PT Serif Pro bold shortcut does not work in InDesign

Hi @SerikAd,

Thanks so much for your patience while we looked into this deeper. I checked with our product and font engineering teams, and here's what they shared:

The PT Serif Pro font doesn't have 'style linking' set up for the Bold style. In other words, even though the font includes a Bold weight, it's not technically linked to the Regular style in the way that InDesign needs for the Ctrl+Shift+B shortcut to work. This is a deliberate choice by the font foundry and not a bug in InDesign.

As a workaround, you can set up a Character Style with Bold applied and then assign a custom shortcut to that style. This will let you quickly apply Bold using your own shortcut in InDesign.

Let me know if you have any other questions. Looking forward to your update!

Abhishek 

Well, I wouldn't apply bold/italic/underline with the shortcuts for these, sure it's fine if you want to work like that.

But do you not make Character Styles? If you create the styles you can then assign a custom shortcut to apply the Bold/Italic/Underline as character styles. 

You don't need to put in PT in the font family - just need to leave that part blank and inser Bold in the part underneaths. 

Same for the other styles you want. 

There's a free script called PrepText that can cycle through your InDesign Story and find and apply styles correctly so it can build the Bold/Italic/Underline etc. styles in the Character Style panel for you. 

It's worth considering.

This is an error on the font designer's part. You might want to talk to paratype about this:

In order for most programs to make a family association between font styles, the designer needs to base the family name on the same base font. This hasn't been done with the version of PT Serif Pro being served currently on Adobe fonts.

In my sample here, you can see they erroneously labeled the family name of the Bold to PT Serif Pro Bold instead of the proper PT Serif Pro. Because of this, using the bold style key commands in InDesign can't find it.

Below: The Adobe Fonts versions are at top left and right. Below that are the Regular and Bold of PT Serif that's included in the Mac OS for comparison, which is correctly defined.

You can still use the fonts of course; you just have to manually asign the bold version to your text instead of relying on key commands (which have fallen out of favour in recent years anyway)

I'm not sure what you mean by it's not happening in Illustrator, as there are no such bold style key commands there. You have to select the Bold implicitly in the Character Style menu

Hi @SerikAd,

Thanks for reporting this and sorry to hear you're running into this shortcut issue. Could you please confirm the version of InDesign you're currently using and share your operating system details? Also, let me know if this happens with all documents or only specific ones, even newly created files.

Additionally, try signing out and back into Creative Cloud and clear the font cache using the steps here: https://adobe.ly/4nbqLAd. Let me know if that makes any difference.

Looking forward to your update.

Abhishek