: Is there a standard rule for which face in a family is the default? The Avenir family that ships with Mac OS X comes with twelve faces. Avenir Book and Avenir Roman both have 400 weight,

The Avenir family that ships with Mac OS X comes with twelve faces. Avenir Book and Avenir Roman both have 400 weight, normal font-stretch, and are not italicized.

I'm building a product that lets users write text in custom fonts that they upload. Is there a standard way to determine which font in a family should be used by default? Is there some kind of setting in the fonts themselves that I'm missing that would tell me that?

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As suggested by Scott, it really depends on what the font foundry decided to name the variants. 'Book', 'Regular', 'Medium' or even 'Normal' are variants I have encountered. Variants named 'Book' may be as heavy as other foundry's 'Medium' and vice versa.

tl;dr There's no fixed rule, let yourself be guided by the font face names but don't be bound by them.

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