Re: Has anyone designed fonts for their language

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:55:18PM +0200, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2001, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> > I keep hearing about things but not knowing what they are, like hinting. Can
> > anyone point out a resource (preferably online) to merely learn the
> > terminology and theory behind fontmaking for me?
> >
>
> The online manual of pfaedit is pretty good
> (pfaedit.sourceforge.net/overview.html). Basically, kerning determines
> the spacing between letters. You'd want A and V to overlap, so that the
> top left of V is over the right of the A. Hinting is about showing
> fonts on screen. When computing pixel positions out of bezier curves,
> you'd often place a pixel half-way to pixel positions on the screen.
> Hinting gives extra information for the accurate and pleasing placement
> of pixels in those cases where a single pixel makes a lot of
> difference.
Thanks for the info. I did find the overview part of the docs for pfaedit
just a bit after posting my question, and it looks like it might actually
make some sense. And I see the prog now has some support for TrueType :)

>
> Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.valdyas.org
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