Kerning not working?

[William]

The following post about the naming of font files might be helpful.

2 More Newbie How-to Questions

Open a new font file, and name it in howsoever many ways so that it exists only as itself? Well, not wishing to be pedantic, just precise, one does not “open” a “new” font file, as opening a file is done on a file which already exists. The following is what I do. Suppose that, for example, I wish to produce a font named Ginevra (incidentally, the name comes from a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, I needed to choose a name for the font in this example and that just sprang to mind.). Use File …

Also, the following post about keeping a diary when making a font will hopefully be useful too.

2 More Newbie How-to Questions

Also, something I do when fontmaking is to make a diary as I go along. I do this in a text document file with a .htm suffix using WordPad. I started doing this with the idea that each such file could be a web page, though I have not yet published any of them. For example, here is the entry for one session when I was designing the Galileo Lettering font. quote Wednesday 16 February 2005 Use GALI0007.TTF as the working font. Try an S by adapting a copy of s. The design of the Galileo ornam…

William Overington

27 August 2008