User Guide

A ligature is a character made up of one or more
characters. Most commercial fonts have some commonly
used ligatures like “,” and “ú.” However, Fontographer
makes it easy to create ligatures of your own without
drawing a thing.
To create a ligature:
1. Open the Outline Window for the “f.”
2. Choose “Select All” and then choose “Duplicate” to
create another “f.”
3. Move the new “f” to the right.
4. Go back to the Font Window.
5. Copy the “l” into the same window using the “Copy
Reference” command from the Edit menu.
6. Move the referenced “l” to the right of the second “f.”
7. Choose “Unlink Reference” from the Edit menu.
8. Choose “Remove Overlap” from the Element menu.
Changing the character width
You probably noticed the vertical line that runs through the
second “f.” This is the character width line. Width is a
moveable vertical line which specifies the width of each
character. (Width is covered in more detail in Chapter 5.)
When you print a line of text, the origin line of the next
character is placed on top of the width line of the current
Fontographer User's Manual
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