Font Forum

One interesting idea for a font like this might be to make slight variations of letters, then use the random function to select which variation is used. This would make it so that the same letter would look different in different places on the page and this would make it look more handwritten. Yes I...

Read the manual and practice.

It's really not that difficult.

Start with a simple font and work your way up from there.

The problem with drawing above ' Win Ascent ' or below ' Win Descent ' is that these are the limits where Windows stops drawing the glyph. These are not the same as ' Typo Ascender ' and ' Typo Descender ' which are limits within font creator and can be exceeded quite happily without problems. If yo...

Also even if you could encrypt the project file a font designer could still open the font file in FC. You can't encrypt the font file without stopping users from installing the font.

Bhikkhu Pesala wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 21, 2020 4:36 pm

I think the editing of anchors could be easier. Opening a separate dialog to modify an anchor is tedious when done many times. Why not allow editing on the Anchor Manager dialog.

Good idea. +1

It is something I would have liked to know about before buying the full commercial version as all the fonts I have produced are free and open source.

Cadman has been updated to include Cyrillic and the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics. My fonts are no longer hosted on DeviantArt as they have been making rather disasterous changes to the website in order to monetarise things. Also they have changed the user interface of the website to be fri...

This is really good !

The 'hide clutter' feature works well as a toggle but using 'h' to cancel it whilst retaining it's original function as a momentary 'hide clutter' is a stroke of genius !

Well done !

Maybe it's time to update to version 13.

The perspective transform is cool but I doubt it would get used very often. In a regular drawing program like Inkscape yes it would be useful but in designing fonts I doubt it will get used more than the occasional person testing it out to see what it does. It would be adding features just for the s...

There are differences between GPL and OFL which are not obvious at girst glance. There is a clause in GPL which states that all things created with the GPL software must also be covered by GPL. So no commercial use. :shock: There was some controversy about this in the open source community because i...

It would still be nice if Erwin could make Ctrl+H hide the clutter and make the arrow keys move in small increments whilst it is pressed.

This small change would guarantee me getting an upgrade from 12 to 13, much more than the improvements for colour fonts.

Thank you, that seeems to work quite well.

It is more keystrokes than I would have liked but they can all be put into a macro so that brings it down to one keystroke again.

When adjusting curves I like to hide the rest of the clutter on the screen by pressing the 'H' key and using the arrow keys to adjust the point whilst looking at how it changes the character without all the other stuff getting in the way. Sometimes these adjustments are very subtle so I use the 'Ctr...

Bhikkhu Pesala wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 02, 2020 1:06 pm

Only way is:

1. Save font project
2. Select Composites
3. Make Simple
4. Export
5. Undo make simple
6. Save again.

The only problem I can see is that if the font contains composites whose contours overlap that might cause blank patches where they overlap in the exported font.