From the course: Design a Condensed Sans Serif Typeface
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Test and fix spacing - Glyphs App Tutorial
From the course: Design a Condensed Sans Serif Typeface
Test and fix spacing
- It makes sense when we're talking about spacing, to begin with the space itself. The default width for a word space in glyphs is 600 units. So if I click on the space here in the font window, and look down over here, the width by default is set to 600. Our font would be better off with about a quarter of that. We could just open up the space glyph and set the width to 150, but it will benefit us to relate the width of the space to the width of the H. We can do that by typing a formula into the width box. So typing equals H times point four, and then hitting return will give us a width of 160 units. And it will ensure that if the width of the H changes, our space will change right along with it. We've been setting the side bearings on all of our glyphs as we've moved along, and we've been using formulas to calculate the fit for many characters. Let's look at what happens when we change the spacing on the cap H from 50 units to 40 units. So I'll click on the cap H, set the left side…
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