Can't get QSettings to write my settings properly - c++

Question

So I have the tutorial project Notepad. I am trying to use QSettings so that it saves the font,font size and other font related options in a file but it never loads them properly and when I check the config file, the values look quite weird.
void Notepad::saveSettings()
{
QSettings setting("MyTE","myte");
QFont font = this->font();
setting.beginGroup("MainWindow");
setting.setValue("text.font",font.toString());
setting.setValue("text.font.family",font.family());
setting.setValue("text.font.size",font.pointSize());
setting.setValue("text.font.bold",font.bold());
setting.setValue("text.font.italic",font.italic());
setting.endGroup();
qDebug() << "Saved";
}
void Notepad::loadSettings(){
QSettings setting ("MyTE","myte");
QFont font = setting.value("text.font",QString()).toString();
setting.beginGroup("MainWindow");
QString fontFamily = setting.value("text.font.family",QString()).toString();
int fontSize = setting.value("text.font.size",12).toInt();
setting.setValue("text.font.size",fontSize);
//bool fontIsBold = setting.value("text.font.bold",false).toBool();
//bool fontIsItalic = setting.value("text.font.italic",false).toBool();
setFont(font);
font.setPointSize(fontSize);
setting.endGroup();
qDebug() << "Loaded";
}
I uncommented the bold ones because they simply don't work.
I have 2 buttons that correspond to these 2 functions and I also call loadSettings() when the app first starts.
Here is the output in the config file, that never changes and just resets to these weird values.
[MainWindow]
text.font=",9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0"
text.font.bold=false
text.font.family=
text.font.italic=false
text.font.size=9