User Guide

Make Horizontal Serif
To make a horizontal serif (a serif that attaches to a
horizontal stem) choose four of the serif’s points and select
this item from the Hints menu.
Make Diagonal Hint
Select four of a diagonal stem’s defining points and
choose “Make Diagonal Hint” from the Hints menu.
Diagonal hints are used only in Fontographer’s internal
bitmap generation and for TrueType. PostScript doesn’t use
diagonal hints.
Build Serif
When you choose “Build Serif” from the Hints menu with
two hints selected, one from each side of the vertical stem
at its upper end, a serif hint will replace those two hints. Or
you can select four points and choose “Build Serif.”
Split Serif
Select a double-head serif hint and choose this item to split it
into two separate hints.
Flip Hint Direction
This item will change the direction of the current hint.
Generally, hints should point inward but there are some
exceptions. The direction of the hint tells you which way
the outline will be adjusted when the pixels are fit to the grid
during outline rasterization.
Hint Parameters
You can change the hint parameters for selected
characters using the Hint Parameters dialog. When you
change hints for certain characters, you reset the default
hints for just those characters. Other characters in the font
Fontographer User's Manual
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