I have Font Creator 5.6 Home. I am a novice user.
How do I ensure that my glyphs are equal in size? How do I ensure the lines and curves have the same thickness and look even and professional? Can I even up the glyphs in one step or do I have to do each glyph one-by-one?
I am finding that the glyphs are not even. The lines and curves are of differing sizes.
Thank you
I don’t design alphabets so have no experience on width of strokes in a letter. It sounds like a gory manual effort to adjust inconsistent stroke widths.
The Transform function (Tools/Glyph Transformer) is the place to start to correct all the strokes in a character or for the whole font at once. Bold, Thin, Bearings, et al. Very powerful. (Sometimes it gives undesired results, so save your work before!)
I frequently use the Transformer toolbar (View/Toolbars/Transform) when editing a single glyph. There are 8 tabs: position, movement, rotation, scale, mirror, size, skew, bearings. Each of these can do fine tuning adjustments – but you make these adjustments for each glyph.
You can correct how big it is, where it’s placed and whether it’s aligned straight or not. This type of adjustment is often needed when importing a new set of letters. Since it’s “numbers oriented” you can enter the same value for every character and things will end up the same size in the end.
I heavily use both functions when editing a font.
It might be worth upgrading to the Professional Edition. I use the knife tool and get union of contours a lot to copy elements from one glyph to another, especially Serifs. Though you can join and break contours in the Home Edition, it is a bit labour intensive. (See the last two images in This Tutorial to learn how to join two contours in the Home Edition.
Another method that you can use in the Home Edition is to display a glyph in the Comparison Toolbar, turn off outline fills, and reduce the advance width of the current glyph to zero to overlay the comparison glyph on the current glyph. The illustration shows the F glyph overlayed on the E glyph while that is being edited.
Edit E Glyph.png
You can also use a background image in the same way.