Inkscape

can't use weight 250 font variant

Bug #1655512 reported by Krzysztof Blachnicki
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Bug Description

When I choose Now font (https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/now - released as SIL) in Inkscape, I have following variants: Light, Normal, Medium, Bold, Heavy and as the first one (and one that causes problems) is " weight=250" (without quotation marks, _with_ space). I can't choose that " weight=250" one - other variants work fine. I checked the font file and it says it's "Now Thin" so I wrote manually "Thin". It worked.

Maybe it's problem with the font. I'm not into fonts and I don't know how to use FontForge on other font to correctly (!) change weight to test it with other one.

I'm on Inkscape 0.92.0 r15299 @Windows 7 64 bit.

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Tags: fonts
Krzysztof Blachnicki (krzysiunet)
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jazzynico (jazzynico) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to file a report!

Do you see " weight=250" in the font weight selector?
On Xubuntu 16.04, the first font shows correctly as "Ultra-light" in the selector (and in the XML file, font-weight:200 in the style attribute). (See attached screen-shot.)

Changed in inkscape:
status: New → Incomplete
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Krzysztof Blachnicki (krzysiunet) wrote :

Yes, I do. I attached screenshot. I don't know if it matters, but when I manually enter weight variant it works _both_ for "thin" and for "ultra light".

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jazzynico (jazzynico) wrote :

Thanks for reporting back. I'll try to reproduce on Windows later.

Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Incomplete → New
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jazzynico (jazzynico) wrote :

It's worse on Windows XP (32-bit), with Inkscape 0.92. The thin and medium fonts don't even show in the list.

Changed in inkscape:
status: New → Confirmed
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jazzynico (jazzynico) wrote :

Correction: "Thin" and "Normal" are not in the list.

When opening the Text and Font dialog, the console shows the following messages:
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Warning: Font face with same CSS values already added: Now Light (Thin, Light)
Warning: Font face with same CSS values already added: Now Medium (Regular, Medium)
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And in the dialog, the Light CSS attribute is mapped to the Thin face, and Medium is mapped to regular (see screenshot).

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jazzynico (jazzynico) wrote :

Related (and very likely the same root cause): Bug #1555109 "All font weights are not shown".

Changed in inkscape:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Low → Medium
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StevenD (daytonmeister) wrote :

I'm having this problem with the Roboto Font in Inkscape on a Mac. I could choose Roboto thin in Inkscape 0.91 on my Window laptop with no problems. When I choose thin and click Apply it gives me the Light weight.

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Nathan Lee (nathan.lee) wrote :

Closing as part of migration to GitLab. Issue is still being tracked in https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/283 and https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/156

I'm not sure if I have a updated version of the font Now (link now broken) but I can actually change to Now Thin, etc. in 0.92.3 ppa Linux Mint 19.1. However, the issue of non-100, 200, 300, etc. weight font variants still stands (it still applies to Roboto for example, see linked GitLab info for more recent tests).

Changed in inkscape:
status: Triaged → Invalid
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