Good luck!

Thank you for your quick reply! I think that I sort of understand what we are talking about here. As a result I will rescale the shapes in Illustrator in order to make them fit to even points.

If I’m ever able to produce a font which is worth selling — I’ll will advertise it on this site — fingers crossed…:-)

All the best.

Alex

Well, don’t worry too much about this. Maybe I should change the text a little to prevent misunderstanding. But the thing is that to start with, the scale of the drawings this way is huge. And adding the snap to point each anchor point will snap into the grid at “even points” (no commas). So you don’t have to worry about distortion.

In cases where things have to be super exact for some reason there is also possibility to use a larger scale, 2000 x 2000 point or even more, both in Illustrator and FontLab. But going too high can result in loosing ability to save the type in certain formats, like OT with PostScript flavor.

Hope this helps a little.

I’m not sure if this forum is still active — but I’ll give it a try. In your example you say:

“I round off to the nearest one digit after the comma (or point, depending on where you live) only to make it less confusing”

Is it required to round to whole points in Illustrator or can I also work with e.g. 728.4578 pt? In other words when I start rounding the numbers won’t this inaccurately change certain proportions of the glyphs?

Thank you.

Alex

Thanks

Sylvia

first of all thank you so much. This article was such a great help and I even sent it to Font Lab. I had a question and they have sent me your link back how to do so. So i think they liked it. But the question is still open. I have a letter with fillings and with strokes (done with paintbrush). It works when I copy it but the fillings don’t come with it only the outlines. I also can’t import EPS as they say the file is to big. I used your 1000pt and saved it as EPS but always fails and copy and paste I suffer with the fillings. What can I do? Would you like to try it on your own as I sent them my file and they don’t use CS4 somehow.

Thanks again for bringing this easy step forward

Sylvia

FontLab has a program, PhotoFont which makes it possible to make multi-coloured fonts.

So, the main thing is to make your drawings in black and white if you want to make an ordinary font.

And thanks for your kind words. I do a lot of teaching and lecturing myself and as I have mentioned somewhere here before, this blog is more and less based on answers pointed to me by students and co-workers.

Regards,

you should sell this tutorial to Lab Font. It’s 100% more clearer than there manual. Finally mine worked. Just have problems with copying my font from Illustrator into Fontlab as some parts of my letters is filled out with color to create a 3D effect. Have you got any clue?

Anyways. 100% recommendable and will send this to my lecture

Sylvia