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I'm installing this font on my mac: https://github.com/sunaku/tamzen-font

The installation is pretty straightforward: it's enough to go to the app "Font Book", click "Add font" and select the .ttf version of the downloaded font.

The problem is that Font Book see all the different variants of the font as the same: enter image description here

If I try to resolve the conflict manually, it just makes me choose the version to keep, and it doesn't understand that all those versions are different.

How can I make sure I can import all the different variants of the font?

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It looks like the fonts have been created incorrectly.

Each font needs to have a unique font name, e.g. Tamzen-14 and Tamzen-15 can't both be "Tamzen".

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All the Medium weights have the same full name of "Tamzen".

If fonts have the same font name -- the internal fontname, not the filename -- then FontBook will treat them as duplicates.

Either they should all be in the Tamzen family, but with their Styles indicating each size and weight, e.g. Style: "14 Bold" and "14 Regular", "15 Bold", "15 Regular";

or they should be in different font family names, each with Bold and Medium, e.g. "Tamzen 14" Medium and Bold, and "Tamzen 15" Medium and Bold.

The licence gives you permission to modify the fonts: you will need to use a font editor like FontForge to change the names of each font to something unique.
This has been mentioned before.

You should also file an issue with the developer.

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