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That seems to fix the issue for me.

I think you will have to paste the contours to one glyph at a time in Glyph Edit mode. By using shortcuts to navigate to the next glyph, this process is not difficult for a few dozen glyphs. Alt+Right, Ctrl+V, Alt+Right, Ctrl+V ... If you need to edit hundreds of glyphs, you might need to look for a...

This tutorial is over 20 years old.

Use the Glyph Transformer to Optimize selected glyphs.

Erwin Denissen wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 7:01 am Does this update solve the issue?

https://www.high-logic.com/tmp/maintype ... 16-x64.exe

No. This makes it worse. On changing the layout, MainType disappears from view, though the icon is still on the taskbar.

That is much better. The speed of your responses is as impressive as ever.

The UI also looks much sharper.

• Fixed gaps in Views panel
• Improved high DPI support
• New light and dark themes
• Numerous enhancements and improvements

I can confirm that the application window disappears briefly after startup.

Not a big issue, but slightly distracting.

That fixes the issue for me.

I see the opposite bug. On resizing the Views Panel, the spacing becomes much tighter, but there is obviously a bug here.

It is up to you, the Font Designer, to fix a few issues like intersecting contours manually. There will usually be edge-cases that need manual adjustment after the automated glyph transformations have done what they can. With experience, one knows where to look, and FontCreator’s built in validation...

Ligatures are not what you need. What you are doing is creating a cursive font , for which you need to use Contextual Alternates . For this, you need to create two or more versions of some letters and use an OpenType feature to substitute the appropriate glyph dependent on the context. This alternat...

Did you try doing it in two or more smaller steps?

I created some tutorials for FontCreator 11 on Using Glyph Transformations

Welcome to FontCreator 15. It may take a while to get used to all the changes.
This version supports variable fonts.

The Help File is online, as well as the PDF user manual, which is accessible from the Help menu.

There are also some Tutorials online to get you started.

Something must be selected for the copy button to work. If the paste button is greyed out, there is nothing in the clipboard to paste.

You need to clarify what you mean by “The calculate buttons are not working properly.”

How do the calculated values differ from the expected values?

I cannot reproduce the issue here. You need to attach the font project file, or send it to Erwin’s email.