Hello, _ retr0! Just wanna drop this comment to say that I am glad your videos exist. This is the first FontForge tutorial I've seen from you and I can easily absorb all the info you have given. Very straightforward. I'm excited to see more of your typeface tutorials, particularly FontForge tutorials. I've been browsing other avenues to learn this powerful software since the official documentation is so outdated, and then I found your channel, a good resource. Have a good day always, _retr0!
why would you set the auto width to zero befor auto kerning? my letters were glued onto each other. So i set it back to seperation 50. But min and max i ignored. For some letters like P and T i had to correct the auto kerning afterwards. But it helped a lot. Thank you!
_Merci_ 26 x 2 x 26 x 2 or 52² pair entries (maybe fewer - not tried it yet) - That *C f* pair looked like it employed _voodoo_ "Touching" this option I will investigate _Danke_
This is literally the most automated and non-tedious method of kerning in FontForge. You literally don't need to worry about side bearings, letter spacing, or even the kerning itself because the distance between every letter kerned with this method is automatically the same. It has already done the majority of the work for you. You can just sit there and do the last step: fix what you don't like. The more manual process would be to change side bearings for every glyph so that even without kerning, letters are optically equal in spacing. Then, instead of using the option "Use individual kerning pairs", you use "Use a matrix of kerning classes", allowing you to group multiple characters into one class. And then you go through every class combination to kern. Automation doesn't give you perfect results. It just helps you for the most part. If you want to have good kerning, do it manually.
Yeah, that should produce all pairs already touching each other, yet some pairs are not touching. Why is that? It would save me one year of work if they were all produced touching.
Just in case anyone encounters the problem I had, here it goes: When I am in the kerning menu that you are in at 2:32 - 3:35, there is no "OK" button to save the changes. I can't scroll down to see it and it appears nowhere else in the window. But I found a way to select OK without seeing it. If you change and entry and hit enter, then it goes to the next entry. But if you change an entry and then uncheck "hide unused columns" and then recheck it, and then hit "enter" then enter clicks OK , saves it, and closes the window. You don't have to do this after every entry. You can change as many as you want do this and it will save it all.
Man, you saved my life! Thanks a lot for this advanced and simple guide!
Hello, _ retr0! Just wanna drop this comment to say that I am glad your videos exist. This is the first FontForge tutorial I've seen from you and I can easily absorb all the info you have given. Very straightforward.
I'm excited to see more of your typeface tutorials, particularly FontForge tutorials. I've been browsing other avenues to learn this powerful software since the official documentation is so outdated, and then I found your channel, a good resource.
Have a good day always, _retr0!
fantastic video thank you!
Thank you so much
Hi retro, i like your channel. Can you make the next video tutorial pls :)
why would you set the auto width to zero befor auto kerning? my letters were glued onto each other. So i set it back to seperation 50. But min and max i ignored. For some letters like P and T i had to correct the auto kerning afterwards. But it helped a lot. Thank you!
hello retr0, one question, can i bulk edit the number in deltaX_adv column? so i dont have to edit it 1-by-1
Really helpful. Thank you.
Very useful!
Thank you.
_Merci_ 26 x 2 x 26 x 2 or 52² pair entries (maybe fewer - not tried it yet) - That *C f* pair looked like it employed _voodoo_ "Touching" this option I will investigate _Danke_
is there any quick way to select all the pairs so I can change the distance at once?
It should be a basic option in all that kind of programs, but we live in the Universe, where it somehow doesn't work like that xd
3:18 bruh. If you're gonna show us an easier way, then what was the point of this video? And where is the easier version?
This is literally the most automated and non-tedious method of kerning in FontForge. You literally don't need to worry about side bearings, letter spacing, or even the kerning itself because the distance between every letter kerned with this method is automatically the same. It has already done the majority of the work for you. You can just sit there and do the last step: fix what you don't like.
The more manual process would be to change side bearings for every glyph so that even without kerning, letters are optically equal in spacing. Then, instead of using the option "Use individual kerning pairs", you use "Use a matrix of kerning classes", allowing you to group multiple characters into one class. And then you go through every class combination to kern.
Automation doesn't give you perfect results. It just helps you for the most part. If you want to have good kerning, do it manually.
Yeah, that should produce all pairs already touching each other, yet some pairs are not touching. Why is that? It would save me one year of work if they were all produced touching.
how to save the font file that we are working on has not been completed and later so we can continue working on it...
Please reply my coment
File > Save as.. .And you save it as a sfd file.
Just in case anyone encounters the problem I had, here it goes:
When I am in the kerning menu that you are in at 2:32 - 3:35, there is no "OK" button to save the changes. I can't scroll down to see it and it appears nowhere else in the window. But I found a way to select OK without seeing it. If you change and entry and hit enter, then it goes to the next entry. But if you change an entry and then uncheck "hide unused columns" and then recheck it, and then hit "enter" then enter clicks OK , saves it, and closes the window. You don't have to do this after every entry. You can change as many as you want do this and it will save it all.