Font Forum

I know that characters in a 1" font maybe over the 1" height such as the Letters AOW etc, but when I design my fonts for use in my Gerber Omega program for Monumental Drafting I design the font so the capital character of the font are set to the Caps Height from the base line, I do not go ...

I am presently using Gerber Omega 5.0 to construct my Vector outlines for each letter using US inches for my units of measure is there a way to set the defaults in FontCreator 9.0 to this measure of units instead of what appears when you load program. The reason I need this USA inches measure is tha...

Using Corel Draw 6 to import my vector character outlines to the clip board then to Font Creator 9. The vector outline look correct in Corel Draw, but when I paste them into Font Creator program from the clipboard the contours change, sharp corners round, curve change to straight line segments, etc....

After posting I noticed that the latest version of Main Type is 6.0 so I just upgraded to the Pro version and DL and installed it. Seem to have fixed the problem of not working on MS Windows 10. Just waiting for my Key Code to keep it working.

Recently upgraded my computer from MS Windows 7 to the free upgrade to MS Windows 10 when I try to on the Main Type 5.1 program I am getting an error message: The service is not running. Please run FmsConfg.exe or contact customer support. Not sure what to do at this point to get the program to open...

The Characters of the font are vector files not bitmaps that I have been copying to the clipboard from CorelDraw 6 to import into FontCreator, but the sharp corners and some of the straight lines have been transformed into curve lines is this normal?

:D Recently purchased the latest version of this software, really impressed with all the great features, so much to learn. Have had better luck creating my Monument fonts than with Ver. 7.0, but still have a few quick questions from using it. I open Type Designer Kern and make my adjustment and save...

Reviewed above post about kerning and character positioning being negative on left side of characters, have adjusted each character so that the left edge starts at zero and adjusted right side, did auto kern, then manual kern on some of the pairs, looks better under test for ttf, still learning how ...

Been using this program for a short time what do you mean by " negative side -bearing, adjust the side -bearings', anything to get the font to auto kern better would be a great help.

Attached is an OTF font I developed for Monumental Sandblast lettering it is a font that would be used from 2 1/2"-3" in size. The letter style contain a sunk letter outline with a frosted letter in the center. Took me many hours to manually kern this font, would of been faster if I could ...

Just like in your above example of the jpeg, I know that "AFA would kern different left and right of the center letter, but instead of just being able to kern a pair of letters would it be possible to program it so that you could kern 3 letters at a time and apply / save the kerning like you ca...

There are other type font formats besides TTF and OTF , Apple fonts, and many others. The purpose of these programs is not to steal them but if you have them in a program that you need to use them in that are not compatible, or from one operating system MS Win to Apple iMac. These programs give you ...

In response to the last reply, I have spent hours at a time kerning fonts in various programs I have used to do the work I need to do with fonts and spacing between letters. And for me from over 30 years experience I have found for basic manual kerning the program I like and found fastest and easies...

Yes, I know about the comparison tool bar, love it, but wish this feature could be put into manual kerning, it would allow much faster kerning if you could do both the left and right kerning at the same time. VersaCad had this feature available back in 1989, made it a breeze to quick kern a font man...

Thanks for the approval of my first font, still learning more about this program every time I use it, more features that I discover with each use, hoping to figure out only the features I need to expedite the creation of all the Monument Standard Fonts that I need to make into usable TTF and OTF. Ha...