Pfont ignores font weight

tysonanderson

I'm attempting to load a font (Gotham) to use in my sketch and it seems to be ignoring the font weight. The font is an .otf font. Comparing with what I see in illustrator it seems all weights of the font display as "medium."

I've tried creating a .vlw in processing and I have tried using the createFont() method. Both produce the same results.

PFont myFont;

void setup(){
  background(255);
  fill(0);
  size(500, 200);
  String[] fontList = PFont.list();
  println(fontList);
  myFont = createFont("Gotham-ExtraLight", 32);
  textFont(myFont);

  text("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog", 10,50);
}

Using Processing 2.2.1 on OSX Mavericks

Bird

Try textSize(32)

PhiLho

I think there is no way to specify font styles in Processing, except by using different fonts (different names), eg.:

DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf
DejaVuSans-ExtraLight.ttf
DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf
DejaVuSans.ttf

tysonanderson

@XYZZY tried that but nothing changed.

@PhiLho I know I have to load in each font style individually. The problem is that processing seems to be ignoring the style I specify. For example if I were to load in DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf (or any of the other styles) it would display as DejaVuSans.ttf.

PhiLho

PFont font1, font2, font3;

void setup()
{
  size(900, 200);
  background(255);
  fill(0);
  String[] fontList = PFont.list();
  for (String f : fontList) { if (f.startsWith("Deja")) println(f); }
  font1 = createFont("DejaVu Sans", 32);
  font2 = createFont("DejaVu Sans Bold", 32);
  font3 = createFont("DejaVu Sans Oblique", 32);
//  textSize(32);
  textFont(font1);
  text("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog", 10, 50);
  textFont(font2);
  text("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog", 10, 100);
  textFont(font3);
  text("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog", 10, 150);
}

I see three different fonts.

bilmor

I see three identical fonts. I note that DejaVu is not in the fontList and @PhiLho's code prints nothing to the console. Processing 2.2.1 on MacOS 10.9.4.

Bird

I saw the three fonts the same as well. I don't have DejaVu either, so I changed to Arial and it works fine. Everyones got Arial...

PFont font1, font2, font3;

void setup()
{
  size(900, 200);
  background(255);
  fill(0);
  String[] fontList = PFont.list();
  for (String f : fontList) { if (f.startsWith("Arial")) println(f); }
  font1 = createFont("Arial", 32);
  font2 = createFont("Arial Bold", 32);
  font3 = createFont("Arial Italic", 32);
//  textSize(32);
  textFont(font1);
  text("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog", 10, 50);
  textFont(font2);
  text("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog", 10, 100);
  textFont(font3);
  text("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog", 10, 150);
}

I see your problem, @tysonanderson. You are trying to create a font with "Gotham-ExtraLight" (note hyphen). "Arial" is listed in the create font dialoge as "ArialMT" and "Arial Bold" is listed as "Arial-BoldMT". You just got to indicate the correct name/spelling.

tysonanderson

Thanks for your help.

I see 3 fonts as well so it seems to be working for DejaVu. It for some reason does not like Gotham. I switched my design to use Gill Sans since that seems to be working as well. I'd like to know why it doesn't work but for now I've come up with a workaround.

Bird

Added a note to the end of my last post while you were responding. I think that might be the cause. Maybe.

tysonanderson

@XYZZY I wish that were the case. I've been copying the text directly from the PFont.list(); output so I'm certain the problem isn't a spelling error.

I think the problem is something much more complex because even when I look at gotham in the create font dialog all the font weights are exactly the same in the preview.

Bird

Oh, okay. Well, good luck.

PhiLho

"I see three identical fonts. I note that DejaVu is not in the fontList"
Well, it just means it uses the default font, then. That's why I have this commented out textSize(), so if I uncomment it and comment out the textFont() calls, I can see if it changes anything. If not, the font name is wrong (or not existing on the current system).