says Arial Narrow just doesn't look right! What do you do? Well if you only need the Condensed version, and not Upon conversion to a PC font, the names have not been changed to suit the quirks of your PC.

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Mac's (another point to the Mac supporters). The only explanation that I can offer is that sometimes PC fonts were born on a Mac, and presumably this is not a problem on

I do not pretend to be an expert in typography, nor am I even a type designer, but years ofĮxperience in the printing industry has shown me otherwise. We'll knowing this, you would think that nobody would name their fonts this way. If it doesn't work, why are fonts named this way? True, but most PC programs will use the default process for enumerating fonts, which only can distinguish between bold, italic and bold italic family members. 'But this is not a PC problem because I can select Futura Condensed using Adobe Photoshop on my PC'. But what if you want to use Futura Condensed (which If you wantįutura Regular, Bold, Italic or Bold Italic, that's fine (just use the bold and italic buttons). You will find that you only have one Futura option on your drop down font selection. Install these fonts on your PC, then open Microsoft Word. So what's the problem then? Well, say you have the entire Futura family of fonts, say that all of the fonts have Futura as their family name (internally) and that the subfamilies areĪll named appropriately. For example Univers 55 is normal Roman and Univers 63 is Medium Extended. You will find a typeface that has this many family members, typically there will just be a few, or several.Īdrian Frutiger (yes, designer of the Frutiger font) invented a numbering system 2 (which I find particularly useful) for classifying the weight and That leaves us with many, many possibilities! Of course, it is highly unlikely that Remembering that any weight and width can be combined, and that each could also be italic or not. W eight: Thin, Extra-light (Ultra-light), Light, Normal (Roman or Regular), Medium, Semi-bold (Demi-bold), Bold, Extra-Bold (Ultra-bold), Black (Heavy). Width: Ultra-condensed, Extra-condensed, Condensed, Semi-condensed, Medium (regular), Semi-expanded, Expanded, Extra-expanded, Ultra-expanded. I come from a large familyĪ particular typeface may have many family members, here is a list of the (standard) possibilities:

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The convention is: full name = family + subfamily unless subfamily is regular, in which case full name = family name. Three entries are of concern to us here: the Family (Futura), the subfamily (Semibold) and the full Inside a True Type font isĪ table that contains all the naming information. When I am talking about a font's name, I am referring to the font's internal name, as opposed to its filename (which can be easily changed). The problem is that many PC applications,Īnd Microsoft Word is one of them, have difficulty distinguishing between family members if they haven't been named in a PC-friendly way.

So, for example, Futura Condensed, Futura Bold, Futura Semibold Condensed, are all members of the Futura family. 'A font family is typically a group of related fonts which vary only in weight, orientation, width, etc, but not design'. What's in a name? Not much you might think, but when it comes to naming fonts on your PC, things aren't as simple as you might imagine. By Allan Murray | Posted September 08, 2007

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