[Mac] Font picking combobox: list all font weights installed on the machine (ex.: light, medium, extra-bold...)

• Oct 9, 2019 - 20:46
Reported version
3.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project

On mac, when editing the font family of a text element, only the normal/regular and bold weights are listed. All other variants installed on the operating system are not available.
Furthermore, if a music sheet is loaded on mac, with element using light, medium, extra-bold... weights, a substitution font will be used instead (even if the font is installed on the machine).
Actually there is no workaround.

On Windows, all weight variants of a font installed on the os, are loaded and available correctly.

Discussion on the forum: https://musescore.org/en/node/290527


Comments

Workaround No Yes

The (obvious) workaround is to not use these fonts in the first place, but stick with Edwin or FreeSerif (or FreeSans). which come as part of MuseScore and therefore a guaranteed to render the same on every platform MuseScore runs on, including musescore.com