Today I encountered a situation where the font Roboto is not displayed correctly in CorelDraw, but OK with other applications.
The font family was downloaded from Google Fonts.
A bunch of the fonts in the Roboto family (and Roboto Slab) won't load properly in CorelDRAW 2022 at all on either my work desktop or my notebook at home. The typeface of the piece of selected text gets changed into default Arial when I try to apply certain styles of Roboto. The same happens for a bunch of other typefaces downloaded from the Google Fonts web site.
I downloaded the Roboto font family and I had issues only with normal. I went back to the site and selected each version of the font manually, downloaded them and installed the normal version and now it and all the rest of the family work.
The Slab version was downloaded as individual formats and installed they seem to work.
I'll have to go back to the Google Fonts site and check if some of the families that have been giving me trouble have had any updates. The problems I've been seeing with certain typefaces from Google Fonts have been persistent on both my work desktop and my notebook at home. Plus the errors repeat on a couple other computers at my work. The fonts just want to turn into Arial when selected. The Win10 and Win11 operating systems don't seem to make a difference.The latest issue I've seen involves the brand new Roboto Flex typeface. This has even more variable axes than Roboto Serif. The problem is only the first five variable axes show up in CorelDRAW. There are a whopping 11 variable axes in this typeface (Weight, Width, Slant, Ascender Height, Counter Width, Descender Depth, Figure Height, Grade, Lowercase Height, Thin Stroke and Uppercase Height). All 11 show up in Adobe Illustrator.
I only see 5 axes for the flex also.
How do you download individual font? I select one and the only download option is "Download all"
Roboto Flex is an OpenType Variable typeface. I'm assuming Google is really pushing users harder to rely on the variable functions rather than use static weights. There is only one single TrueType font file in the Static folder. With Roboto Serif the static folder had something like 40 sub-folders, each containing several static TTFs. Not this time with Roboto Flex. Gotta install the Variable version and rely on the variable axis sliders to generate the desired appearance. That's going to require CorelDRAW version 2020 or later.
99.99% of users won't care. I downloaded and installed them, I did some testing and uninstalled them, they can rest on the server I have zero use for that font. Getting ugly fonts for free is still just ugly, I'll wait to use them when I'm forced into it.