User Guide

effective our auto-spacing is, even in a worst-case scenario!
To automatically space a font:
1. Open one of your fonts.
2. Choose “Select All” from the Edit menu.
3. Choose “Set Width” from the Metrics menu.
4. Set as illustrated below:
Fontographer will automatically set the spacing of the
characters to be a uniform width of 400 em units,
producing an awful, monospaced font.
5. Click on any character to deselect all.
6. Choose “Open Metrics Window” from the Windows
menu.
7. Type the word “Space.”
Rather than manually setting different widths for each
monospaced character, you can Auto Space the font.
8. Choose “Auto Space” from the Metrics menu.
The Auto Space dialog appears.
The dialog has an Easy and Advanced mode.
9. Choose “Easy” by clicking on the Easy radio button.
10. Enter a value for spacing the characters.
This is the result of a value “30” entered in the text edit box.
Fontographer User's Manual
5: Metrics: Spacing and Kerning Page #3