From de87ec942b5d1e63cf81a147fc6856cc9de0f58f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Simpson Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 16:09:16 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note on bubble kern outlines --- Documentation/Documentation.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/Documentation.md b/Documentation/Documentation.md index 4681933..81fc7d9 100644 --- a/Documentation/Documentation.md +++ b/Documentation/Documentation.md @@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ It is crucial the width of the corresponding layers are the same (e.g. the 'Thin Once defined/drawn for every glyph, BubbleKern is then run. I have prepared `Metropolis BubbleKern Pairs.txt` for this. **Any kern pairs must go in this file/BubbleKern must only be run using this file.** +As a guide, I am using 56, 53 & 50 as offset values when drawing the kern bubbles for Thin, Regular & Black, respectively. As a rule, I try to honor the values already arrived at by HT Letterspacer. + ## Cursify I'm largely using Glyph's 'Cursify' tool to do the italics. This yeilds better results that simply slanting the glyph shapes from the regular/normal glyph, though from memory I was doing something tricky like slanting the vertical bars and cursifying everything else.