[Tex/LaTex] Bold weight for custom font

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I just found out today about the fontspec package, which I find very useful for fonts that I have installed system-wide.

I'm a big fan of handwriting-like fonts and I happen to love Pecita. So much that I am using it for some articles that I write, for personal use. However, it doesn't come with Bold weight, so I created one for myself, using FontForge. All is going well, OS X recognises this weight now (that I included in the family Pecita), except for LaTeX… So I can use Pecita Bold in Pages, say, but not in LaTeX.

What am I doing wrong? The font appears to be good, it is listed in FontBook (the family Pecita now has Regular and Bold weights), but if I use \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Pecita}, it doesn't use bold when I call it with {\bf Some text that I want in bold}

Here's my entire document to see if there are any redundancies or conflicts:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsfonts}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage[margin=1.3in]{geometry}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[all]{xy}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat*{\section}{\large\bfseries}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{framed}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[romanian]{babel}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Pecita}
\usepackage{eulervm}
\begin{document}
\section{This should be bold}
\textbf{This also should be bold}
This is not bold.
\end{document}

If it matters, I am using OS X 10.10.1 with MacTeX and Texpad.

Please excuse me if there is something wrong with my post, but it's my first here.

Thank you for your attention.

Best Answer

When fontspec doesn’t find the bold or italic of a font, you sometimes have to help it along. If the font’s name is Pecita Bold, \setmainfont{Pecita}[BoldFont={* Bold}] should work (in older versions of fontspec, use \setmainfont[BoldFont={* Bold}]{Pecita}). Section 5.1 of the fontspec documentation gives more information about this.

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