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Font and glyph creation (FontForge tutorial, chapter 1)
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- Article
- Level
- Beginner
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- Free
About this lesson
Starts a new font, sets em size and metrics, imports a bitmap guide and traces a glyph with curve, tangent and corner points, then sets the advance width.
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