Importing a Semibold font to QML - qt

Question

I am trying to import a Semibold font, in particular, the Montserrat Semibold variant to QML. In order to do so, I'm using the following code:
FontLoader{
id: semi
source: "Montserrat-SemiBold.ttf"
}
Where Montserrat-SemiBold.ttf is the following file:
And then I try to visualize it on screen with the Text type:
Text{
text: Math.round(100*progress.value) + "%"
anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
font.pixelSize: qmlCfg.fontSize
color: "black"
font.family: semi.name
font.bold: true
}
The problem is that the text appears to be bold, and not semibold, as I was expecting:
As you can see, this 35% looks more bold than semibold to me:
Do you know how to fix this? If I set font.bold: false, the text changes to the regular variant, which is not what I want either.

Answer 1

Are you sure that your font is properly loaded? For me this example gives the correct output as shown in the screenshot.
Besides the font.bold property there is also font.weight on which you can set the weight of semi bold (600), but as you can see in my example it doesn't have an impact on the text as the font only includes one font weight which is semi bold (600). This you can also see in the console output added to the FontLoader.
Output
qml: Font weight 600
Example
import QtQuick
Window {
title: "Font"
width: 1000
height: 240
visible: true
FontLoader {
id: webFont
source: "qrc:/Montserrat-SemiBold.ttf"
Component.onCompleted: console.log("Font weight", webFont.font.weight)
}
component TestText: Text {
text: "Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity"
font.family: webFont.font.family
font.pixelSize: 48
}
Column {
TestText {}
TestText { font.weight: 600 }
TestText { font.bold: true }
}
}
.
├── assets.qrc
├── CMakeLists.txt
├── main.cpp
├── main.qml
└── Montserrat-SemiBold.ttf
assets.qrc
<RCC>
<qresource prefix="/">
<file>Montserrat-SemiBold.ttf</file>
</qresource>
</RCC>
CMakeLists.txt
...
set(CMAKE_AUTORCC ON)
qt_add_executable(appuntitledStackoverflow
assets.qrc
main.cpp
)
...