Organize Font Families Your WayĪs you can see, organizing fonts by their family names can be quite challenging. For example, some people want to unite expanded, condensed, semibold and heavy styles with their core families, while others want them in separate families. To make this conundrum even more complicated, there are no definitive rules for organizing fonts into families. While established font foundries have extensive quality checks to avoid errors, there is no way to guarantee that font creators specify 100% accurate metadata. Fonts with Naming ErrorsĪs strange as it may sound, a small number of font files contain misspelled family names, copyrights and descriptions in their metadata. While it’s not a common occurrence, fonts with identical family names can be very different in appearance – not just from different families, but from different planets. In the human world, not all people named Smith are related. Designers must treat these Garamond fonts from different vendors as distinct families. This practice results in font names such as ITC Garamond, Apple Garamond, EB Garamond and Garamond SSI – all of which are versions of the Garamond typeface with subtle differences. Established foundries add their names or initials to font and family names to help identify the source of the fonts. Foundries Create Font Variationsįont foundries commonly create their versions of popular typefaces such as Garamond. For example, while you may think that all fonts called Open Sans are in the same family, some versions of Open Sans fonts specify that the Light, Semibold, Extrabold and Condensed styles of Open Sans are in their own separate families. Font designers decide what family a font belongs to.
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