Faux Bold (Ctrl + B) Display issue, Windows - Miscrosoft Office Powerpoint and Word.

[bulletfactory]

Hello.

First, this is a beautiful font - Thank you for developing! I'm using Sora in a large branding project and have hit a few snags with some Windows users when creating powerpoint presentations and word docs. I cannot recreate this issue on a Mac in any application. So it's localized to the way windows (specifically Microsoft PPT and Word) handles bolding.

When someone on a Windows machine is using Thin, Extra Light, etc and uses the keyboard shortcut CTRL + B to bold words the display for certain letters becomes garbled. I'm guessing this happens because ctrl b just synthesizes a thicker weight of the currently selected thin font instead of switching to the real thicker font face (ie: Sora Regular, Semi-Bold, etc).

Here you can see when someone faux-bolds thin, portions of the lowercase w's and i's disappear.

When you look through the font list, they're all separate and not under the same family. I was wondering if it was a way the font names were organized in the family and if that might resolve the issue? Are they organized into separate faces instead of a group? Have you seen this issue before? Do you suggest installing the font in a specific way?

We've told them not to bold words in this way, but bad habits are hard to break :) Really hoping to continue using this beautiful font on this project and not have to default to a system font that is more "faux-bold friendly".

Thanks!
Trent

[DOMMM1987]

Hi, has this issue been resolved?

[DOMMM1987]

Hi @bulletfactory

We have recently changed our brand font to Sora Light - beautiful font - and have rolled it out to all employees now to use in their presentations and docs. We are now experiencing the same faux-bold issue (We are using the ttf version of Sora) - I was wondering if you have found a solution/workaround for this? (besides telling people not to bold it that way ;))

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated :)
Thanks
Dom

[bulletfactory]

Hi Dom - We did not find an effective work around.

In my exploration, I opened all the various weights in a font design program called Fontographer, and made naming adjustments to the meta data so CTRL + B did select the proper weight. While that worked, it meant installing a custom version of Sora which wasn't an effective solve.