User Guide

Chapter Three
Altering Outlines
Altering Logos
Paths and Points
Power Duplicating
Adding Serifs
Editing and Placing BCPs
Auto Curvature
In any art or craft there is a line between grace and excess
that the artist usually doesn’t want to cross.
Fontographer’s Outline Window can help you walk that
line with style. Self-expression knows few boundaries with
Fontographer. The only limits are your own imagination and
skill—the raw materials, the drawing tools and layers, offer
you all you need to start creating typefaces. The Outline
Window is the place to test your creative wings. So go for
it! Add serifs to a sans-serif font, create geometric designs,
or import your favorite illustrations from other PostScript
drawing programs. If you want to learn more about the
basics of font production make sure you read the
Typography section and Type Designers section of the
Bibliography in the Appendix at the back of this manual.
The tools provided in Fontographer’s Outline Window let
you alter graphic images or font characters in a number of
different ways. You can move points or paths, duplicate
points, merge points, insert points, remove them, or drag
them. You may want to alter your outlines based on other
images placed in the Template layer of the window, either
using copied images from other characters, or scanned
images for tracing. Refer to Chapter 2, “Creating New
Fonts,” if you’d like more information about tracing a
scanned image.
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