Looking for semibold version of erewhon

Question

I am looking for defining a semibold Erewhon font for text mode. If there is none I'd be willing to fake it in the same manner as https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/290036/194729 but I don't how I can adapt that snippet.

Answer 1

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{erewhon}
\begin{document}


One two three four five six.

{\fontspec[FakeBold=1,LetterSpace=.5]{erewhon} One two three four five six.}

{\fontspec[FakeBold=2,LetterSpace=1]{erewhon} One two three four five six.}

{\fontspec[FakeBold=3,LetterSpace=1.7]{erewhon} One two three four five six.}

{\bfseries One two three four five six.}
\end{document}

Answer 2

No real chance to get it with pdflatex, but you can use FakeBold with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX.

You also want to define an interface for semibold.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}

\setmainfont{Erewhon}[
  Extension=.otf,
  UprightFont=*-Regular,
  ItalicFont=*-Italic,
  BoldFont=*-Bold,
  BoldItalicFont=*-BoldItalic,
  FontFace={sb}{n}{Font=*-Regular,FakeBold=3},
  FontFace={sb}{it}{Font=*-Italic,FakeBold=3},
]

\DeclareRobustCommand{\sbseries}{\fontseries{sb}\selectfont}
\DeclareTextFontCommand{\textsb}{\sbseries}

\begin{document}

Medium, \textsb{Semibold}, \textbf{Bold}

{\itshape Medium, \textsb{Semibold}, \textbf{Bold}}

\end{document}

If you want to replace boldface with the (faked) semibold:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}

\setmainfont{Erewhon}[
  Extension=.otf,
  UprightFont=*-Regular,
  ItalicFont=*-Italic,
  BoldFont=*-Regular,
  BoldItalicFont=*-Italic,
  BoldFeatures={FakeBold=3},
  BoldItalicFeatures={FakeBold=3},
]

\begin{document}

Medium \textbf{Bold}

{\itshape Medium, \textbf{Bold}}

\end{document}