[Mac] Font picking combobox: list all font weights installed on the machine (ex.: light, medium, extra-bold...)
Reported version
3.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
No
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
In reply to (No subject) by Jojo-Schmitz
Hi Jojo, I just want to add my voice to the requests for this feature! I'd really like to utilize the included weights in my fonts other than just regular and bold.
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
In reply to The (obvious) workaround is… by Jojo-Schmitz
Just want to point out that the issue is with support for font features (weights beyond regular and bold), not discrepancies in how they render. Just clarifying because the workaround in the comment doesn't work around the issue at hand.
Hello, I'm looking into this now and found this thread. I have found a similar problem with font selection on museScore. It appears that the UI to select font weights is lacking. The design requirements for my compositions require specific weights of fonts. Before I raise an issue in Git, I was wondering if there was an existing issue or feature request there that I could tag along to.
Just some more background, this was actually one of the key factors for me two years ago when I decided to stay with Finale. Now that finale is closing, I am interested in helping with museScore to ease my transition.
This issue tracker here has been discontinued so better report on GitHub