Font Forum

Thanks, Erwin ... yes, I expect I'll upgrade eventually. Probably when I get a new computer (mine is over ten years old), update to Win10, and update just about all the other software I'm running. I literally did not modify a font for 13 years until last year, and now I'm doing a little bit, so it's...

Thanks for the clues. A good night's sleep helped most. :shock: After checking the file attributes, I finally realized that the entire font wasn't read-only, just the glyph I was trying to edit. With lack of recent practice in FC, I had tried to copy one glyph and paste it into another and then edit...

I'm trying to edit a font that I last modified about a year ago. FontCreator acts like the font is read-only, though it doesn't exactly say so. But when I open a glyph, I can't select anything, even Select All fails to do anything. Ideas on what could be causing this? The font file is in my user fol...

Thanks for the responses. I'm going out of town for a few days, but I'll be playing with the comparison window as time permits -- I had not previously found that. Also the predefined list of kerning pairs -- I think I'd read about loading from a file but missed that FCP has such a file. How do you u...

Does anyone know of a corpus of English text designed for testing font spacing? I'm thinking in terms of a text that reads like normal language (so that I'm not poring over every letter) but which also contains nearly all the letter combinations likely to be encountered, so that serious spacing prob...