Article · Glyphs
Drawing good paths
By Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2013
About this lesson
Explains how to judge and fix vector outlines for fonts: handle length and the triangle rule, inflections, extrema, path direction, overlaps and smooth joins between segments. Many screenshots and keyboard shortcuts.
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