The specific information contained in the Typographic family name varies depending on the convention used by different font vendors but typically, this field consists of words that describe parameters such as: Most operating systems fail miserably if you install fonts which have the same TFN but come in different formats. In most existing fonts, this information is already set correctly, but you may want to change the TFN if you’re creating a custom version of a font family, or if you’re converting the family into a different format. The font vendor, or the user creating the font, needs to set the TFN for the family. It is sometimes called “Preferred family name”. The Typographic family name (TFN or just “ Family”) is the name under which all fonts from one family are grouped in the font menu of a modern application. It’s also recommended (but not required) that each font within a family has a unique combination of the Weight, Width and Slope parameters.
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Illustration: typographic family name and typographic style name as seen in Mac OS X or Adobe applications. This is typically the case in Mac OS X applications and in Adobe applications, as well as some newest Windows applications. A typographic family (or just: family) is a series of fonts that are listed under the same family name in applications which allow a family with an arbitrary number of fonts.
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