Bold Fonts

[tom95521]

While testing some Google fonts I noticed that many do not include bold versions. When the bold option is enabled PTE does a font substitution. If possible create a synthetic bold version of the font like Boxy SVG does. I think Photoshop has Faux Bold option too. Many graphic editors just have regular font with bold disabled.  Also the font rendering on Festive looks different.

Examples from here
https://fonts.google.com/?category=Handwriting

Thanks,
Tom
Mac Ventura 13.4.1
PTE AV Studio 11 Pro 11.0.6 (Apple Silicon) 

 

[Igor]

Hi Tom,

Thanks, I'll check these fonts on our Mac.

[tom95521]

Hi Igor,

Thanks. Font substitution also happens with Italics.

Tom

[Igor]

Hi Tom,

I checked these Google fonts.

Windows automatically creates synthetic bold and italic variants, and it works even in PTE.

macOS provides only regular version of these fonts.

Regrettably it's not simple task to create a bold variant of a font. It would take a lot of time for our team.

Maybe Apple will perform this task in future update(s) of macOS?

[tom95521]

Hi Igor,

I can use my Windows PC when I need to make a bold cursive fonts. I did find a possible API that I will send by DM.

Thanks,
Tom