How to fix variable fonts warning?

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1

I am using the local version of typst on Fedora. I have this:

#set text(
  font: "Noto Sans",
  size: 11pt,
)

And I get this warning:

warning: variable fonts are not currently supported and may render incorrectly
  ┌─ resume.typ:4:8
  │
4 │   font: "Noto Sans",
  │         ^^^^^^^^^^^
  │
  = hint: try installing a static version of "noto sans" instead

But I don’t know how to do that. I tried specifying Noto Sans Regular instead, but that doesn’t work.

2

Duplicate of

By the way, I can not reproduce ur result, do u use the newest Typst, i.e. v14.2?

3

That question is about silencing the warning, not fixing the problem about variable fonts.

I’m using typst 0.14.2

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4

Hi, welcome to the forum!

Static and variable fonts are two font formats (≈ two kinds of *.otf files). A font may distribute both formats.

You can download static versions of Noto Sans from notofonts.github.io/fonts/NotoSans/unhinted/otf at main · notofonts/notofonts.github.io · GitHub. For example, NotoSans-Regular.otf.

Old answer

You can download static versions of Noto Sans from Noto Dashboard. For example, https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/notofonts/notofonts.github.io/fonts/NotoSans/unhinted/otf/NotoSans-Regular.otf.

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5

Sorry for the late reply.

That doesn’t work for me. When I try to install the font, KDE Plasma says

file:///home/riley/Downloads/NotoSans-Regular.otf contains the font Noto Sans, Regular, which is already installed on your system.

6

Well, most font designers set different names (e.g., Source Han Serif VF vs. Source Han Serif), but Google is an exception.

Two options:

  • Uninstall the variable version and install the static version.
  • Download the static version, and set --font-path or $TYPST_FONT_PATHS to Typst. If you need further details, please tell us your platform (VS Code + Tinymist?).
7

I’m using VSCode and Tinymist, but compiling via the CLI.

Thanks, using --font-path worked.