I'll delete these frame, make copies of the originals, and press Cmd-Shift-I. It's almost like the developers of this font said, "Let's avoid all the confusion and fix the problem "by forcing the user to manually apply "the fonts that they want." All right, let's try our experiment again, and this time, we'll use the keyboard shortcut to apply italic, Cmd-Shift-I on the Mac, Ctrl-Shift-I on Windows. I'll make a copy of the text frame, press Cmd-Shift-B, and nothing happens. Okay, how about our open type fonts? Let's see if those do any better. Very strange, apply the command again to see if we can undo, and now they're all Helvetica Neue Light.
I'll option or alt drag to make a new copy of the frame, press Cmd-Shift-B, and now all four fonts are switched to Helvetica Neue Bold. Let's try the same experiment for the True Type Helvetica Neue. There's no getting back to the original four fonts I had without undoing and manually applying those fonts again. What I end up with is, both the blacks now became Helvetica Type One Light, and the bold stays stuck at bold. I'll press Esc to select the frame, and press Cmd-Shift-B. The bold remained bold, and the black remained black. If I put my cursor in here, I can see the fonts, and Helvetica Type One Light is now Helvetica Black. And what I get is almost completely unexpected. With the frame selected, I can apply the bold command to all the text in it by pressing Cmd-Shift-B here on the Mac, or Ctrl-Shift-B on Windows. First, I'll make a copy of the top text frame, via Option or alt dragging across, just so we can see the before and after effects. Let's apply bold to them and see the results that we get. Here, I'm in Adobe InDesign, and in my document, I have a bunch of samples of Helvetica using type one postscript, true type, and open type fonts. But you need to be cautious using those things, because sometimes, they can yield inconsistent and unexpected results. Whenever you're working with text, you'll come across situations where you need to make something bold or italic, and of course, most applications offer you handy buttons or keyboard shortcuts for this purpose.
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