If you are a novice, than you should manually kern, so you can begin to understand the subtlety of spacing. Using automatic features will teach you nothing. The more time you spend determining the proper side-bearings of your glyphs, the less kerning you will need.
Do you for instance use automatic kerning (and metrics as well)? Any professional type designers (my reason for asking you;) using some kind of automatic functions inside FL/FG at all?
Although auto-kerning could be useful for doing a quick sloppy job, I agree with James: it will reduce your own understanding; and it will produce inferior results. I've never used it. The only auto stuff I use is things like weight change and slanting, but even for those a lot of tweaking is required.
Thanks Eduardo - Sounds interesting and alot of opinions to read. To me it seems.....well, I cant really see any problems with the examples given, but it
20 Apr 2004 — 7:40am
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If you are a novice, than you should manually kern, so you can begin to understand the subtlety of spacing. Using automatic features will teach you nothing. The more time you spend determining the proper side-bearings of your glyphs, the less kerning you will need.
20 Apr 2004 — 7:54am
James - Sure. I
20 Apr 2004 — 7:59am
Do you for instance use automatic kerning (and metrics as well)? Any professional type designers (my reason for asking you;) using some kind of automatic functions inside FL/FG at all?
a little of topic but what...
20 Apr 2004 — 8:17am
I never use auto kern nor auto metrics. Spacing a font usually takes as much time, sometimes more, as drawing one.
20 Apr 2004 — 10:25am
Although auto-kerning could be useful for doing a quick sloppy job, I agree with James: it will reduce your own understanding; and it will produce inferior results. I've never used it. The only auto stuff I use is things like weight change and slanting, but even for those a lot of tweaking is required.
hhp
20 Apr 2004 — 11:58am
Check this discussion at Typographica, Peter.
20 Apr 2004 — 12:44pm
Thanks Eduardo - Sounds interesting and alot of opinions to read. To me it seems.....well, I cant really see any problems with the examples given, but it
20 Apr 2004 — 1:01pm
There's something here (scroll down, see the comments).
20 Apr 2004 — 1:27pm
>>To a "novice" it
20 Apr 2004 — 2:49pm
Joe - Well I
22 Apr 2004 — 10:40am
Advanced Search gave me these links:
- *How do you measure you kerning?
- Kerning table
23 Apr 2004 — 2:38am
Really thanks Eduardo! Perfect...
read read read read;)
20 Apr 2004 — 2:23pm
moved to BUILD