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• • July 19, 2017 at 7:52 am #96196
    Lala Lala

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    The problem: I want to organize my fonts, within Indesign’s font menus.
    Where possible, I want fonts in the same family to be grouped together.

    For example, I don’t want separate font menu listings for Avant Garde vs. Avant Garde Condensed.
    I just want one family called “Avant Garde” and then the dropdown below sorted like this:

    Light
    Light Italic
    Book
    Book Italic
    Medium
    Medium Italic
    etc…
    etc…
    Condensed Light
    Condensed Light Italic
    Condensed Book
    Condensed Book Italic
    Condensed Medium
    Condensed Medium Italic
    etc…
    etc…

    I figured I could accomplish this by just playing with the internal names of each font.
    But after HOURS of trial and error I cannot get Indesign to list fonts the way I want.
    It wants to put the Light fonts at the end of the list for no apparent reason.

    Even after I removed ALL internal naming and tried calling the fonts
    Avant Garde AAA
    Avant Garde BBB
    Avant Garde CCC
    etc…

    this is what happens. WHY?

    View post on imgur.com

    note: just condensed being shown for now.

  • July 19, 2017 at 9:08 am #96211
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Wow, that’s a lot of work. I don’t know what internal naming or system it uses. I think it’s much easier just to press Cmd-6 (to jump to the font field) then type “garde con light” and let the Font field filter for me.

  • July 19, 2017 at 9:42 am #96212
    Lala Lala

    Participant

    The shortcut you gave is useful, but mostly it’s not about finding a specific font,
    it’s about having a shorter, manageable list of fonts, for when I’m sort of browsing the possibilities.

    Maybe it’s just the neat freak in me, but situations like this are just unacceptible.

    View post on imgur.com

    If I can solve this mystery, I may waste some time getting it right once,
    but then it’ll never bug me again.

  • July 19, 2017 at 10:21 am #96213
    Lindsey Martin

    Member

    This is atypical and it appears to me that Hoefler&Co. have not grouped the ‘grades’ as families.

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