User Guide

See “Kerning Assistance” in Chapter 5 for a detailed
explanation.
Metrics Assistance
Metrics Assistance allows you to set up a table for kerning
that uses certain characters as bases or prototypes for the
rest of the characters in any class you set up. See “Metrics
Assistance” in Chapter 5 for more information and detail.
Set Metrics
Set Metrics allows you to set width, as well as left and right
sidebearings. You can also apply values to specific sets of
characters. Choose the characters you want to apply the
metrics settings to, from the categories under Which
character. These include: A-Z, a-z, 0-9, Punctuation,
Accent characters, Symbols, or Selected characters. Add
any other characters to apply the setting to, in the provided
textbox.
The next area in the dialog tells you “What to do.” You can
choose to set the sidebearings or width according to a
particular character’s measurement, or you can pick an em
unit value to type in to set the width, and/or sidebearings for
the selected characters. You may also add an amount to
that specification, either in em units, or as a percentage of
the distance represented by the character’s metrical
measurements, or the value you chose.
Set Width
This dialog allows you to set the width of any selected
character(s). If you are creating a monospaced font, select
all the characters and set their width to a chosen number of
units. Fontographer will set them all at once.
If the spacing of your characters is too tight or too loose,
you can use the Change width by em units option to change
the width of selected characters by a specified number of
em square units.
If you need to increase or decrease the width of selected
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