Metrics: Spacing Uppercase And Lowercase RSB And LSB From Start To Finish Tutorial, FontLab 8

Описание: Font Metrics with Dave Lawrence, California Type Foundry
FontLab 8 Tutorial—How to Space Uppercase and Lowercase Letters of a Sans Serif Font, Complete Tutorial Masterclass.

In this video you will learn how to space a display font from start to finish.

And then use your spacing in your next font, and save time!

Sorry about the sound quality in this video!! It wasn't until the end that I realized it was this bad! But the information is still good.

00:00 The Types of Metrics
01:45 Setting Up Your Screen for Spacing
03:00 Starting Spacing with the ‘n’, and Common Values
04:22 Using the Waterfall to Check Spacing
05:18 Spacing the ‘o’
07:54 Checking Tracking
08:44 Spacing the ‘H’
10:52 Spacing the ‘O’
12:00 Fixing the Inner Spacing (Inner Counters)
13:23 Setting Simple Lowercase Letters
20:26 Fixing Incorrect Master Name
22:34 Using the Delta Filter to Fix the ‘u’ Counter
25:18 Spacing the ‘c’ and ‘e’
27:38 Spacing the ‘a’
29:20 The Jutting Letters—fjtr
36:37 Spacing the ‘j’ Using the Metrics Line
38:50 Spacing the Diagonal Letters—vwyxk
40:40 Binding Sidebearings
41:28 Another Diagonal Strategy
48:04 Spacing the ‘s’
51:03 Spacing the ‘z’
52:14 UPPERCASE LETTERS
52:55 LEFTZ
53:41 BRPD
54:55 Spacing DPB
57:27 Spacing ETFLZ
1:01:35 Spacing MN
1:02:09 Using Non-Spacing Elements
1:03:24 Spacing the C and G
1:05:28 Arch Letters: J and U
1:07:00 VWYA
1:11:26 Spacing the S
1:14:45 Using Test Words
1:17:00 Copying Metrics Into Another Font

Great work!