Typophile

Name-Table Localization Question

André G. Isaak

I've been looking through various fonts (primarily ones distributed by Apple), and have noticed what strikes me as an oddity but perhaps I am mistaken here.

Using Russian as an example, the regular styles of the fonts I've looked at all include 'Обычный' (or in a few cases 'Прямой') as a localized style name. This, however, appears to be invariant across faces. Shouldn't the style name agree in gender with the font name? Or is the style name considered a noun rather than an adjective?

André

Captured from web.archive.org on 9 Aug 2014. view this capture