For layered fonts, what is the most common and preferrable naming scheme?
- Foobar-Regular, Foobar-Bold, Foobar-RegularShadow, Foobar-BoldShadow
- Foobar-Regular, Foobar-Bold, FoobarShadow-Regular, FoobarShadow-Bold
The former (using the Preferred family, name table id 16, and preferred style, name id 17 fields) is easier to output from a single project in FontLab 7, and is commonly supported in apps, but is not supported by at least one application: GIMP.
The latter requires manual manipulation of the font files after export or several exporting runs with changing names in between (at least in FontLab).
I was going to ask FontLab to make a change to support the second scheme, but I wanted to gain some support here first.