Tutorials for Font Creator?

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Bhikkhu Pesala
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Re: Tutorials for Font Creator?

Post by Bhikkhu Pesala »

Added tutorial for Vietnamese Fonts

These require lots of composite glyphs, and stacking diacritics. Designing them to fit above the capital letters without increasing the WinAscent too much takes some skill.
  1. Add all of the characters needed with the Transform Script
  2. Add guides and increase WinAscent for the first one
  3. Recompose the stacking diacritic accents, and make simple again for editing
  4. Design the accents to suit the font
  5. Recompose the Vietnamese Characters.
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Re: Tutorials for Font Creator?

Post by hhnguyen »

Thank you so much. I've always wanted to learn how to do Vietnamese font, but needed a kick start and this is it. :D
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Re: Tutorials for Font Creator?

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I have added a few more for FontCreator 8 — Getting Started, Adding Kerning, and Editing Data Files
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Re: Tutorials for Font Creator?

Post by charles0224 »

Thanks for the video tuts. :D
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Re: Tutorials for Font Creator?

Post by meseek »

Thanks for the information.
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