Make sure that 'Weight' says something meaningful that doesn't clash with your existing fonts (e.g.You want to change Family Name so that all variants have the same family name (in Aller example, Aller Light and and Aller Light Italic have family name Aller Light, change this to Aller).(I remember experiencing a lot of crashes the few times I foolishly tried working on the installed files in system folders.) Best to work on files that aren't installed and aren't in use.Aller is a quite nice smooth friendly sans, but beware the hideous 'Display' variant, which will burn your eyes. An example free font that doesn't fully group for experimentation is Aller, where Aller Light/Light Italic and Aller Display don't group with Aller regular/bold/italic.Load up the fonts which aren't falling into the same group.Install FontForge (open source font editor).I'm not able to test this on a Mac, and the Windows version is too flakey and crash-prone to test, but this should work: RoboFont is also built beautifully in python, so you can execute your own custom scripts if you need. Once you edit the info, simply type Command(⌘) G or choose File.The 2nd tab is OpenType which allows you direct access to the nameTable so you can edit all of that info including style names. The first tab is General which includes an input box for Family Name.It'll slidedown an editor with a few more tabs. For each window, click on the tab Font Info (3rd tab from the left in the toolbar).Who knows, maybe you'll get hooked and buy a license. For this purpose, the 15-day free trial may be all you need. The purchase price on RoboFont is pretty steep, but really, the software is aimed at people who are drawing and editing their own fonts. I recently had to do exactly what you're asking with my copy of Gotham which was installing as individual files and not as a family. It also does what you're looking for: allows you to open individual files and edit their font info and then resave in whatever format you need. RoboFont is a great software (mac only) for font editing on so many levels. If someone wants to outline steps in FontLab or Fontographer, I'm all ears. If there's a paid app to do this, I'm fine with that. I am not absolutely looking for freeware. Running Mac OS 10.7, but can boot to 10.6 or 10.8 if needed. How do I do this with the tool suggested, specific steps please? Are there any basic smaller apps to simply edit the font info without editing character and other tables? I don't want to edit the actual font data specifically, merely the titles and naming structure I believe. I know there are a couple of high-end apps (Fontographer, FontLab). What tool on the Macintosh can combine these faces so they are all listed under the family name? As in the figure B, above. The problem I have is each face is listed separately in various applications (Photoshop, Indesign, etc.) Rather than simply one item with a submenu for faces. These are decent quality fonts with, on average, 8–15 different faces for the family. I've got a few fonts I've purchased over the past few years.

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