Typophile

How operating system calculates the default bold value?

Atif Gulzar

Hi all,
I have made a regular weight font. In Microsoft platform, applications still able to get the bold version (lets say when I press the bold button in MS Word). My question is how this default bold behavior is calculated and can we tune this default behavior using FontLab.

And there is a small question what is the difference between "Normal" and "Regular" weight?

Best regards,
Atif

Göran Söderström

The trick is to design the bold yourself. That is, do a separate bold weight of your font instead of using the applications "fake" bolds.

Thomas Phinney

Right. The font has no control over the fake "bold" applied in Mac OS or Windows operating systems. You have to design a real bold weight.

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Atif Gulzar

Thanks Phinny. Yes I understand that but I am just curious how they make this fake bold face.

And what about the second question? "the difference between regular and normal weight"

Best regards,
Atif

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