Fonts Appearing Incorrectly

Aethozoid wrote on 7/11/2023, 6:43 PM

I have a preferred Google font that I use called Lexend. I'm trying to use it with Movie Studio 2023 Platinum, and I've run into a couple issues.

Firstly, I have the whole font family downloaded, consisting of Thin, ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold, and Black. Only "regular" appears as the correct font, the rest appear as Arial. Looking into that issue, I found that the font files needed to be installed for all users, outside the user folder. Seeing that they weren't, I uninstalled the font files and reinstalled them for all users, and I checked in the Windows 11 font settings menu that the font is installed in the correct folder (C:\WINDOWS\FONTS\LEXEND-VARIABLEFONT_WGHT.TTF). I restarted my computer and tested it in a new Movie Studio file, but the issue persists.

Secondly, adding a border effect to the text in the Title Editing window creates some awful distortion on some of the characters, which seems to be the case for only the Lexend font. It seems to mess with the width of some of the lines in a weird way. I did a test export to see if the problem was only in playback, but it showed up just the same in the exported file. Increasing the border width to absurd levels makes it go away, but that's a less than ideal solution.

Is it just me or does Movie Studio have a special hatred for this font in particular?

Program settings:
Program: MAGIX Movie Studio 2023 Platinum
Version: 22.0.3.172 (UDP3)
Hardware Acceleration:
- Import: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
- Processing: CPU
- Export: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

System specs:
Edition:   Windows 11 Home
Version:   22H2
OS build:   22621.1992
Graphics Card:   NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
Processor:   13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700K 3.40 GHz
Installed RAM:   32.0 GB (31.8 GB usable)
System type:   64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Comments

Former user wrote on 7/12/2023, 6:37 AM

I have a preferred Google font that I use called Lexend. I'm trying to use it with Movie Studio 2023 Platinum, and I've run into a couple issues.

Firstly, I have the whole font family downloaded, consisting of Thin, ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold, and Black. Only "regular" appears as the correct font, the rest appear as Arial. Looking into that issue, I found that the font files needed to be installed for all users, outside the user folder. Seeing that they weren't, I uninstalled the font files and reinstalled them for all users, and I checked in the Windows 11 font settings menu that the font is installed in the correct folder (C:\WINDOWS\FONTS\LEXEND-VARIABLEFONT_WGHT.TTF). I restarted my computer and tested it in a new Movie Studio file, but the issue persists.

@Aethozoid Hi, I have Windows 10 so it might be different but would you show pictures of "the rest appear as Arial"

I downloaded the Lexend Family & the main options seem to do as expected , here Lexend ExtraBold

When i downloaded the files, after extracting them I dragged them into this window in settings, I didn't do what you mentioned "installed in the correct folder (C:\WINDOWS\FONTS\LEXEND-VARIABLEFONT_WGHT.TTF)." I've never had to do that but I don't know if Windows 11 is different somehow?

---------

The border tho is messed up, on my PC it looks like yours does, still working on that but the online page says "Lexend fonts are intended to reduce visual stress and so improve reading performance..etc..." so maybe they've altered the font in some way ..

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lexend/about

----------

PS. they work as expected in Vegas 🤷‍♂️

johnebaker wrote on 7/12/2023, 8:30 AM

@Aethozoid, @Former user

The Lexend font zip package has 2 types of font:

The Variable font in all versions in one package - Lexend-VariableFont_wght.ttf - this works as expected in Movie Studio and VPX.
A folder containing a series of Static fonts - these do not work in MMS/VPX and should not be installed - doing so is known to cause issues also with other programs.

HTH

John EB
Forum Moderator

Former user wrote on 7/12/2023, 9:10 AM

The Variable font in all versions in one package - Lexend-VariableFont_wght.ttf - this works as expected in Movie Studio and VPX.

@johnebaker I added the Lexend-VariableFont_wght to my system.

Look at the border on my pic & the ones above by the OP.

PS. the other options don't change from Arial as the OP says with that Lexend-VariableFont_wght choice, but i just added the Static ones & they do change, I don't know why it worked earlier & both options have problems with the border.

I'm going to reset MMS & clean my system.

johnebaker wrote on 7/12/2023, 9:52 AM

@Former user

In your image you have the Drop Shadow turned on, the Border option is one to the left

John EB

Former user wrote on 7/12/2023, 10:04 AM

@johnebaker The first image at the top i was just showing that the Bold option was working, that's why i wrote

the main options seem to do as expected , here Lexend ExtraBold

but then at the bottom of that comment i wrote

The border tho is messed up, on my PC it looks like yours does

In my pic above Border is on, the shadow seems to be on by default on mine, I've deleted that Lexend font now but i did find another MMS doesn't like, I only add ttf not otf or other kinds because Boris Title Studio only likes ttf, turning off the shadow made no difference.

johnebaker wrote on 7/12/2023, 11:09 AM

@Former user

Hi Gid

Since testing the Lexend font I am now getting very odd behaviour with other fonts, which used to work, either not being usable, ie I select it but the font is not loaded - the dropdown font selector does not change either, or weird results eg spiking as you have seen with the Bahnschrift font.

Looks to me to be a Font and/or Windows issue, as the inability to select some fonts is also now occuring in other programs, eg Paintshop Pro and Xara Web Designer.

John EB

Former user wrote on 7/12/2023, 11:18 AM

@johnebaker Hmm that's not good, like i say I've uninstalled that Lexend font but i'm seeing that, I only got to B

Aethozoid wrote on 7/12/2023, 11:20 PM

@Former user, @johnebaker

What I did originally was install the font family by right-clicking the Lexend-VariableFont_wght.ttf file and selecting the "Install for all users" option. The file location I provided is where they were installed according to the Windows 11 font menu.

Against johnebaker's warning, I tried installing each of the .ttf files in the static folder individually just to test it, and it actually fixed the fonts appearing as Arial! Lexend Regular still looks messed up when given a border, however, as well as the rest of the fonts in the family, and in the exact same ways too, it seems. A bit odd that folowing the recommendation caused part of the problem, but I'm just glad that problem's fixed. Now I just need the distortion with the border fixed.

Thank you for the responses so far!