Cursive Font
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geekzoid
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Cursive Font
All the "how-to's" seem to cover Capital Letters. How do you do lower-case letters and have them all be the same size? Is there a way to move the red horizontal lines? And what about letters, like 'J' or 'j' that extend below the baseline? When I tested the 'J', part of the tail disappears. Please explain things step by step. Thank you.
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Bhikkhu Pesala
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The red lines are calculated values and depend on the font's design. See this Tutorial thread on how to adjust the x-height and Caps-height.
The position of Typodescender is calculated from lowercase "p," but adjusting the "p" doesn't move the Typodescender line.
Format, Settings, Metrics, Calculate will calculate Typodescender, WinAscent, and WinDescent. No glyphs should cross these latter two lines or they will be clipped — as you discovered, You can also set the metrics manually if you wish, but calculating them is much easier.
You can draw your letters on paper and scan them or use a drawing tablet in a suitable photo-editor program. See Scanning an Entire Alphabet tutorial.
Or you could use Scanahand to import a whole font quickly, then adjust it in FontCreator.
The position of Typodescender is calculated from lowercase "p," but adjusting the "p" doesn't move the Typodescender line.
Format, Settings, Metrics, Calculate will calculate Typodescender, WinAscent, and WinDescent. No glyphs should cross these latter two lines or they will be clipped — as you discovered, You can also set the metrics manually if you wish, but calculating them is much easier.
You can draw your letters on paper and scan them or use a drawing tablet in a suitable photo-editor program. See Scanning an Entire Alphabet tutorial.
Or you could use Scanahand to import a whole font quickly, then adjust it in FontCreator.