#1051064 fonts-b612: The package is either missing or has mislabled the regular font style.

#1051064#5
Date:
2023-09-01 21:10:03 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

After installing the package, the regular font style is italizised.
There is no regular font style available.

If I install the fonts manually from upstream it functions correctly.

#1051064#10
Date:
2023-12-18 06:28:59 UTC
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Hi Brad

Can you tell me in which software the problem occurs?

Best,

#1051064#15
Date:
2024-12-22 11:23:16 UTC
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Hi folks,

I just learned about the B612 font, and after installing the fonts-b612
package (version 1.008-4 on a Testing/Trixie system) also experienced
this issue.
The "normal" version gets rendered both italicised and bold - though I
notice not with the same weight or italicisation as the explicit "bold
italic" version of the font.

However, some applications do render it correctly!

Font displayed correctly in:
- Firefox
- GIMP
- Chromium

"Normal" displayed as bold and italic:
- KDE Plasma font settings
- Krita


Though most unusual is obs-studio. If you create a text layer, the font
shows correctly when rendering the text overlay and preview, but on the
font selection UI the name of the font is rendered as bold and italic!

So given the applications affected and unaffected, perhaps this is
something specific to how KDE/Qt handles the font?


- Mel