[Interest] Font issues.

[Cornelius Hald]

Hi,

I'm not sure it is the same issue, but I just remembered to ask
something similar some time ago. Didn't look into it any further,
though.

http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/2013-November/009535.html

Cheers,
Conny

On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 15:25 -0800, Joshua Kolden wrote:
> I'm having difficulty with QtQuick font support. I can't quite be sure
> where the issue is, but it appears that Qt does not support ttf fonts
> with styles / SubFamilies, or it may be an issue with font weights.
> 
> 
> In particular if you go to any old font on Google fonts and download
> it.  Say "Raleway" you'll get many 'subfamilies' of the font
> "ExtraBold" "ExtraLight" "Thin" etc.  However, QML will only render
> Bold and Normal.  Even if I only give it access to a single file like
> "Raleway-Thin.ttf”
> 
> 
> This post suggests that this might be by design if it's a font family
> naming
> issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17521578/qml-font-style-naming-issue-mac-linux-platform-differences
> 
> 
> However these font files draw properly in every other application I’ve
> tried.
> 
> 
> Ttf fonts from google fonts and other sources, and in general css font
> specifications define font weights in the hundreds with 400 being
> 'normal' however QML uses internal constants Font.Light, Font.Bold
> etc, that are in a range of 0-99 and doesn't seem to allow any numbers
> other than the small set of defined constants.  So it may not be name,
> but  that I can't define the weight properly "Railway Thin" is defined
> at weight 100.
> 
> 
> Ttf fonts from google fonts and other sources, and in general css font
> specifications define font weights in the hundreds with 400 being
> 'normal' however QML uses internal constants Font.Light, Font.Bold
> etc, that are in a range of 0-99 and doesn't seem to allow any numbers
> other than the small set of defined constants.  So it may not be name,
> but that I can't define the weight properly "Railway Thin" is defined
> at weight 100.
> 
> 
> I've done extensive tests with the Text object, and font properties,
> including using a file dialogue, and setting the font from the system
> fonts procedurally. QtQuick consistently renders the font at
> the incorrect weight.
> 
> 
> Any insights would be appreciated.  If it is an intentional design
> choice then I’ll bring it up in the developer list, but I wanted to
> make sure it isn’t user error first.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> j
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