Using book weight of New Computer Modern for text. | Typst | Page 1

placid shoal Oct 14, 2023, 8:48 AM

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How can I use New Computer Modern Book Weight font for text? The default is regular weight, which is too thin for being looking at on screen.

calm fable Oct 14, 2023, 8:51 AM

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set text(weight: ..)

placid shoal Oct 14, 2023, 8:53 AM

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I believe that book weight is another version of font instead a weight?

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Left: regular, Right: medium

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They look the same, while bold is, well... too bold

calm fable Oct 14, 2023, 8:56 AM

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semibold maybe?

placid shoal Oct 14, 2023, 8:57 AM

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calm fable semibold maybe?

It looks the same as bold

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This is another file I wrote in latex, using book weight font

calm fable Oct 14, 2023, 8:58 AM

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you can try just using a number, but it might be that our version isn't so granular with weights

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how did you get the book weight on LaTeX?

placid shoal Oct 14, 2023, 8:59 AM

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Following this instruction

grand pier Oct 14, 2023, 8:59 AM

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Did you try picking the book font by name instead of relying on weight?

placid shoal Oct 14, 2023, 9:00 AM

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I tried, but all fall back to default

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The fonts are here

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What fc-list looks

grand pier Oct 14, 2023, 9:01 AM

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Do you have the font installed on your system? Because I don't think typst ships with the book weight

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I don't have access to a computer rn, but there's a command to see which fonts typst has found

placid shoal Oct 14, 2023, 9:02 AM

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What is it? Let me try

thin moon Oct 14, 2023, 9:02 AM

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typst fonts

grand pier Oct 14, 2023, 9:03 AM

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As an aside, if you want a heavier font, the stix two fonts are great.

placid shoal Oct 14, 2023, 9:03 AM

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Seems it doesn't, make sense

thin moon Oct 14, 2023, 9:04 AM

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You can include font directories with —font-path iirc?

grand pier Oct 14, 2023, 9:04 AM

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If it's detected as just a weight of the font it wouldn't be listed there separately

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Can typst fonts list all the weights as well @thin moon ?

placid shoal Oct 14, 2023, 9:08 AM

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I think "book" may be a style of the font, as fc-list says

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But the style user can choose is hardcoded

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Can I directly load the otf file, using, maybe absolute path?

thin moon Oct 14, 2023, 9:10 AM

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placid shoal The fonts are here

But it’s a separate file here right?

grand pier Oct 14, 2023, 9:10 AM

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@formal fiber

placid shoal Oct 14, 2023, 9:11 AM

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thin moon But it’s a separate file here right?

Yep

formal fiber Oct 14, 2023, 9:11 AM

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Try typst fonts --variants

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Book is weight 450

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Normal is weight 400

grand pier Oct 14, 2023, 9:12 AM

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Sorry for the ping. You should be taking the weekend off!

formal fiber Oct 14, 2023, 9:12 AM

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Typst defaults to 450 for equations because New CM Book fits better with Linux Libertine.

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show math.equation: set text(weight: 400) should select the normal weight

formal fiber Oct 14, 2023, 9:13 AM

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grand pier Sorry for the ping. You should be taking the weekend off!

Don't worry

placid shoal Oct 14, 2023, 9:13 AM

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seems the math font has the weight, but not the text font

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This also shows that typst does not find my system fonts

grand pier Oct 14, 2023, 9:15 AM

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placid shoal This also shows that typst does not find my system fonts

Are they actually system fonts, or installed with texlive?

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Regardless, you can specify a path for fonts

placid shoal Oct 14, 2023, 9:16 AM

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grand pier Are they actually system fonts, or installed with texlive?

Installed with texlive, but I do have the conf file at /etc/fonts/conf.d

grand pier Oct 14, 2023, 9:17 AM

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I'm not a Linux user, so I don't know if that should be sufficient

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I just know that typst finds my Windows fonts without issue

placid shoal Oct 14, 2023, 9:19 AM

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It works

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Thank you very much!

#Using book weight of New Computer Modern for text.