In Fontographer 5, you only need to set some basic technical parameters to generate a font. Turn on Preferences > General > Asian CJK font editing and turn on Vertical in a Metrics Window to edit the top and bottom sidebearings.Ĭontrol just the essential settings and let Fontographer do the rest Use Kerning Assistance to set equivalent pairs for glyph groups/classes, for example accented characters. Turn on Kerning in the Metrics Window or use Edit Kerning to manually edit kerning pairs. Use Auto Kern to automatically generate kerning pairs for glyph pairs that need placement correction. Use Metrics Assistance to copy metrics to other glyphs. Use the Metrics Window to manually tweak the glyph metrics. Use Auto Space to automatically set the metrics (widths and sidebearings) of all or some glyphs. The distances between the contours and the advance width on each side of the glyph are called sidebearings. Your glyph contours are drawn inside the advance width (but may also overhang outside the width). If a kerning pair is defined between two glyphs, the 2nd glyph’s placement is shifted by the kerning pair value. Then, the 2nd glyph is placed at the text cursor. When you type text using a font, each glyph appears and the text cursor is shifted by this glyph’s advance width. The Metrics Window lets you set the width, sidebearings and kerningĮach glyph is a design on an advance width. Create intermediate weights with Blend Fonts. Make the glyphs lighter or bolder with Change Weight. Measure distances with the Measurement tool, and use arbitrary vector shapes as guides in the Guidelines layer. Turn template bitmaps into outlines with precise Auto Trace. Place curves and bitmaps into the Template layer for reference. Scale, Rotate, Slant losslessly thanks to the fractional precision, Align Points to Grid to snap the points to preview the final font outlines in integer coordinates.ĭraw on the Outline layer. Turn on Auto Curvature to keep nodes extra-smooth. Remove nodes manually with Merge Points and automatically with Clean Up Paths while keeping the shapes of the curves. Draw calligraphic strokes with the pressure-sensitive Calligraphy Pen.Īdd nodes and slice through segments with Knife. Draw geometric shapes with the Rectangle or Polygon tools (including stars and rounded corners), and with the Ellipse tool. Originally developed by the same team as the drawing program Freehand, Fontographer (or “ FOG”) was the first software product on the Mac ever to include Bézier drawing tools, and is still famous for its clean, robust and easy-to-use user interface.ĭraw curves with the classic Bézier Pen tool or use the Curve, Corner, Tangent, Arc tools to build your outline step-by-step.
Color OpenType (TTF+SVG, +COLR, +CBDT, +sbix).FontLab now supports color and variability, so you can explore these new possibilities and expand your creative reach. But they reconsidered and streamlined every function.įontLab VI also gives you groundbreaking new drawing tools and responsive contour operations to make your design process easier and more efficient, whether you’re an expert or a beginner. FontLab brought in the best of their classic apps, FontLab Studio and Fontographer, including many familiar keyboard FontLab shortcuts. It is an all-around font editor, but also supports data interchange with other font creation tools, making it easy to integrate into your existing workflows.
With FontLab (was FontLab Studio), you can create, open, modify, draw, space, kern, hint, and export desktop, web, color, and variable fonts. Processor type(s) & speed: 64-bit processor
0 kommentar(er)
