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I ended up building out a spreadsheet to calculate the displacement based on the tangent of the italic angle and the distance from the baseline to the anchor. Unfortunately that doesn't seem like something that would be as easy for many users to do. I through it would be an easy solution since I onl...

My font uses anchors to assign accents to the composite glyphs. When I generate an oblique version by running Glyph Transformer > Effects > Italic, the anchors don't move. What settings should I use in order to get the anchor locations to update based on running the Glyph Transformer > Italic transf...

That's a bit of a bummer.
I'll keep trying FontForge, thanks again

I found out that Fontforge has non-linear formula-based transformations, and have started experimenting with applying sine waves to outlines, such as in x=x+20*sin(y*0.05). FontCreator allows the use of XML to run Glyph Transformer scripts, but the existing functions are limited. How do we write our...

It's not a perfect solution, but you can use Fontforge's "Expand Stroke" effect to round corners before finishing your font in Fontcreator. I used this process for Neue Gothic Round and Brewmaster Gothic Round.

If anyone is still looking to achieve this effect, it's available in FontForge:
Elements > Style > Shadow

I typically push my fonts to FontForge to apply effects or solve problems before finishing them in FontCreator.

Then the Version number doesn't automatically update in the Version String.

I think it's time to move back to FC8.1

Hi there.
I am using FC12 now. Under Font Properties > Identification, the option for "Generate the following naming fields automatically" adds Font Creator + FontCreator version to the Version String. How do I keep FontCreator out?

Erwin Denissen wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 6:11 pm We'll consider adding it back if more people like it, but let's wait and see if more people actually comment here.

People post here once every few months. "More people commenting" is a poor measure of demand.

Specifically I'm having issues where FontCreator is taking perfectly good kerning pairs with negative values (for example AW and AV) and giving them positive kerning values. Has nothing to do with clashes. If I'm happy with my letter spacing (no clashes), and FontCreator can be set to block positiv...

Specifically I'm having issues where FontCreator is taking perfectly good kerning pairs with negative values (for example AW and AV) and giving them positive kerning values. Has nothing to do with clashes.

Whoops, just found it!

Haha I'm so blind

Thank you for humoring me.

Hi everyone I am trying to publish a font and finding much of the work involved in the kerning process is being done in Excel using the OpenType code. Here are some of the basic processes that I am doing in Excel, which would help in the OpenType Designer Code Editor: 1. Replace / Replace All I use ...

We've removed that option, as too many people start believing only negative kerning is good. If your font only requires negative kerning, it is likely the bearings are not correct. I agree. If a font needs positive kerning then it should not be removed. Kerning lookup tables can be trimmed to remov...

Hi I just moved from FC8 Standard to FC12 Pro and the AutoKern no longer has the option to ignore positive kerning values when running the wizard. I ended up having to do it using character replacement after copying the OpenType code to Excel. Please bring back the option to ignore positive kerning ...