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Yajee7898
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Aug 08, 2021

Bold-Italics Not Working on Word

Hello folks,   I recently bought 4 weights of a new font, regular, italics, bold, bold-italics. All of them are working on my Mac on all programs except for Word. On Word three of the weights work ...
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RosalieW
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Sep 22, 2021

Yajee7898 Hello, I am a font engineer contractor for Google Fonts in charge of quality-assurance of font products and I want to report the same issue. Most of our fonts produced in the last year are having that same issue, which was not the case before. I suspect the fonts are not the problem because they rigorously follow the open-type specifications and work fine in the Office products on Windows + live view.

 

I reported this issue to the open-type spec too in case there would be a change that wasn't documented, but does look like a bug from the Mac Office softwares (also reproduced in Powerpoint).

 

Bold Italic style linking:

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/typography-issues/issues/829

Other issue about the same topic which gives more details:

https://github.com/silnrsi/font-gentium/issues/6

 

Embedding of standalone non-regular fonts:

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/typography-issues/issues/830

 

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