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How to Make a Font Family
If you have several styles of one font family (typeface), you should follow these simple rules:
Enter the name of the font family in the Family Name record. Enter the same name in the Menu
Name record, but control the length of the Menu Name by pressing on the Check button. The
Family Name and Menu name should be the same for all fonts of the family.
Select the correct styles for all fonts. Choose Normal or Regular weight for the normal style; check
the Font italic option for the italic or oblique style; and use the Font is bold option to define a style
as bold. It is recommended (but not required!) that you select the proper weight and width names.
You can enter any name, but we highly recommend using only the standard names from the list.
Fill in the Style Name field. We recommend using the Build Style Name button.
Fill in the Font Name and Full Name fields. The best way is to press the Build Names records button
and let FontLab fill in all the fields automatically.
Note 1: Fonts in both formats may include only 4 styles in a family. These styles are: normal, bold,
italic and bold-italic and their names are very standard and automatically generated by Adobe Type
Manager.
If you have more than four styles in your typeface you must create several families. You may put all
condensed styles into a Condensed or Narrow sub-family (like Arial Narrow, Arial Narrow Bold, Arial
Narrow Italic), all black styles into a Black sub-family (Arial Black, Arial Black Italic) and all “normal”
styles in the “Normal” sub-family (Arial, Arial Italic, Arial Bold and Arial Bold Italic).