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Font Design Help
A rewritten, expanded edition updated to FontLab 5 giving a practical walk through the process of designing a font. This is not about artistic considerations, but the practicalities of putting a font together.
It's available at Amazon, but Lulu's version is much better printing.
The basic procedure we use for font design is found in this book. it is a step by step following of a new font design with tips and comments along the way. This is the book we use for training our new apprentices.
This is the only source for the actual font designed in the book. Buy it now for only $7 for the OpenType Pro version. The only bug that I've seen it that the name comes up as Arom Oldstyle in the font lists after installation.
Here's a list of composite glyphs in the 8-bit list you will need to generate after you have the caps and lowercase glyphs designed. You will also need to have the accents completed.
Go under the Glyph menu in FontLab and choose Generate Glyphs. paste in the list found below. Set up the dialog box as you see below and click OK.
This will aid you in setting your basic letterspacing as well as providing hundreds of potentially problematic kerning pairs for you to adjust, if necessary.
Here's a little sheet of body copy to check your normal letterspacing. The zipped folder contains an InDesign CS4 doc, a Word doc, and a rich text formatted document.
These are pages of fonts designed for page layout of books, magazines, and booklets specifically.
Here on this page I can discount as much as I like & you will find discounts from 45% to 75%. Here you can also order all of my font designs beginning in 1983.