rounding glyph corners -- but how?
first question:
is there a technique for rounding glyph corners without distorting the rest of the glyph using FontLab or Illustrator?
what i mean by this is how to make round corners on a P, D, B and other glyphs that have both straight lines and curves, but without changing the curves — just the corners.
second question:
how to create a rounded corner from a corner that consists of a straight line and a curve?
4.May.2008 11.47am
Christian Roberts wrote a script to do it.
4.May.2008 1.17pm
Christian Robertson
4.May.2008 1.26pm
Frederik Berlaen wrote the application Rounding UFO.
—-> http://www.typemytype.com/scripting/roundingufo/
6.May.2008 4.13am
that’s beautiful but still more complicated then it should be. i found i way to round corners with a simple FontLab action, but regretably, the action changes the glyph curves, as well. in Illustrator it’s even more complicated — you have to use the Outline Path function crawling menus and dialogs in multiple steps.
8.May.2008 6.28pm
I found a really cool Illustrator script for rounding corners. It rounds selected corners, and leaves anything else untouched. In the short time I’ve been using it, I haven’t seen it distort anything.
8.May.2008 6.56pm
Xtream Path is an Illustrator plug-in that lets you do practically any kind of round corner thing you want, plus a lot of other neat stuff. It’s not free, but its flexible and easy to use. It’d be great if somebody did something like it for FontLab. I’d buy it.