I’ve been trying to add multiple different fonts inside Penpot but when I do a bulk upload, the majority of my fonts are being clubbed together under a single Font Variant. When I do upload, I see only a single font family wit h no font-variant represented so I am losing out on different fonts.
A simple workaround is to upload fonts one by one but that’s tedious since I have close to 30 fonts! Curious to know thoughts and any other tips around these.
Hi @carolina.portugal - your understanding is correct. When I upload multiple font variants, I only see a single variant inside Penpot. Please refer to below screenshots:
That’s super weird @Alex , because I still get the same thing. Fonts are classified into a single variant and only appear once.
I had a few questions from the video you shared:
The drive link I shared was for Adelle, however, you have uploaded Univers LT Pro. Is there a specific place from which you downloaded these fonts?
I also used https://transfonter.org/ to merge different fonts inside a single font family and re-tried uploading but still no luck. Is there any other setting that I should change?
This is interesting, thanks for sharing it with me @Alex .
I checked out the link you shared for font for 2 specific fonts - both having different font families, check screenshot below:
Hey @Alex , I’ve seen cases where even if the fontFamily is same and fontSubFamily is different still those fonts are being clubbed into one. Specific details below:
The fontFamily and subFamily as per my knowledge and the conversations we’ve had in this thread seems correct for both these fonts. Can you share insights / thoughts on this being a potential bug?
Thanks for the update @Alex!
There are cases in which fonts are “Bold Italics” and since we’ve hardcoded the font-weight names, this type of font would always get clubbed with either “Bold” or “Italics”. What is the best way to move forward in that case?
Are you guys also planning to add support for these kind of weights as well?
Bumping this issue. There seems to be a lack of granularity and flexibilty with font-weights when importing them, causing a lot of work to disccern them in a project. You have to upload each weight separately and give the unique names, because the weight is locked to “Regular” on each one.
Example: I have some fonts with custom weight names, like Wilco Loft Sans that uses weight-names in theme with the font. Treble, midrange, low end, bass. These need to be “translated” if imported into Penpot. I can use the fonts directly in both Affinity Designer 2 or Figma with the weight names correctly displayed, I guess it’s because it just reads them from the Font library on my machine.