I’ve just noticed that Splentino Regular and Splentino Italic have different line height. The descender is -250 in Regular and -200 in Italic.
Yes, you’re right that they should be the same. I’m not sure how that happened.
Outside of Dorico, most text apps can specify an absolute value for leading, e.g. 11pt on 13pt, so that shouldn’t be a problem; but Dorico’s leading is relative to the line height. If you are setting a block of Italic within Dorico, you’ll need to compensate the leading.
I do have an update to Splentino in the works (largely improving the legibility of diacritics), so I can make this correction.
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This would be very helpful, thank you. BTW, Splentino is amazing for lyrics, feels just right 
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This might be a good opportunity for me to point out another issue with Splentino (and Nepomuk) that might be related to this one. I was going to start a new thread, but since this issue might be related, and I don’t know enough about the inner workings of font software to know, it might be easier this way.
I don’t know if we can (or are supposed to) use these typefaces in other applications, but since they’re installed into the font menu when Dorico is installed, I would think that they would work just like any others. However, there must be a problem with style linking.
Whenever I try to use these typefaces in MS Word, or any other program that relies on Bold and Italic switches, some styles are missing. This seems to be a problem mostly with the Italic switches, but sometimes I get Italic and not Regular. These issues do not appear with Academico, so I know that the problem is with these fonts specifically.
Yes, you should be able to use these fonts in any application: they are standard fonts.
I’m not sure that this is a universal problem. Are you on Windows? Windows font management is a nightmare, from what I can gather. Make sure that the fonts are installed and enabled in the font utility app. Windows will ‘invent’ Italic styles if they are not present.
On Windows, this appears to be something confined to Microsoft apps.
All 4 Splentino font files are installed and show up correctly in the Windows font folder and my 3rd party font utility (MainType). All 4 varieties work correctly for me in InDesign and Affinity, but in Word/PowerPoint/Publisher I get the faked italic shown above.
We had some bother with this in Win Word with Nepomuk – particularly getting the SC variants as separate family that didn’t interfere; but I thought it had been sorted out ages ago.
These are the settings in my font creation app, which are correct as far as I can tell.
Windows/Office uses the “Style Group” to collate fonts into groups of 4 – Reg, Ital, Bold, Bold Ital.
I’ll do more investigating and ask on the font forums. I’ve inspected other commercial fonts, and can’t see any difference.
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I agree that the font info looks correct in MainType, but I don’t know enough about font creation to help diagnose.
@Serioso reports that he’s seeing the same thing with both Nepomuk and Splentino, and I can confirm that (in MS appps).
When I look it up in Glyphs3, the “Style Linking: This instance is the Italics of“ is empty in Splentino Italic. It is set to “Regular“ in other commercial fonts (e.g. AkzidenzGroteskPRO-It).
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I don’t have/use Glyphs, but I think that @SugarFree may have hit upon the problem here. I’ll see if I can open these font files in another editor to see what they report.
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I may have produced a version that works. I don’t know why – and I’m using FontLab, so any solution needs to identify the settings in that app.
I’ll PM those who have expressed an interest to help here with a version for testing.
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I’d most definitely be interested (just to clarify) - after all, as someone who has seen the problem first-hand, I’d be able to see if it’s fixed, too. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to detect any obvious bug in a font editor - as I remarked previously, I’m not familiar enough with them.
I’m sure you know this, but it looks like the relevant options in FontLab are: Style Group and Style Link.
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Yes, of course. And as far as I can tell, those values are correct. Anyway, as said, I have a version that appears to work on Win Word. I will PM @SugarFree and @Serioso with revised versions when they are ready.