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[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Installing to a Custom Folder

If, for some reason, you want to install FontCreator into a custom folder, that is not the one chosen by FontCreatorSetup.exe, you can use a command line to specify both the location of the installer and the destination folder where you wish to install FontCreator.

Hold the Windows key to open the Windows Run command dialogue, and paste the appropriate command line to install FontCreator. As with all commands, the syntax has to be 100% correct or it will fail, or install to the wrong location.

"%UserProfile%\Downloads\FontCreatorSetup-x64.exe" /DIR=expand:{pf}\High-Logic FontCreator 13"

[Alfred]

If you specify the path as

%UserProfile%\Downloads\

(assuming that the installer is in your Downloads folder) Windows will replace the environment variable ‘%UserProfile%’ with the correct folder path for the current user.

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Checking for Errors

While scrolling through glyphs in the Glyph Edit Window using the Alt + Right/Left cursor keys to check for errors with alignment of accents, etc., you can also check for kerning errors.

• On the Preview Toolbar, enable kerning
• On the Comparison Toolbar, enable OpenType Layout Features

Here, I came across Ŵ circumflex, which was not kerned with A or a.

By selecting the W and opening it in a new Glyph Edit Window, one can see that the Capital W is already kerned with both A and a.

To fix this, I realised that I needed to add Ŵ circumflex to the Capital W kerning class.

• Press Ctrl F8 to open the Visual OpenType Designer
• Click on the icon at the top to open the Class Manager
• Add Ŵ circumflex to the list of glyphs in the W_Caps Class
• OK the Visual OpenType Designer dialogue to accept the changes,

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Checking Kerning Pairs

Improvements in FontCreator 10.1 make it easier to identify kerning pairs that might need attention, but there is another feature that I only rediscovered recently.

1. Type a single character in the filter box at the top of the list of kerning pairs, taking care not to click the add or delete kerning pair green and red buttons just above it
2. Select a kerning pair of interest
3. Highlight the drop list for the first or second member of the kerning pair (there is no need to open it).
4. Press the up and down cursor keys to scroll through the glyphs in the kerning class.

A kerning pair may be right for one glyph in the class, but wrong for another. Open the Class Manager from the top of the dialogue to edit the kerning classes, Make sure that you remove a glyph from one class before adding it to another to avoid “Class overlap” errors. These are shown as warnings in the Code Editor validator. They won’t prevent your font from exporting, but they will flatten all kerning classes in the exported font.

While comparing similar glyphs in this way, you may spot some other previously unnoticed errors like misaligned accents, or even differently shaped base glyphs where some have been updated, but others have not. The screen shot above highlights an error in the ff ligature. While creating the ligature, I moved the glyphs closer together by 150 funits, but forgot to edit the right side-bearing to compensate. The right quotation mark is therefore spaced too far away from the ff ligature, but is OK for the lowercase f.

There’s another trick worth knowing for ensuring which glyph in a class is displayed in the list of kerning pairs. In the Class Manager, use the Up button to promote the glyph most likely to cause clashes with the other glyph in the pair to the top of the class. Although è acute comes before e double grave, I have promoted it so that it appears first. If that does not clash, then I can be confident that none of the other glyphs in the class will clash either. Autokern will use this first glyph to calculate adjustment pairs.

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Using Shortcuts to Speed Workflow

There are often requests for more shortcuts because when you do something repeatedly clicking buttons is slow and error-prone. It is too easy to delete a kerning pair by clicking the red button when trying to add a pair by clicking the green button.

To open the OpenType Designer Dialogue, Press the Ctrl F8 shortcut
This can be done from the glyph edit window or from the glyph overview.

With focus on the kerning pairs list,¹ press the Insert Key

This will bring up the dialogue to add kerning pairs.

Press the tab key to switch focus to the list of second kerning pair members. Scroll up or down using the cursor keys. Notice how the OK button gets greyed out when a kerning pair already exists, and is only available to click if a pair does not exist.

Press shift tab to switch focus back to the list of first kerning pair members. Scroll down, Tab to the second list, and scroll again. With Insert, Tab, Up/Down, one can quickly find missing kerning pairs and add them to the lookup table.

To save changes click on OK. If you were just looking, or opened the dialogue in error, press Ctrl W to close it.

¹ Ctrl F8 with focus on the kerning pairs list will bring up the code editor.

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Scripts, Features, and Lookups

In the OpenType Designer dialogue, there are three trees on the left, which may be expanded or collapsed. I found that I was spending a lot of time collapsing and expanding the script tree, and scrolling to find the feature or lookup that I wanted to edit. There is a better way to work.

Script Tree
One usually does not need to add scripts, so you can leave this tree collapsed.

Feature Tree

The features are arranged in alphabetical order and cannot be rearranged. I expand this tree when I am exporting fonts as WOFF. Before exporting WOFF versions I delete a lot of glyphs, so some features need to be deleted. Features with empty lookups won’t be exported anyway, so there’s no need to delete those, but those like Character Variants, which have depleted lookup tables need to be deleted.

Lookup Tree

The most frequently edited lookup is the pair adjustment for kerning pairs. I move this to the top of the tree, where it’s most easily accessible and I leave this tree expanded. FontCreator remembers the previous state when restarted.

Note that lookups can be moved up or down in the tree by using the arrow buttons on the toolbar. The order of lookups is important. If, for example, Discretionary Ligatures is above Small Capitals, and if both features are enabled, the discretionary ligatures will take precedence over Small Capitals, which can leave documents looking Tacky.

Give some careful thought about which features are most important and rearrange the order of the lookups accordingly. Please ask on this earlier thread if you have any questions about the best order for OpenType features.

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Alternate and Winding Fill

FontCreator 10.1 added a new option to use Alternate or Winding fill in Tools, Options, General. Glyph Outline Fill Mode.

I just came across a bug in one of my fonts that I might have spotted sooner if I had not enabled the Alternate Fill mode. There are pros and cons of each fill mode. Using the Font Validator or Validation Toolbar will catch this kind of error, but I did not use either in this case.

The white outline of the contours with incorrect direction that you see in Alternate Winding Mode in FontCreator do not show up in an exported font.

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Trimming Kerning Pairs

Now that one can add loads of kerning pairs by using kerning classes and autokern, fonts tend to get bloated with a lot of pairs that are too small to be worth keeping. For a standard font with 2048 funits per em, a kerning value of less than 10 or 20 is barely noticeable. Fortunately, the OpenType Designer has a way of removing these small values quickly.

• Run Autokern
• Manually check for positive values. There’s no reason not to use positive kerning, but they are often an indicator that side-bearings need some attention.
• Fix the side-bearings then run Autokern again.
• Export the OpenType Layout Definition script from the OpenType Designer to preserve all of the kerning classes and kerning pairs.
• Optionally, remove any unused classes from the Class Manager
• Right-click on the Pair Adjustment lookup, and select Trim
• Select the value that you want to trim. Both positive and negative values. Values equal to or greater than the chosen value will not be trimmed.

In my test, 25,672 pairs were trimmed to 25,379.

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Adjusting the Accent Position

Accents should be designed in the correct vertical position for lowercase glyphs. When the Complete Composites feature is used, they are raised for Uppercase glyphs by the distance between x-height and CapsHeight.

Accents for Small Capital glyphs are centred vertically on the CapHeight. To adjust the vertical position of accents for Capitals or Small Capitals, temporarily edit the CapHeight in font properties. One can use the Calculate button to reset it to what it should be after using Complete Composites.

In this screen shot I have manually changed the CapHeight from 1493 funits to 1550 funits to raise them by 57 funits over Small Capitals glyphs.

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Aligning Accents Using Guidelines

Complete Composites will align accents correctly for most glyphs, but some glyphs have an optical centre that is different to the geometric centre, and all glyphs should be checked visually for the best results.

Adding a Diagonal Guideline for an Italic Font

1. Drag a guide out from the ruler
2. Holding down the Shift key while dragging the placed guide to rotate it
3. Double-click the guideline to open the guide dialogue
4. Enter 90° minus the diagonal angle for the font (found in Font Properties, Identification).
5. Drag the guide to position it to the optical centre of the current glyph
6. Move the accent using the cursor keys + Shift or Ctrl to centre it on the guideline. Acute accents should be 1/3 to the left and 2/3 to the right of the guide. Grave accents should be 2/3 to the left and 1/3 to the right of the guide.

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Tagging Multiple Glyphs in Several Fonts

I am currently working on a set of eight font styles and wanted to check several glyphs across all ten type styles. Currently, tags cannot be copied from one project to another. Here is a method to work around this using the Glyph Transform wizard.

Selecting the Glyphs in one font for Tagging

1. Scroll through the entire font adding glyphs that need attention to the Preview Toolbar using the shortcut Shift P.
2. Copy the glyph names from the bottom of the Preview Toolbar, using End, Shift + Home, Ctrl C
   
3. Paste into notepad, and replace / with a space
4. Open the Glyph Transform Wizard from the Tools menu and add the feature “Override Range by Glyph Name(s)” to the script
5. Paste the glyph names from notepad into the list of glyph names
6. Save the script, and then run it.

Tagging the Glyphs
All of the named glyphs will now be selected. Use the Ctrl 1 shortcut to tag the glyphs as “ToDo” (or use any of the other four tags).

The script can then be run to quickly tag the same glyphs in other typeface styles or fonts.

Tagging More than 256 Glyphs

The number of glyphs that can be added to the Preview Toolbar is limited to 256 at a time. However, there is no obvious limit to the number of glyph names that can be added to the “Override Range by Glyph Name(s)” feature. I tag over a thousand glyphs in my large fonts for exclusion from the Web and WOFF versions. Now that I have saved a transform script for tagging glyphs I can easily edit the list, or tag another font or type style in the same way.

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Autokerning Large Fonts

It can take a few minutes to autokern a large font. Here’s a way to speed up the process.

• Add a new pair adjustment lookup
• Add just a few kerning pairs to the lookup
• Run Autokern with different glyph spacing values until you are happy with the result
• Run Autokern on the full pair adjustment lookup that the kerning feature uses
• Kerning pairs can be copied from the “PairAdjustmentTest” lookup table to the “PairAdjustmentLatin” (or whatever you have named it) lookup using the Code Editor (use the button at the bottom of the OpenType Designer dialogue, not the icon at the top, which only edits the current lookup).
• Try the other route too: copy the new kerning pairs from the PairAdjustmentTest lookup table using the icon at the top, then paste them into the PairAdjustmentLatin lookup using the same icon with that lookup selected. They can be pasted at the beginning. When the changes are accepted, FontCreator will sort the pairs and strip any duplicates.

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Finding Glyphs in Large Fonts

Display the Preview Toolbar (F8) and enable various OpenType features to test them.

To locate any glyph displayed in the preview toolbar, simply click on it. The glyph will be located in the glyph overview.

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Creating an All Caps Font

Some fonts have no lowercase glyphs. It is easy enough to copy the 26 capital glyphs and paste them into the lowercase glyph code-points. However, there is a much better way.

• Copy the lowercase glyphs: a-z
• Select the Capital A
• Paste Special, code-points only, add code-points

Each glyph will now have two code-points, e.g. A will be both 65 and 97 decimal … and Z will both 90 and 122 decimal.

The advantages of this method are: 1) the font will be smaller as it contains fewer points and contours; 2) maintaining the font is easier — if a glyph needs editing, you don’t need to remember to copy and paste it again to the lowercase code-point.

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Adding Programs to the Launch Externals Submenu

In FontCreator 11 or later versions, one can add up to three programs or utilities to the Launch Externals submenu of the Tools menu. In the configure externals dialogue, browse to any program file on your hard drive to select the Executable file .exe. Then, edit the title and type an ampersand before the desired access key, e.g. &Notepad to add Notepad to the submenu.

It is also possible to add a particular file to the menu. For example, to add CompositeData.xml to the menu, browse to find the file as usual, but since the dialogue only shows executable Programs by default, type ".xml" in the File name field, then select CompositeData.xml to add it to the submenu.

When the item is selected, Windows will launch whichever program you have associated with XML files. In my case, that is Jarte, a Wordpad clone that I use to edit CompositeData.xml.

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Using the Preview Toolbar to Aid Kerning

I use a lot of extra text strings in the Preview.txt file as an aid for kerning. Jonne Haven added some more strings to my file for Uppercase-lowercase pairs. In Tools, Options, Advanced, Copy the Data files to the Data Folder, then Open User Data Folder to edit Preview.txt. Copy and paste this code to add the extra text strings.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
NONONONONONONONONON
0123456789 ⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹ ₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉
0102030405060708090
ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ
​abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρςστυφχψω
Āā Ūū Īī Ḍḍ Ḥḥ Ḷḷ Ḹḹ Ṃṃ Ṇṇ Ṅṅ Ṛṛ Ṝṝ Ṣṣ Śś Ṭṭ
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oaobocodoeofogohoiojokolomonoopoqorosotouovowoxoyozo
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(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)(i)(j)(k)(l)(m)(n)(o)(p)(q)(r)(s)(t)(u)(v)(w)(x)(y)(z)
(A)(B)(C)(D)(E)(F)(G)(H)(I)(J)(K)(L)(M)(N)(O)(P)(Q)(R)(S)(T)(U)(V)(W)(X)(Y)(Z)
{a}{b}{c}{d}{e}{f}{g}{h}{i}{j}{k}{l}{m}{n}{o}{p}{q}{r}{s}{t}{u}{v}{w}{x}{y}{z}
{A}{B}{C}{D}{E}{F}{G}{H}{I}{J}{K}{L}{M}{N}{O}{P}{Q}{R}{S}{T}{U}{V}{W}{X}{Y}{Z}
[a][b][c][d][e][f][g][h][i][j][k][l][m][n][o][p][q][r][s][t][u][v][w][x][y][z]
[A][B][C][D][E][F][G][H][I][J][K][L][M][N][O][P][Q][R][S][T][U][V][W][X][Y][Z]

[Jonne_Haven]

Preview.txt Update

Bhikkhu and all users,

I have added even more strings to Bhikkhu Pesala’s original preview.txt (useful in kerning). Follow his instructions in the previous post to utilize this file which is placed inline as code. It includes kerning with common symbols with upper and lower case alphabets, and numbers inside parentheses, brackets, etc.

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
1234567890!,."#$%&'()
*+-/:;<=>?@[\]^_`´{|}~
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ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
NONONONONONONONONON
0123456789 ⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹ ₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉
0102030405060708090
ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ
​abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρςστυφχψω
Āā Ūū Īī Ḍḍ Ḥḥ Ḷḷ Ḹḹ Ṃṃ Ṇṇ Ṅṅ Ṛṛ Ṝṝ Ṣṣ Śś Ṭṭ
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New preview text

Enjoy and hope you find this helpful. I couldn’t kern without this convenient little file.

Blessings,

Jonne

Another update to Bhikkhu Pesala’s preview text file. Added is bite sized chunks of Capital letters and the letters they’re often found with following. Also most of the arithmetic symbols used with numbers have been added. The ampersand sign with Capitals and Lowercase is included. Also capital Letters followed by lowercase letters has been completed to show all variations.

Blessings,

Jonne
Preview.txt (10.7 KB)

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Using Access Keys

If there is no shortcut for a particular command, access keys are always an alternative. For example, to edit the selected glyphs, use Alt+L, N, E:

Another example, which I use frequently, is exporting all Fonts:

Typically, I work on a set of four type styles, (eight if I am editing Kabala). First, I export all in OpenType format using the Access Keys, Alt+F (File menu), A, E. Then I delete all of the glyphs I don’t wish to include in the smaller versions for the web, and use Alt+F, A, A to export all formats of all fonts. For Kabala, that would be 24 fonts: OTF, WOFF, and WOFF2 formats for each of the eight type styles.

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Permalinks in Forum Update

@ErwinDenissen

Yesterday we’ve upgraded the forum to version 3.1

The forum was upgraded at least once since the above post. I now see an Up Arrow next to the quoted user’s name that links back to the quoted post. If you quote a post in another thread, and start writing your reply, but do not submit it there, you can copy/paste it to any thread and the permalink will appear there.

Click the link next to Erwin’s name to find the post that I have quoted.

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Overriding Automatic Glyph Naming

The generation of user-friendly glyph names in FontCreator 12 is an extremely powerful feature. However, there might be some glyphs that you do not wish to be renamed when running this command. In the User Data Folder there is a text file named glyphnamesnew.dat. It contains only a few lines to prevent the Glyph Naming feature overriding the usual names.

20AC;euro
210A;gscript2;conflicts with 0261
1180;jungseongoe2-hang;conflicts with 116C

Users can edit this file to add lines for any other glyphs. I have added a number of lines to retain my own preferred glyph names:

# Friendly Glyph Names for FontCreator
# Copyright (C) 2019 High-Logic B.V. All Rights Reserved.
#
# 2019-03-07 - version 1.0
#
# FontCreator uses friendly glyph names within the user interface. Use this
# file to override glyph names.
#
# Note: prior to FontCreator 12 another file (glyphnames.dat) was used, but
# that one is now obsolete.
#
# Format: codepoint(hexadecimal);glyphname;comment(optional)
# Lines starting with "#" are comments; blank lines are ignored
#
20AC;euro
210A;gscript2;conflicts with 0261
1180;jungseongoe2-hang;conflicts with 116C   

# Glyphs for Superscript and Fractions features
2070;zero.sups
2074;four.sups
2075;five.sups
2076;six.sups
2077;seven.sups
2078;eight.sups
2079;nine.sups
207A;plus.sups
207B;minus.sups
207C;equal.sups
207D;parenleft.sups
207E;parenright.sups
# Glyphs for Scientific Inferiors
2080;zero.sinf
2081;one.sinf
2082;two.sinf
2083;three.sinf
2084;four.sinf
2085;five.sinf
2086;six.sinf
2087;seven.sinf
2088;eight.sinf
2089;nine.sinf
208A;plus.sinf
208B;minus.sinf
208C;equal.sinf
208D;parenleft.sinf
208E;parenright.sinf
# Glyphs for Alternative Annotation Forms (nalt)
2460;one.nalt
2461;two.nalt
2462;three.nalt
2463;four.nalt
2464;five.nalt
2465;six.nalt
2466;seven.nalt
2467;eight.nalt
2468;nine.nalt
2469;ten.nalt
246A;eleven.nalt
246B;twelve.nalt
246C;thirteen.nalt
246D;fourteen.nalt
246E;fifteen.nalt
246F;sixteen.nalt
2470;seventeen.nalt
2471;eighteen.nalt
2472;nineteen.nalt
2473;twenty.nalt
24B6;A.nalt
24B7;B.nalt
24B8;C.nalt
24B9;D.nalt
24BA;E.nalt
24BB;F.nalt
24BC;G.nalt
24BD;H.nalt
24BE;I.nalt
24BF;J.nalt
24C0;K.nalt
24C1;L.nalt
24C2;M.nalt
24C3;N.nalt
24C4;O.nalt
24C5;P.nalt
24C6;Q.nalt
24C7;R.nalt
24C8;S.nalt
24C9;T.nalt
24CA;U.nalt
24CB;V.nalt
24CC;W.nalt
24CD;X.nalt
24CE;Y.nalt
24CF;Z.nalt
24D0;a.nalt
24D1;b.nalt
24D2;c.nalt
24D3;d.nalt
24D4;e.nalt
24D5;f.nalt
24D6;g.nalt
24D7;h.nalt
24D8;i.nalt
24D9;j.nalt
24DA;k.nalt
24DB;l.nalt
24DC;m.nalt
24DD;n.nalt
24DE;o.nalt
24DF;p.nalt
24E0;q.nalt
24E1;r.nalt
24E2;s.nalt
24E3;t.nalt
24E4;u.nalt
24E5;v.nalt
24E6;w.nalt
24E7;x.nalt
24E8;y.nalt
24E9;z.nalt
24EA;zero.nalt
# Alphabetic Presentation forms not in Unicode
FB07;fff
FB08;fffl
FB09;sf
FB0A;sfi
FB0B;sfy
FB0C;sh
FB0D;sk