Typophile

Family Grouping in Adobe CS Font Menu

takach

So I’m having this issue, where I just installed a typeface, but instead of every weight being nested within one typeface family, every weight has it’s own name within the character menu of both indesign, and illustrator. The result is I end up having a long list of fonts from the same typeface instead of just the family name, so it gets all mucked up, and I want it to be organized correctly. I took a screenshot of what I’m talking about.

So does anyone have a solution to this problem, or is there any software out there that can fix it?

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James Montalbano

When in doubt and confronted with any font menu anomalies , search for Adobefnt.lst files and trash them.

Grzegorz Rolek

It looks like those OpenType files are direct (automatic maybe?) conversions of Type1 families, in which experts sets were often named incorrectly for technical limitations and basic styles/weights were also named that way for consistency in font list. Try to look at those fonts in Font Book or other font manager which will give you extended info about names etc.

takach

I searched for adobefnt.lst, and I didn’t have any

It’s weird with some of these families, in font book Sophisto shows up all messed up like in adobe, and when I open Linotype manager, it’s all nested in nice family. I really don’t understand this.

The naming convention for the sophisto family is

Sophisto-A.otf
Sophisto-A-Ita.otf
Sophisto-A-Xpert.otf
Sophisto-A-SCOSF.otf

and so on, is there something wrong with the naming convention, or any other software method out

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