User Guide

Multiple Master Fonts
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Designing Master Fonts
In FontLab you can make a Multiple Master font by “raising” it from a
single master font by adding an axis. When you have a one-axis MM font
you can add another axis and so on:
There is an automatic way in FontLab to take two fonts and make a MM
font from them using one as the first master and another as the second
master. This approach has pros and cons. On one hand, this process is fast
and convenient. On the other hand, you sometimes can get an improperly
made MM font. There is a chance that one of the font’s characters has not
been converted according to MM rules.
We have, however, included several special features in FontLab that can
help you make MM fonts from different fonts.