Lato medium/500 weight not served.

[estaub]

The Lato medium/500 weight is present here on GitHub (https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/master/ofl/lato/Lato-Medium.ttf), but is not documented at https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lato, and appears to not be served by the api: the request

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:300,400,500,700" rel="stylesheet">
provides 400 and 500 weights that are identical; I believe they are both 400/regular.

I've no idea whether this is by design, an enhancement request, or a bug.

[davelab6]

Hmm, at https://jsbin.com/bedasam/edit?html,output I see that the 500 is actually LIGHTER than the REGULAR:

@twardoch is the public face of the Lato project... any tips, adam? :)

[estaub]

@davelab6 They look identical to me, fwiw. You might want to verify somehow. Maybe the "5" being larger and less dense than the "4" is fooling your eye?

[estaub]

I've verified that the font files in this project appear to be correct. The problem is downstream somewhere, but fonts.google.com refers me here for any issues, so I don't know a better place to report it.

While I don't know how to confirm it, I expect that medium/500 is not being served at all, and the browser simply falls back to regular/400 when medium/500 is requested.

[davelab6]

So, the reason is that the 500 weight hasn't been plumbed into the API yet; the files in the HEAD of this repo haven't been pushed to the API, and so there is no 500 weight being served.

It is odd that the Android rendering isn't 1:1, and GF engineering @garretrieger said offline,

That's odd, but I don't think it's related to what we're serving for Lato. Possibly android is doing something weird for weight synthesis?

So, right now we are waiting for @twardoch to sort out the hinting in Lato so we can update the version here and push it all the way through to the API.

[ziyafenn]

Still not fixed?

[estaub]

Is this going to be left wrong to avoid breaking apps using 500 with tight spacing? :-(

[ghost]

any news

[controversial]

Google serves only Thin 100, Light 300, Regular 400, Bold 700, and Black 900. Adobe Fonts adds an even lighter Hairline 100 (moving Thin to 200), Medium 500, Semibold 600, and Heavy 800, almost doubling the number of available font weights for Lato. It'd be great if all of the additional weights could be added to Google Fonts as I much prefer the experience Google offers.

[arktds]

I can't wait😪

[controversial]

@m4rc1e @davelab6 is there any path forward to resolving this?

[jonasgoddeeris]

+1

[liamthorpeyoung]

+1

[IslombekHasan]

Ohh, pleaaase! Is it so hard?

[m4rc1e]

@IslombekMe yes. We attempted to update the family before we had a regression tests and we broke the internet. #644

[IslombekHasan]

Wow. This is exactly the moment when i can finally say - With great power, comes great responsibility!

[GautierT]

@m4rc1e any update on this issue ? Thanks.

[mwawrusch]

3 years???

[piotros]

Is there any alternative CDN for this font without this bug?

[Noitidart]

Is there any alternative CDN for this font without this bug?

Same, looking for Lato Alt, is there one available?

[ineshbose]

Ah yes we all unite

[MatkoMilic]

This is causing me issues as well in my React Native project. However after some debugging I realised that Lato Medium can be downloaded elsewhere online and it represents the 500 variant.

[Ajnus]

This is causing me issues as well in my React Native project. However after some debugging I realised that Lato Medium can be downloaded elsewhere online and it represents the 500 variant.

"elsewhere":
https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/main/ofl/lato/Lato-Medium.ttf

[vivek-hs]

This is causing me issues as well in my React Native project. However after some debugging I realised that Lato Medium can be downloaded elsewhere online and it represents the 500 variant.

https://www.latofonts.com/

[noranda]

+1 Are we to assume this will never be fixed?

[piotros]

We assume this won't be fixed. Fixing this problem would change the appearance of thousands of pages.

[DamianGlowala]

There are ways to address this problem without replacing an existing font set (which is indeed a breaking change).

Lato 2 could be added instead with a complete set of weights.

[noranda]

There are ways to address this problem without replacing an existing font set (which is indeed a breaking change).

Lato 2 could be added instead with a complete set of weights.

I actually assumed this was the fix and looked for a supplemental Lato font, but no luck. I ended up just using Adobe Fonts instead but be warned the two Lato's differ very slightly (mostly pixel spacing).

[MatkoMilic]

This is causing me issues as well in my React Native project. However after some debugging I realised that Lato Medium can be downloaded elsewhere online and it represents the 500 variant.

"elsewhere": https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/main/ofl/lato/Lato-Medium.ttf

Yes elsewhere. I presumed programmers can Google :)

[Ajnus]

This is causing me issues as well in my React Native project. However after some debugging I realised that Lato Medium can be downloaded elsewhere online and it represents the 500 variant.

"elsewhere": https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/main/ofl/lato/Lato-Medium.ttf

Yes elsewhere. I presumed programmers can Google :)

What's that?