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That wouldn't solve my problem I guess. For LAVA I'd have to type the bow for LA before the V, so again there would be a glyph placed between A and V which would mess up the kerning pair, right?

I could use a little help with my current issue. I'm trying to add a special school feature to my font: syllable bows. Like this: silbenboegen.jpg This sample is made with a special software, so mine is not going to be that perfect, but that's alright. I want to add a bunch characters with bows in d...

Your glyph has a lot more nodes than it needs. The top is fine, but the bottom curves only need the same number of points at the top curve. The original "l" I used had fewer nodes. I tried all kinds of things to avoid getting off-curve extremes. Adding some nodes was one attempt and the r...

@ Bhikkhu Pesala - thank you, I've attached the "l" which shows off curve points in FC.

@ Erwin - so that means I would have to change this setting to CFF, then import all the glyphs anew?

Any change in the outlines should be negligible. The problem is, since this will be a school font mostly for first graders it will be used in large font sizes rather than small ones. Just now I tried fixing the the detected off-curve problems automatically and then printed some text in a large font...

Thanks for showing me this. I'll try fixing it tomorrow. Or run the Validation wizard to fix an entire font at once. I tried this Validation Wizard once after finishing all my glyphs, and it did say it discovered problems, so I had it fix them, but those glyphs were messed up. The outlines where cha...

Ah. I just wonder where that comes from or how to avoid it. I create my glyphs in Corel Draw, then export them as eps files. In Corel Draw there isn't such a thing like off curve points. All points are always on the outline. To be honest, I don't quite know what off-curve extremes or on-curve extrem...

Another strange thing happening:

LSB 68 + RSB 69 + Width 823 = 960 -- Why does AW say 965?
Also, the 4 is positioned at Y=0, height is 1400, but the Bounding box value says 1403.
And 896–68=828, not 823 which is the actual width.

Jonne Haven wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2017 4:36 pm Karen Hope this helps. Maybe if you and I get on Erwin to fix this 'space chunk theory' as I perceive them if we're polite and explain as best we can our observations.

Well, if this could be improved, it would be great for sure.

That would be a way too, sure. But then due to kerning the lines would overlap with the ones of the letters before and after. So it would still be interesting to know if that could cause problems.

I'm planning on making my font with a stylistic set that includes lines: zeilen.jpg I have a plan on how to do this by creating characters with the lines in different widths, set Advance Width of each to zero, and then make multiple substitutions. For instance substitute "a" for the lines ...

The problem is that the Font Test window uses a standard Windows control. Microsoft are the ones who should fix it, not Erwin. I still think there should be some way of getting a correct preview. I'm not a programmer, I'm just a user who spent quite some money on a software, and my logic tells me t...

Thanks, Jonne, for your support. I'm kind of glad I'm not the only one being unhappy with this. I do increase the font size, but that alone doesn't do the trick for me. I need to see it in different sizes so I can decide what I like best. Also, I like to type sentences to see what it looks like, rat...

Better upload your images to the forum, as external web sites might remove images after a while or require a payment to continue to use them. Oh, I didn't know that was possible. I'm used to having to use an image host at other forums. Thanks for the advice. The Font Test Dialog uses a common Windo...

Thank you for taking the time to look into it. 1) I think you're designing this wrongly. Kerning should not be required for pairs with | The spacing should look right without spaces: H|H, but I see the same discrepancy in the Font Test Window with double bar. I'm aware that it's unusual, but this wi...