[Interest] Use Book and Medium weight Gotham font from QML?
Allan Sandfeld Jensen
kde at carewolf.com
Tue Apr 5 16:24:17 CEST 2016
On Tuesday 05 April 2016, Elvis Stansvik wrote:
> 2016-04-05 15:12 GMT+02:00 Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde at carewolf.com>:
> > On Monday 04 April 2016, Elvis Stansvik wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm targeting Qt 5.4.1 and it seems there's no Font.Medium enumeration
> >>
> >> value there? I get:
> >> Unable to assign [undefined] to int
> >>
> >> The font we're using for this app is our company font, which is Gotham
> >> from Hoefler & Co. The weights we need in the UI are Book and Medium,
> >> each defined in its own .otf (but under the same family name
> >> "Gotham"), as shown by the fc-scan output below:
> >>
> >> estan at newton:~$ fc-scan Gotham-Book.otf
> >> Pattern has 22 elts (size 32)
> >>
> >> family: "Gotham"(s) "Gotham Book"(s)
> >> familylang: "en"(s) "en"(s)
> >> style: "Book"(s) "Regular"(s)
> >> stylelang: "en"(s) "en"(s)
> >> fullname: "Gotham-Book"(s)
> >> fullnamelang: "en"(s)
> >> slant: 0(i)(s)
> >> weight: 50(i)(s)
> >> width: 100(i)(s)
> >> foundry: "unknown"(s)
> >> file: "Gotham-Book.otf"(s)
> >> index: 0(i)(s)
> >> outline: True(s)
> >> scalable: True(s)
> >> charset:
> >> 0000: 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff 7fffffff 00000000 ffdfcfaf
> >>
> >> ffffffff ffffffff
> >>
> >> 0001: cffffcff fec3fccf cffff1ff 7ffffc3f 00040000 00000000
> >>
> >> 00000000 fc000000
> >>
> >> 0002: 03000000 00000000 02000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 3f0000c0 00000000
> >>
> >> 0003: 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 000e: 00000000 80000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 001e: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000003f 00000000
> >>
> >> 00000000 000c0000
> >>
> >> 0020: 771806bc 06010047 00000010 03f10000 000003ff 00021742
> >>
> >> 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 0021: 00800000 00000005 7ff80000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 0022: 00040000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 00fb: 0000001f 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 00000000 00000000
> >> (s)
> >>
> >> lang:
> >> aa|ay|bi|br|bs|ca|ch|co|cs|cy|da|de|en|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fo|fr|fur|fy|gd|gl
> >> |g
> >> v|ho|hr|hu|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|la|lb|lt|lv|mg|mh|mt|nb|nds|nl|nn|no|nr|ns
> >> o|ny
> >>
> >> |oc|om|pl|pt|rm|sk|sl|sma|smj|so|sq|ss|st|sv|sw|tk|tl|tn|tr|ts|uz|vo|vot
> >> ||wa
> >> |wen|xh|yap|zu|an|crh|csb|fil|hsb|ht|jv|kj|ku-tr|kwm|li|ms|ng|pap-an|pa
> >> |p-aw rn|rw|sc|sg|sn|su|za(s) fontversion: 144179(i)(s)
> >> |
> >> capability: "otlayout: otlayout:latn"(s)
> >> fontformat: "CFF"(s)
> >> decorative: False(s)
> >>
> >> hash:
> >> "sha256:3083f405cb35b16e06d0108836dd6552630c85c7fc5412a5de724e57e6fd7348
> >> "( s) postscriptname: "Gotham-Book"(s)
> >>
> >> estan at newton:~$ fc-scan Gotham-Medium.otf
> >> Pattern has 22 elts (size 32)
> >>
> >> family: "Gotham"(s) "Gotham Medium"(s)
> >> familylang: "en"(s) "en"(s)
> >> style: "Medium"(s) "Regular"(s)
> >> stylelang: "en"(s) "en"(s)
> >> fullname: "Gotham-Medium"(s)
> >> fullnamelang: "en"(s)
> >> slant: 0(i)(s)
> >> weight: 80(i)(s)
> >> width: 100(i)(s)
> >> foundry: "unknown"(s)
> >> file: "Gotham-Medium.otf"(s)
> >> index: 0(i)(s)
> >> outline: True(s)
> >> scalable: True(s)
> >> charset:
> >> 0000: 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff 7fffffff 00000000 ffdfcfaf
> >>
> >> ffffffff ffffffff
> >>
> >> 0001: cffffcff fec3fccf cffff1ff 7ffffc3f 00040000 00000000
> >>
> >> 00000000 fc000000
> >>
> >> 0002: 03000000 00000000 02000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 3f0000c0 00000000
> >>
> >> 0003: 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 000e: 00000000 80000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 001e: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000003f 00000000
> >>
> >> 00000000 000c0000
> >>
> >> 0020: 771806bc 06010047 00000010 03f10000 000003ff 00021742
> >>
> >> 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 0021: 00800000 00000005 7ff80000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 0022: 00040000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 00fb: 0000001f 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> >>
> >> 00000000 00000000
> >> (s)
> >>
> >> lang:
> >> aa|ay|bi|br|bs|ca|ch|co|cs|cy|da|de|en|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fo|fr|fur|fy|gd|gl
> >> |g
> >> v|ho|hr|hu|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|la|lb|lt|lv|mg|mh|mt|nb|nds|nl|nn|no|nr|ns
> >> o|ny
> >>
> >> |oc|om|pl|pt|rm|sk|sl|sma|smj|so|sq|ss|st|sv|sw|tk|tl|tn|tr|ts|uz|vo|vot
> >> ||wa
> >> |wen|xh|yap|zu|an|crh|csb|fil|hsb|ht|jv|kj|ku-tr|kwm|li|ms|ng|pap-an|pa
> >> |p-aw rn|rw|sc|sg|sn|su|za(s) fontversion: 144179(i)(s)
> >> |
> >> capability: "otlayout: otlayout:latn"(s)
> >> fontformat: "CFF"(s)
> >> decorative: False(s)
> >>
> >> hash:
> >> "sha256:bc397773a547218b8c334f9a40ea8e58f55198fab6095b103e598634fe273450
> >> "( s) postscriptname: "Gotham-Medium"(s)
> >>
> >> estan at newton:~/orexplore/doc/GrafiskProfil/Typsnitt/Gotham$
> >>
> >> And I'm loading these as follows:
> >>
> >> Style {
> >>
> >> readonly property string mediumFontFamily: __gothamMediumLoader.name
> >> readonly property string regularFontFamily: __gothamBookLoader.name
> >>
> >> property FontLoader __gothamBookLoader: FontLoader {
> >>
> >> source: "fonts/Gotham-Book.otf"
> >>
> >> }
> >>
> >> property FontLoader __gothamMediumLoader: FontLoader {
> >>
> >> source: "fonts/Gotham-Medium.otf"
> >>
> >> }
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> }
> >>
> >> and trying to use them with:
> >>
> >> Text {
> >>
> >> text: "Foo"
> >> font.family: Style.regularFontFamily
> >> font.weight: Font.Normal
> >>
> >> }
> >>
> >> Text {
> >>
> >> text: "Foo"
> >> font.family: Style.mediumFontFamily
> >> font.weight: Font.Medium
> >>
> >> }
> >
> > Have you tried:
> > font.styleName: "Medium"
> >
> > styleName is the most direct way to select a specific style of a font
> > without having to go through matching of style property which may be
> > wrongly encoded in the font .
>
> Ah yes, that will probably work. That's what I meant with:
>
> "It seems there's some fixes in 5.6 which will let me use
> Font.styleName to match a font by style name, which would be a
> workaround [1]. But right now I'm stuck with 5.4.1."
>
> Completely understandable if you missed that, sorry for sending such a
> tirade of e-mails!
>
Ah, sorry. Yes it is pretty difficult with Qt 5.4, it also doesn't understand
the Medium font weight (I think that got added in 5.5). Probably renaming the
fonts is the best solution if you can't upgrade Qt.
Best Regards
`Allan
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