Hi Everybody, I'm Valerio Dell'Edera from Hederae Creative Shop. I sell some custom typefaces on Creative Market, but I want to try on MyFonts. I need your help about changing weight of a font with Multiple Masters (I use Fontlab Studio 5). How do you scale proportionally the glyphs? There's a "Mathematical" law to do this? For changing weight I mean how to change the shape of each letter
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Once you have all of your instances set up using math as a basis you need to test the fonts in print and see what’s too light/heavy/wide/etc. What I usually do is set them up on a grid in Indesign with pages for caps, lowercase, both, text, etc, print it out, tape it to the wall, and look at it for a few days. Then I print an adjusted version and repeat until I’m sick of looking at it happy.
You should read the book The Modification of Letterforms by Stanley Hess. It can be a PITA to acquire but it’s worth it.