Ohno! font family disabled

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
September 25, 2023
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Hi all, I'm unable to download the styles of the Ohno! font.
The only style available is the light one.

Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?

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Brad @ Roaring Mouse

Community Expert

As this is a variable font there is only one font file. You then use the Variable settings in your Character panels to select which weight you want on a scale, or, most variables have a set of pre-defined weights, so you should see those (ohno has Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Black). Not all apps support variables, so in those cases you may only see the Light.

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Bobby Henderson

Community Expert

It seems like some software developers are dragging their feet at incorporating support of the OTF Variable and OTF-SVG "color font" standards into their applications. For instance, in the case of Affinity Designer only the base style of a Variable Font will be visible -yet there will be a lot of useless duplicate listings where it tries to list out the built-in instances of the font. There are no sliders to adjust the axes of a variable font. There is no telling if/when Serif will incorporate Variable Font support into their Designer or Publisher applications.

Like the Type 1 Multiple Master standard, Adobe was among the first to support Variable Fonts. But the OTF Variable standard is already far more successful than the T1 MM format ever was. Dozens of commercial type foundries are releasing new Variable Fonts all the time. Google has dozens of Variable Families available at the Google Fonts website. It would seem like that would be enough to convince other developers to add support of Variable Fonts. A few rival graphics applications such as CorelDRAW or even Inkscape have Variable Font support. Plenty of others do not. As far as I can tell none of the sign industry specific design applications (Flexi, Gerber Omega, SignLab, etc) have any Variable Font support. Some are even limited with how they treat the bells and whistles of the static OpenType standard. I think those costly "CAS" applications are becoming largely irrelevant.