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Period before "y"

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Posted by rugi000 in
2 Nov 2004 — 4:24am

i'm designing my first font (actually a bastardization of helvetica) and i'm experiencing a little problem.

i'm using fontlab. every time i generate the font and view it in say, illustrator, the period after the lower case 'y' moves itself before the 'y'. something like this: "honorar.y"

any ideas why this is happening?

magnus_gaarde
2 Nov 2004 — 5:07am
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I have had somewhat the same problem with different letters though. I am guessing that you have autospaced and autokerned the font. That is what I did and weird things started happening. Certain letter pairs were kerned as much as -1000.
I had to go back and change the values manually in Fontlab's kerning dialog to get this straightened out.

Check the kerning values for the glyph pair "y."

Magnus

rugi000
2 Nov 2004 — 3:33pm
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thanks. i'll give that a try.

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