Hi, as others said, font-name overwrites all of font-family, font-series and font-shape. You can set the font family like this:
\version "2.19.84" \paper { % define a font ‘arial’ from the font called ‘Arial’ #(add-pango-fonts fonts 'arial "Arial" (/ (* staff-height pt) 2.5)) } % use the font family ‘arial’ in your markup or header markup \markup \override #'(font-family . arial) \line { \bold "Bold" \italic "italic" "regular" } HTH Joram