For a design comp, I quickly selected a Google font, Encode Sans. Because it comes in lots of weights thin, extra light, light, regular, medium, semi-bold, bold, extra-bold, and black. WONDERFUL!
Such glorious options.
And then quadruple over these options with Condensed, Semi Condensed, Semi Expanded, and Expanded families—each with 9 weights. This isn’t just a family of fonts, it’s a SUPER-FAMILY.
After two days of designing with this font, I need an italic. Guess what.
No italic.
What’s that lyric from the 90s?… “It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife” —Alanis Morissette (Side note: when googling: spoon knife lyrics, this song is only about the 8th result!)
I have ten thousand regular typefaces, but all I need is an italic.
I’m gonna cheat and use Roboto Italic.
SSSSSHHHHH!