User Guide

Have you ever checked out how many fractions are in your
font? If you have, you know that most commercial fonts
have a small number of fractions, if any. Historically, if you
wanted to type the fraction 3/8, you had to type the 3, the
forward slash, and the 8, and even then the fraction didn’t
look so hot! Fontographer makes it extremely easy to add
composite characters made up of more than one character
combined in a single character slot to your font. So you can
now have traditional fractions in all your fonts!
To create a fraction:
1. Go to the Font Window and double-click on the “3”
to open it.
2. Click on the “8” character slot in the Font Window
(it’s not necessary to open the Outline Window to
copy the character) and then select “Copy
Reference” from the Edit menu.
3. Click on the “3” Outline Window and
choose “Paste” from the Edit menu.
Fontographer pastes the number “8” on top of the “3.”
Fontographer User's Manual
1: Modifying Your Fonts Page #10