All font weights are not shown

I am seeing the same bug with another font which has Regular, Bold, Thins styles. Thin is missing in inkscape font selector.

Inkscape 0.91 r13725, on Debian GNU/Linux Unstable

I am also seeing this bug with the Roboto font (and other fonts). Only two of the 12 different Roboto styles are showing up in Inkscape. Fonts are installed in ~/.local/share/fonts and all styles show up in other programs.

Inkscape 0.91 r13725 on Arch Linux.

Same bug for me!

Same for me with 0.91 on Linux Mint.

Also reproduced on Windows XP (32-bit), lp:inkscape/0.92.x rev. 15325.
The console shows the following messages when selecting the font in the fonts selector:
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Warning: Font face with same CSS values already added: Roboto Light (Thin, Light)
Warning: Font face with same CSS values already added: Roboto Medium (Regular, Medium)
Warning: Font face with same CSS values already added: Roboto Light Italic (Thin Italic, Light Italic)
Warning: Font face with same CSS values already added: Roboto Medium Italic (Medium Italic, Italic)
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Could it be due to how the Face and the CSS name are linked? Light (CSS) is linked to Thin (Face) and Medium (CSS) to Regular (Face) in the Text and font dialog (Font tab, style part, see screenshot).

Related (and very likely the same root cause): Bug #1655512 "can't use weight 250 font variant".

Also happens on 0.92 (Ubuntu) using Montserrat font, available here: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/montserrat
Thin and ExtraLight weights are not listed, and there is no possibility to force select them by typing manually in the font name either. This font has 9 weights total and shows only 7 of them in Inkscape.

Yes it seems to be a multiple of 50 issue. I edited the Roboto Thin "weight class" (Element > Font info > OS/2) in FontForge to be 100 instead of 250 and it shows well in Inkscape now. Font Manager actually have almost the same issue, it shows the Thin in the list but displays the Light instead in the preview. So you know you can still edit fonts to workaround this kind of issue (the problem is the font is modified so not cross-user anymore).

Same with fedora 25 and inkscape 0.92 with Museo Slab any what to bypass this ?

With Roboto it lists weight=250 instead of Thin and weight=250 Italic instead of Thin Italic.

Has this bug been fixed? I have Windows 10 and InkScape 0.92.3.

I downloaded a few Google Fonts through the SkyFonts manager. They show up in my C:\Windows\Fonts folder, and in other programs like Gimp & Paint. However, NONE of the new fonts show up in InkScape.

Not certain if it's the same exact bug, but thought I'd check anyway.

No, it's not fixed. There's a lot of work going on with fonts currently, so it's highly probable it will be fixed in the next major version of Inkscape.

Not sure why the importance of this bug is set to 'Medium'. Inkscape is the best and the most precise svg->pdf converter out of there, but this bug is super-duper annoying. I'm having same issue with different font weights. Tried to change the weight to something different, using FontForge, but inkscape keeps using just one version, while actually I have two different versions - book and regular (the font is Bebas Neue). I've tried to change Book to something more generic, like Thin, but for some reason inkscape can only use the thin version (book/thin). If I remove this font from the system, it uses Regular weight. After several days of googling and playing with font settings, the only solution that worked for me was to change the font family of Book version to a separated family (Bebas Neue Book). I removed any links to the former family (Bebas Neue), and now finally I can use both fonts in inkscape. Thanks God we don't care about customer fonts, the conversion runs on our server and we can put any fonts there. Otherwise we would be trapped.. Please Please solve this bug. And thanks for such a great tool!

I'm not sure, it may already have been solved with some recent work done by Tav.

Would anyone here be willing to test the development version? We can help with setting that up, depending on your operating system.

I'm still having this problem on Inkscape 0.92.4 on Windows 10 64 bit.

I'm guessing this is a variable font issue?

I'm looking at Bhanschrift, a Microsoft variable font. From the 15 variants that windows presents, only 12 will show in Inkscape and changing between some of them makes no difference on the text.

Unfortunately, this isn't fixed in the 1.0-beta release (1.0beta2 (2b71d25d45, 2019-12-03)), nor in the development version (1.1-dev (b0eafcaf0b, 2020-02-17)).

However, maybe, I have found a workaround (that hopefull points one of the developers in the right direction for a fix for this bug):

It's possible to edit the font-weight in the XML editor and this seems to work correctly (most of the time).

If we delete the '-inkscape-font-specification' attribute, even the 'text style' indicator is selected correctly. Instead of 'weight=255', the actual name of the font style ('Thin') is displayed.

I wrote "most of the time" because, strangely, the following happens with the font 'Montserrat':

Every font weight but the first one (100) seems to work correctly. I'm not sure why, but the rest (200 to 90

Seems like my comment got cut off. Why can't I edit my comment? The user interface of the site seems to be from the early 2000s... :)

Anyway, here is the rest:

Every font weight but the first one (100) seems to work correctly. I'm not sure why, but the rest (200 to 900) seems to work correctly.

Even more strange is that the 'text style' indicator for font-weight 100 is displayed correctly ('Thin'). But for some reason, font-weight 100 and 200 look identical in Inkscape.

I hope this all makes sense.

In the next comment, I will add a small guide that describes how to do what I described above for people who don't have much knowledge about web development and therefore can't do the above on their own.

If you open the XML editor (select the text element and press Ctrl-Shift-X), you can define the font style by hand.

You just select the text node in the XML editor and click on the 'style' attribute (on the right side of the window), after which a pop-up with the CSS styles opens.

Next, you look for the 'font-weight' attribute (which should look like this: ';font-weight:normal;') and change the value to the font weight you desire.

For Montserrat, for example, '100' would be the value for the font weight 'Thin' (so we would change the CSS code to ';font-weight:100;').

For fonts on Google Fonts you can find the possible values for 'font-weight' in the following way:

1) Go to your font (for example https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Montserrat)
2) Scroll down to "Styles", were the different font styles are show-cased
3) Right-click on the font style you are interested in, and click on 'Inspect' (in Chrome. Firefox should have something similar).

Now you can look for the 'font-weight' value in the selected HTML element.

To get italic text you also have to change the 'font-style' attribute, which should look like this: 'font-style:normal;'. You just replace 'normal' 'with italic': 'font-style:italic;'

At this point, the 'font style' indicator of Inkscape will still say "Normal", no matter what font style you have selected in the XML editor. To fix that you can do the following:

When you edit 'font-weight' and 'font-style' you just delete the '-inkscape-font-specification' attribute. With 'Montserrat' it looks like this:

'-inkscape-font-specification:Montserrat;'

If you use a different font, there would something else in the place of 'Montserrat'.

Just delete the whole snippet ('-inkscape-font-specification:Montserrat;'), including the semicolon.

Btw., the fonts that I've checked in FontForge (Oswald and Montserrat) all had weight class values that were multipliers of 100 (so the 'multiple of 50 issue' that mikmikmik mentioned shouldn't be the reason of the problem. At least not the problem I had).

Also: The workaround from the following bug report (linked above) doesn't seem to work (if I understand it correctly):

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1655512

The author mentioned that it's possible to add the name of the font style to the font name - so instead of 'Montserrat' you would put 'Montserrat Thin' into the field of the font name.

If you do this, Inkscape puts a small warning sight besides the font name with the title "Font not found on system".

The result is that Inkscape substitutes the font ('Montserrat Thin') for something different ('sans-serif' in my case).

Hi Daniel,

thank you very much for your testing and investigations.

About a year ago, we opened our new bug tracker at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/ .

We have set up a game for moving bug reports, too: https://alpha.inkscape.org/bug-migration/

Unfortunately, as there is no option to close this tracker without also making it invisible at the same time, and we have no way to tell people (who only come here to comment) about the new bug tracker.

Could you please help us by:

a) checking if this bug is already logged in the new tracker and
b) either opening a new report, summarizing your findings, or adding your information to any existing bug report for this topic?

relative to the statement above, "we have no way to tell people (who only come here to comment) about the new bug tracker."

the corresponding bug report in the new GitLab bug tracker for Inkscape seems to be this one:

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/283

this bug is still very much an issue, as of Inkscape v1.2.2; hopefully it can be fixed sometime soon. it is very easy to replicate. (see bug report above.)