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Help! Question about typeface usage on Mac

jamesarcher

The company I work for recently purchased the fantastic typeface Freight (http://www.garagefonts.com/typespecimens_2.html?sku=GF060014X1P2&start=1)

Unfortunately, we haven’t figured out how we can use it correctly on Macs (we don’t have any PCs so I’m not sure if they have a similar problem).

Basically, the system seems to be handling every style and variation as a separate typeface. I’m sure there’s a great reason for this, but since it’s the base typeface for all of our corporate use, it’s really inconvenient to have to change fonts every time we want italics, bold, etc.

Is there some way to merge the text, bold, italic, and bold-italic so that the system recognizes them as a single font, and we can then use the formatting features of applications such as Word, Pages, Photoshop, etc. to select the style?

This is getting more frustrating by the minute (I’m working on a large document with lots of bold and italics as I write this), so any advice is appreciated.

Thanks!

Have you tried using a font management program, such as the Linotype’s free Font Explorer? I have Freight, and it works perfectly with Fex in Photoshop and other CS applications. It doesn’t help with Word, though, I don’t know if anything does.

http://www.linotype.com/2493/fontexplorerx.html

Hello. Do you mind sharing some fonts? I am really interested in Freight, and have many top quality ones to exchange information on. Thanks.

I had the same problem with Freight Text on a PC, and I couldn’t live with it. The oddball naming convention sucked the usefulness out of an otherwise great font.

I have a program that allows me to rename fonts, which is what I did, and I am living happily ever after. I don’t know the Mac, or programs that can rename fonts on the Mac.

I’d love to know what Darden was thinking, and if he would consider renaming the fonts for the rest of the type world outside his circle.

I consider this a major professional lapse, and was part of the reason for my post some time ago, “Unprofessional Fonts from Professio

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