Custom font issues

I am using a custom font. However, I want to use a different weight (ie bold). Setting fontWeight to bold in the font object does not do it.

It seems I need the bold version of the same font. I tried adding this bold version of the font but could not get it to work.

Anyone know how to use a custom font including different weights in the same font family?

I am using Titanium 1.2.1 and iOS SDK 4.2

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Let's say you have 2 fonts that are the same name but different weights. (ie: (Museo300-Regular.otf and Museo500-Regular.otf)
After you go through the install, plist etc. mentioned above, you do this:
font: {
fontFamily:'Museo-300',
fontSize:24
}
or

font: {
fontFamily:'Museo-500',
fontSize:24
} .

This worked for me : )

— answered July 13th 2012 by dw fresh
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Ken

You have not provided your dev platform and SDK.
Please see this information about the fonts supported on each platform.

Cheers

— answered November 13th 2010 by Paul Dowsett
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Has anyone solved this issue yet? I'm having the same issue with the font Rockwell. I'm trying to only use Rockwell Bold, but it only shows up as Rockwell Regular.

I even tried to resave the bold version of the font in a font editor program to Rockwell Regular, and still no dice.

Any suggestions? My last resort is to find a font similar to Rockwell Bold and use that instead.

I'm using Titanium 1.7.5 and iOS SDK 5.0
— answered January 13th 2012 by Mark Goldsmith
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- Ok nevermind, I just figured out the solution that worked for me (and Rockwell font). I found the solution here:
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6109610/using-a-custom-font-with-bold-text-in-a-uilabel
  
  So the steps I took were:
  
  I followed this video tutorial to add the fonts:
  http://www.rafaelhernandez.org/custom_fonts.mov
  
  I added both Rockwell.ttf and Rockwell_Bold.ttf to the Resources folder, and then added both to the Info.plist in the root of my project.
  
  Then instead of naming the font weight I called Rockwell Bold like this:
```
 font: {
          fontFamily:'Rockwell-Bold',
          fontSize:16
         }
```
  — commented January 13th 2012 by Mark Goldsmith
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