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Re: Why is my font ugly
Well, you've solved one problem. The upper-case eszet looks upper-case and looks like an eszet.2 -
Re: Grid Test of Letters
Possibly he had heard of what he calls "Grid Test" in some foreign language, and his translation of the name in that language into English does not match the English-language technical ter…1 -
Re: Grid Test of Letters
the left side of n and right side of u are constants.1 -
Re: Fontlab not responding
I strongly recommend posting your query to the FontLab Forum. You should also open a support ticket. Do you have the FontLab VI ‘Output’ panel open? This may provide feedback on the error, although i…3 -
Re: Grid Test of Letters
The right side of u is often a constant, but because it isn’t symetrical in a serif type, with serif at both top and bottom, there are designs in which uv uw uy might kern.3 -
Re: Small Capitals
You probably want to modulate the amount of width gain in smallcaps across the weight range. Your heaviest weight uppercase letters are already proportionally much squarer than the lighter weights, s…1 -
Re: Grid Test of Letters
Heh. It never crossed my mind to use a pair of letters as spacing keys, but I can immediately see the benefit: nuanubnucnudnuenufnugnuhnuinujnuknulnumnu...2 -
Re: Grid Test of Letters
These are called test strings or as Arnold Bank used to call "necklaces". My favorite lowercase necklace is "nu" between each lowercase glyph. As John Hudson says, for sidebearing…4 -
Re: Grid Test of Letters
For reviewing primary (non-kerning) spacing, I find the best test to be between key glyphs that do not usually require kerning. For Latin uppercase, this is usually HAHBCHDHEHFHGHHHIHJHKHLHMH... Lati…3 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Font Studio was very nice, but a little buggy. And it didn't get many updates before Letraset stopped working on it. Eventually it was bought by Adobe. Not sure what they did with it. [Edit: Act…1
