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Adding extrema points

Adding extrema points

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Adding extrema points

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For people not familiar with font design, extrema points are usually new to them. Basically, extrema points are simply anchor points that are added to the extreme edges of each glyph. To illustrate this concept, we're going to be working in the 04_010 directory. I've opened the Chunky Mobile file from there, and we're actually going to be editing one of the icons that we imported in our previous exercise, and that would be the Search icon. So, I'm just going to go right to the Search icon and I'm going to double-click that. Okay, to sort of illustrate the concept of what an extrema point is, I want you to imagine a bounding box all the way around the Search icon, all right? If we were to do that on the left edge here, if we were to come down, we would see at the extreme left edge of the icon there's an anchor point. At the bottom there's an anchor point, but on the right side here and on the top side here, we don't have those anchor points. So we don't have extrema points on those…

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