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Spacing is one of the hardest things to get right. Try using the Comparison Toolbar and scroll through your font checking how each glyph looks next to the comparison glyphs. Then try with a different pair, e.g. Capitals. http://forum.high-logic.com/postedimages/comparison.png Adjusting the position ...

Number 5 is already there once you have visited a few folders in the current session. Yes to all the others. Font Properties Extensions will give you some more detailed information in Windows Explorer including the number of kerning pairs on the "Features" tab. It might be a while before M...

This Tutorial Applies to FontCreator 6.5 or Earlier If, like me, you often work on fonts of 1,000 glyphs or more, you will make frequent use of the bookmark feature. To set a bookmark, press Control + Shift + Digit (0-9) To go to a bookmark, press Control + Digit (0-9) I set my bookmarks at strateg...

From the Tao Te Ching Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub; It is the center hole that makes it useful. Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore benefit comes from what is there; Usefulnes...

Thanks for moving your post. Since those Greek letters don't exist in your font, you have to draw them. Either draw them on paper and scan them in, or draw them with the drawing tools on the Glyph Toolbar. You can copy the Greek letters from my font if you like, but they may not match your font perf...

http://www.softerviews.org/Verajja.png This set of four Sans Serif type styles includes a full range of characters for Latin scripts, geometric shapes and symbols. The uppercase composite glyphs like  use low profile accents, as do the Small Capitals and Petite Capitals. Default leading for 10 poi...

tova sagi wrote:Thank you for your fast reply, I did everything you suggested, but it didn't help. It seems to me something basic is wrong

You can send your font to me to look at. If it is big, zip it up first. 7-zip is best at compressing Truetype fonts though plain zip is also fine.

William wrote:Could you explain what one needs to do to vote please?

You have to send some cookies to Erwin.

Take a look at the Frequently Asked Questions for some explanation of Typographical terminology. You can post your font in the Gallery if you want some feedback. If you have no webspace on which to host it you can send it to Erwin.

Try format, Settings, Ranges, Unicode ranges, Version 3, Calculate, Code Pages, Calculate.

Then Tools, Autonaming, and run the wizard again. Then uninstall and reinstall your font, and try again.

Reboot if that doesn't work yet.

The space character is normally the fourth glyph in your font and is mapped to both 32 and 160 (non-breaking space). It should have a width of about 500-700 funits depending on the design of your font.

By default, if you paste with Control V, no mappings are copied. This is OK if you're pasting glyphs into the same mappings. Otherwise use Control E, paste special and check the box to paste mappings and override existing mappings to be sure.

I'm still undecided on how best to design ligatures. I have opted for a design that doesn't alter the letter spacing. Here are some I designed for Verajja, my version of Bitstream Vera. The top row is plain text, the second row is Verajja ligatures, the third row is DejaVu ligatures. Which design do...

Nice work. That must have taken you a while. Did you start in April 2004? The set of fonts work well together. I gave it a bit more leading than 60% — about 75% prevents the collisions which I am sure occur sometimes on real manuscripts. Scott Script.png The italic (2nd and 4th paragraphs) reminds m...

Not only does it change for each font, it changes for each letter in the same font. "A" "T" "V" and "W" will usually need much less white space than "I" or ";" while "N" and "M" may be OK with the average value. Using th...