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in the Advanced mode, which is covered a little later on.
We would like to reiterate, however, that the Easy mode is
perfectly adequate for probably 90% of our Fontographer
customers. Don’t feel obligated to deal with the Advanced
mode unless you want to; it usually isn’t necessary.
Auto Kerning
Since we have taken the pain out of spacing a font, you
might assume we did the same for kerning a font, and you’d
be right! Auto Kerning does a very good job of creating
kerning pairs automatically for your fonts. Like Auto
Spacing, it has two modes: Easy and Advanced. Easy-
mode Auto Kerning has a bit more to specify than Auto
Spacing, but it is still pretty simple.
To Auto Kern in the Easy mode:
1. Choose “Auto Kern” from the Metrics menu.
2. First, you get to decide how many kerning pairs
should be created. You can either choose “As many
as it takes,” or you can set an upper limit on how
many should be created. This is a personal
preference; some people like to have only 100 or
200 pairs in a font; others don’t care. We
recommend limiting the number of pairs to 1,000 or
so.
3. Next, choose a setting for how close together you
want the kerning pairs to be. This control is a lot like
the one in Auto Spacing, only for kerning.
4. Finally, there is a checkbox for changing existing
kerning pairs. This is useful for when you have
manually set some special kerning pairs, and want
Fontographer to do the rest without changing your
work.
Here is an example of some potential kerning pairs, as seen
Fontographer User's Manual
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