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Fitting basics with metric keys - Glyphs App Tutorial
From the course: Glyphs App Essential Training
Fitting basics with metric keys
- [Voiceover] Spacing a font is about establishing a rhythm by coordinating the spaces between letters. If all the characters were the same basic shape, it would be much easier. But the left and right sides of letters, what type designers call sidebearings, have a lot of variety. Nonetheless, there are some profiles, like the vertical strokes and round shapes, which appear often. In this section, we're going to coordinate verticals and rounds, using a feature in Glyphs called Metric Keys. We're going to start our spacing with the capital H, because it has vertical strokes on both the left and the right. And we're going to use half of the stroke width as our basis for sidebearings. Half, because the space will be doubled when two Hs are placed next to one another. We use stroke width as a starting point, for the simple fact that the alphabet has a lot of vertical strokes. And if we're looking for rhythm, we're going to find it in repetition. To get the stroke width, we're going to use…
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