User Guide

Option or Alt key, and drag until the BCP handle appears.
Move one or both BCP handles directly on top of their
curve points to get sharp corners with slope control.
Fontographer has vertical “zones” that are important for
uniformity in the font. If letters fall into these zones, the
font will have uniform height. If not, your characters could
unexpectedly vary in height at small sizes. Some guidelines
to keep in mind:
Technically, the “O” and the “o” (and other curvy letters)
are said to overshoot the “H” and the “x” by about 4%,
which makes them appear to be the same size as straight
letters. We take advantage of Type 1 fonts’ ability to align
upper and lower coordinates vertically within these
overshoot zones, but only if the font is drawn according to
the above rules (or if you adjust the vertical alignment
zones from the Vertical Alignment Zones dialog accessed
through the Hints menu).
Don’t create outlines with overlapping paths.
Whenever a tool is selected from the tool palette in the
Outline Window, the information displayed in the
information bar updates to accommodate the specific tool
and its behavior. Some of the indicators that appear are
Fontographer User's Manual
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