I’m working with a graphic designer that uses different values of font weight (300, 500 etc) and I can’t find any control over it in juce::Font expect plain and bold, am I missing something?
I think that the safest approach would be to embed your own fonts with your desired weight.
Thanks, the font I need is “Helvetica Neue” which is already installed, but I can’t see any way to reach the 500 weight, only plain (400) and bold (700).
This is by the Font::FontStyleFlags
You might need to select the typeface name which already corresponds to your desired weight (e.g. “Helvetica Neue Regular” or “Helvetica Neue Medium”).
Juce should support variable fonts nowadays, should be pretty easy to support on top of freetype library and maybe harfbuzz for ligatures as well. Variable fonts should allow for seamless font weight changes using a single ttf
Thanks! That did the trick.
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Juce should support variable fonts nowadays,
Is that to say you JUCE currently now does support variable fonts (“should” based on your experience), or are you suggesting that it ought to (but doesn’t)? I haven’t found anything online or in the docs to explain how to do this.
Cheers,
J
Sorry i might have not been clear, juce doesn’t support variables fonts. I think that adding support for variable axis nowadays should be the norm.
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@kunitoki ha thanks for clarifying - I thought that might be what you meant, but I was hoping it was the other interpretation. And yes, obviously I agree with you that support for variable fonts should be available. 