The Font Info sheet is an interface to edit font naming fields, vertical metrics and other font meta-data. It also holds RoboFont specific defaults that are local to the UFO. Many of the fields have a default value that only needs to be overridden if you have a need to. This means that for a simple font, all you need to fill in is Family Name and Style Name to get a working font. You only need to set the values where the default doesn't match your needs.
An example of this would be creating a eight weight font family where you want to style map the italics to the roman of each weight. To do so, you need to set four names in each font:
My Font Light
- Family Name: My Font
- Style Name: Light
- Style Map Family Name: My Font Light
- Style Map Style: Regular
My Font Light Italic
- Family Name: My Font
- Style Name: Light Italic
- Style Map Family Name: My Font Light
- Style Map Style: Italic
My Font Book
- Family Name: My Font
- Style Name: Book
- Style Map Family Name: My Font Book
- Style Map Style: Regular
My Font Book Italic
- Family Name: My Font
- Style Name: Book Italic
- Style Map Family Name: My Font Book
- Style Map Style: Italic
and so on.
Though RoboFont allows you to only set a few values, you have control of all values —down to setting FOND name info— if you need them:
These values are derived from the Font Info section of the UFO spec.