From the course: Design an Italic Typeface
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Establishing fit - Glyphs App Tutorial
From the course: Design an Italic Typeface
Establishing fit
- [Speaker] Since we began this with an existing font, we've carried over the glyph's app metric keys that govern the spacing of the Roman. As a result, most of the uppercase letters are already systematically fit. The same holds true for most of the lowercase, too. And to prove that, let's take a look at the H. And if I go to the Edit menu and select Sample Text, I can select a sample string of H's with all of the capitals. And we'll move this over to the center. And as you can see, it's pretty much the way we would expect. It fit well in the Roman, and all we did on the capitals was slope them to the right by 15 degrees. And so the spacing should work the same as it did in the Roman. Now the lowercase, and if we go to Edit, select Sample Text and look at the lowercase N, N necklace. In the View, let's turn off the metrics so that we can see the space between the letters a little bit better. You can see here that, as I mentioned at the top of these videos, that some of the forms have…
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