Hello, everyone!
I just downloaded Scrivener and am using the trial version for Mac. I like to use Garamond as a font for all of my writing. However, EB Garamond is the only option on Scrivener and it, for some reason, cannot be bolded or italicized. All the other fonts I have tested can.
Can I somehow install a regular Garamond font? Or request for one to be put in?
Thanks in advanced!
I am not sure how to edit this post, but I can make words italicized. It seems as if they only cannot be bolded!
Credit @ViktorSirin
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Mac Scrivener depends on Mac OS for font management. Consult the Font Book utility to see what fonts are installed, and Appleās documentation to see how to install new ones.
If a font canāt be bolded, usually that means that there is no bold variant installed.
EB Garamond was designed by Georg Duffer, and his original does NOT contain bold versions in the releases:
If you use this version (itās the version I have installed as homebrew is great to install fonts: brew install font-eb-garamond, no faffing with webpage, zips and keeping things updated, though in this case it uses the original project)
Google, recognising how awesome this font is, commissioned another designer to finish the bold version. There are therefore two versions, an original with no bold and a googleified version with bold, Wikipedia shares the details:
In general I really dislike Google fonts as they tend to have older/outdated versions of fonts, missing updated glyphs or kerning tables and other important features. However in this case, the google fonts version is probably the one to getā¦
There is another Garamond with many styles and opentype features available you may want to look at:
https://www.behance.net/gallery/28579883/Cormorant-an-open-source-display-font-family
Test quickly with homebrew: brew install font-cormorant-garamond
It has slightly more legible italics at small sizes, but I prefer the rougher nature of EB Garmaond (it is heavier at the same weight, like ink leaked a bit on the paper); I like my historical revivals with imperfections 
Of course, we might also encourage the OP to reflect on their desire for boldface in the first place. If we a talking about typesetting body text for fiction, a good rule of thumb is: italics for emphasis, no bold, no underline, no all caps. There may be exceptional cases, but good typographical hygiene comes first!
Small caps are usually for when quoting a sign : DO NOT ENTER ā®in small caps, rather than āDo not enterā.
I donāt think it is mandatory, but Iāve often seen it formatted like that. Stephen King, to name one author (perhaps youāve heard of him?), most systematically does it like that.
Otherwise, no, of all the novels Iāve read in my life, I canāt recall even once seeing bold text. (Titles and sub-titles, perhaps, but not actual text.)
It has nothing to do with it being a sign (or any other specific medium), but with the fact the sign is printed in all caps.
Small caps serve the same purpose as text figures (often called āold-style numeralsā): To better blend in with the text body.
Iāve yet to meet anyone who calmly speaks in all-caps. (Of course it is a sign. Conveniently always all-caps in the authorās imagination. What a coincidence.)
But thereās also no need to shout UNESCO. Or any other acronym. Unless shouting it is the important part and needs to be visualized.
Certainly in my experience the most common use of SMALL CAPS is for acronyms.
This and ālead-insā probably. (The first few words at the beginning of a chapter in small caps.)
