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Re: Practice-Sans first typeface
Don’t do any kerning yet! You need to do spacing first, and redo and refine it, at length. Kerning is something one does very late in the type design process.7 -
Re: Having a custom font created for a youth-focused Anti-Bullying Charity
One thing that would make a very powerful story might be to consider some bullied teens who are no longer with us, and pick one with interesting/useful handwriting, and turn that into a font. I will …4 -
Re: Having a custom font created for a youth-focused Anti-Bullying Charity
Seeing a sample of your handwriting might help some people decide if they were interested. Besides it being a worthy cause, knowing what it is going to look like might be helpful.1 -
Re: Latin Extended-B Languages?
Fontographer certainly does not handle that. I think you could supplement/replace the usual kerning with manual coding in FontLab 5 or VI to get language-specific variations, if you wished, but you&#…1 -
Re: Hinting for layered fonts?
Nick, I think what is happening is the exact reverse of what you wrote. Pages is using macOS rendering, which always autohints outlines (and ignores the original hinting if any). InDesign uses the hi…3
