I also begun with Illustrator, but after two or three days using just the FL tools, I understood why most type designers prefer this way. Consider to make all draws directly in FL.
But note that FL5 Unicode blocks are not up to date and you need to verify the charts.ĥ. The easiest way to add glyphs at a glance is to choose a Unicode range and double-click over the drafts you want to include. You can also use a color to mark glyphs already finished.Ĥ. You can use any order and this may be helpful in a number of situations: to compare different scripts, to control the base+diacritic composites, to group all phonetic characters, etc.ģ. Contrary to codepages or ranges, it will let you freely drag-n-drop glyphs. But to begin with a clean idea will help all the further work.Ģ. Of course, you can add glyphs and Unicode blocks anytime.
Latin extended? Greek? Cyrillic? Math operators? IPA? This is the very first step. Define what you will include in your pro font. So, if you redo TrueType hinting for most of the glyphs in your font, we generally recommend to not keep the original hints.1. This makes fonts bigger by 1-2%, and in some cases decreases font rendering performance a bit. If font-level hinting data is added, then special commands are used in each character-level instruction to avoid interference between two sets of font-level hinting. If any of characters have visual hints, or the autohinting option is on, then FontLab's font-level hints are added to original hints (if they were saved at file open time), or only FontLab font-level hints are exported. Also note that the VDMX table is not stored in any way.ģ.
Font-level hinting data remains until no characters remain hinted. Remember that glyphs that have been "touched" (any point is moved, inserted or deleted) lose glyph-level hinting data. If "Keep existing TrueType instructions" (in export options) switch is on, all hinting data previously in the font is maintained. However, editing glyph outlines will delete the glyph-level instructions for that glyph!Ģ. If "Save TrueType hinting information" (in Import options) option is on, then it stores all hinting data at file open time: PREP, CVT, FPGM, HDMX and glyph programs (but not VDMX). What does FontLab do with font-level TrueType hints? Do your current products preserve the font-level (TrueType) hinting? This is what would be necessary to import a super-hinted TrueType font, re-arrange glyphs, and preserve the total hinting.ġ. Modified on: Wed, 20 Sep, 2017 at 6:04 PM Solution home FontLab Studio 5 Fontlab Studio 5 Truetype hinting control for import and export in FontLab Studio 5
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