User Guide

How Style Merger works
Style Merger’s main window is mostly a collection of
buttons. The button that you should press next always has a
bold outline around it, to guide you through the family
building process (pressing the Return key always has the
effect of clicking on the currently bolded button). Buttons
which you are not supposed to press yet are dimmed so that
you can’t press them by mistake.
On the left side of the window are the style buttons: Plain,
Bold, Italic, and BoldItalic. When you start up Style
Merger, Plain is the only button you can initially press (other
than the Help button, which is always available). In
addition, Plain has a bold outline around it, indicating that this
is the button you should press first.
Pressing the Plain button begins the process of creating a
family.
A file selection dialog box appears, allowing you to choose
your fonts. Say you choose “Nova-Normal,” because that is
the Plain style of Nova. Clicking “Plain” always wipes out
any previously selected fonts and allows you to start over.
So if you are making a family, and you choose the wrong
fonts by accident, simply press “Plain” to automatically
remove your mistakes and start over.
After you choose the Plain bitmap, the little suitcase file
image to the right of the button changes from gray to black,
indicating that you’ve already selected a Plain font. In
addition, a proposed new family name appears just above
the Save Family button on the right. This name isn’t set in
stone: you can change it when you press the Save Family
button. Notice that the Save Family button is disabled until
you choose the second font to merge into the family.
Now that you’ve chosen a Plain face, Style Merger enables
the Bold, Italic, and BoldItalic buttons, and it also puts a
bold outline around the Bold button, directing you to press
Fontographer User's Manual
8: Creating a Font Family Page #4