Font Weights Unsupported?

[DKH_PMH]

Hey, Everyone -

It appears that Font Weights are unsupported. I'm working with Lato (Google Font) that comes in the following weights:

Thin 100
Light 300
Normal 400
Bold 700
Ultra-Bold 900

The GUI does not have a box to select weight, so I added the font-weight property manually:

.gwd-span-wc8l {
font-family: Lato;
color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
font-weight: 100;
}

I can set the font-weight to 100 or 900 with no change. Alternatively I can use Normal, Bold, Bolder, or Lighter and it has no effect.

Any idea why this isn't working?

Thanks,
Dan H.

[petersonm...@gmail.com]

Just checking back. This is a critical feature for advertisers. Any comments from the GWD Team?

Also, is there support for Web Font Loader so that we can work with web fonts from Google and other foundries?

Thanks, eh?
Dan H.

[Jaz]

Hi,

Yes, our initial implementation of the font picker does not support adding weights, however I've added a dev in to this thread, in case there is a way to do this via code view.

We have a number of text improvements to make and just having attended ATypI in Barcelona last week, I'm very excited to see what GWD can do to improve our fonts implementation.

Thanks for your feedback and I'll keep you posted on this thread.

thx!
jaz

Jasmine Rogers
Program Manager, GWD

[oyvind.lil...@amedia.no]

Any progress on this part?

[Jaz]

Hi,

We've sync'd with the Google Fonts team to discuss options, next we'll assign it to a dev and add it to the roadmap. We definitely know the font picker needs to be updated and would love to support various font weights.

[comed...@gmail.com]

Any update on this? I've just hit this issue and was hoping some progress has been made on it in 8 months.

[Jaz]

Hi,

Yes and it's been a pretty busy 8 months (2 major releases in that time)! Font and text workflow is something we're working on at the moment and so far, we're really liking the improvements. Hoping to have more to update you on soon, but yes, we've been working on this.

thx
jaz
Program Manager, GWD

[Mar]

Since you manually added the font-weight to the CSS, open your HTML file and paste in this link to the google font like so:

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:100,300,400' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

You should be able to use the font-weights, 100,300 & 400.

If you need more, check and uncheck the boxes here and grab the updated link.

https://www.google.com/fonts#UsePlace:use/Collection:Lato

[comed...@gmail.com]

Hi,

The point is, since this is purporting to be an easy-to-use interface, when those weights are added to the CSS (which I had done, exactly as you described above), the weights should show up in the pull-down list of fonts. They do not.

Yes, I can go in and manually tag each instance of the font weight, but that should not be necessary. It should be accessible from the drop down.

[Jaz]

Hi All,

We agree, we would prefer this to be accessible from the dropdown :-). We'll update the thread when we have more to share and thanks very much for the feedback!

jaz
Program Manager, GWD

[scott.sc...@gmail.com]

Hello! any update on font weights for GWD?

[Jaz]

We have a few text updates coming very soon, although font weight is still being worked on and will not be ready for the next release. We'll update once we have more to share!

thx
jaz
Program Manager, Google Web Designer

[scott.sc...@gmail.com]

Ok thanks for the update!

I somehow was able to get a lighter version of lato to render.... but nothing from a setting within GWD (even trying to change the css.)

I got a lighter lato by copy / pasting from photoshop.

[Jaz]

No problem at all, we've gotten quite a bit of feedback regarding our Text tool :-), so we're quite excited to launch an updated version soon.

Have a wonderful day!

[comed...@gmail.com]

Any update on this? It really is a mission-critical feature.

[Jaz]

Hi,

We hear you, and completely agree! We'll provide an update this Spring (as mentioned in our Nov Hangout on Air) so please stay tuned! I'll update the forum once we have more to share!

thx
jaz
Program Manager
Google Web Designer

[nateispr...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I don't know if this question is appropriate for this forum, but using Lato, I'm familiar with the updates that the foundry made to the font, will you be supporting hairline and semibold?

thanks!

[Jaz]

Hi,

We frequently collaborate with the Google Fonts team, so I will inquire with them regarding their plans to update the font! I'll post as soon as I have an update from the team.

thx!

[nateispr...@gmail.com]

Hi!

Any updates?

best,

[dcros...@google.com]

Hi Everyone

I am heads-down with some new font projects, so I haven't been able to tend to the many updates that are due to existing families.

The good news is that Lato is one of the most popular fonts, and I have this at the top of the list of updates to ship.

The bad news is that I don't expect to ship this update for at least 1 month from today, and it will likely not happen until the middle or end of June.

Thanks for your patience, Google Fonts has some exciting work coming up :)

Cheers
Dave

[Jaz]

Thanks for updating the thread Dave! Glad to hear Lato is going to get an update soon!

[twi...@googlemail.com]

Hia,

Any more progress on this front?

Adding font weight is pretty important when keeping with brand guidlines.

Also text spacing too.

Cheers

[ihsa...@gmail.com]

Any update on this, already 2017. and the GWD still in BETA.

[Kent Myers]

I think it's been stated on this thread that in the meantime, you can still use font weights manually in the CSS panel, like "font-weight: 600;" And you've included that weight in the Google font link tag at the top of your doc in code view.