2105.24 - Italic Style Groups and Font File Names Incorrect

[kenmcd]

The style groups are incorrect in the new Italic fonts.
This causes the all the Italic fonts to be in their own style group rather than linked with the related Regular.
Also causes the font file names to be confused.

And the Italic typographic family is also different.

[DHowett]

Sorry, what platform is this on? Windows seems to tolerate it... and link the fonts just fine!

[kenmcd]

Windows 10.
I am seeing the Italic style groups like this:
Cascadia Code Italic - which should be Cascadia Code
Cascadia Mono Italic - which should be Cascadia Mono

Same with the typographic family
Cascadia Code Italic
Cascadia Mono Italic

And the odd file names: CascadiaMonoItalic-Italic.ttf etc.
The file name should be: CascadiaMono-Italic.ttf

[madig]

There is something going on indeed. The Italic fonts have "Italic" in the family name when they shouldn't. See e.g. CascadiaCodeItalic-ExtraLightItalic.otf, name table ID 16: "Cascadia Code Italic" -- ID 16, when present, should just be "Cascadia Code" in all statics. This means that fontconfig on Linux does not pick the Italic font up as the italic of the regular.
And the file name should be just "CascadiaCode-ExtraLightItalic.otf" 😉

[kenmcd]

This means that fontconfig on Linux does not pick the Italic font up as the italic of the regular.

These will not work properly in LibreOffice on Linux or Windows. Or MS Word.

[aaronbell]

Interesting. It appears that the static instances are not propagating properly. While I investigate that, I suggest using the variable font version which works as expected.