Topic: Kerning Questions • RoboFont

Tagged: classes, grouping, groups, kern, kern center, kerning, spacing

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August 13, 2013 at 16:00 #5675

Ian
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Hello,

Is there a way to duplicate a glyph along with all of its kerning metrics? For example, if I designed an “e” but wanted to create an “eacute” with all the same behaviour?

Along the same lines, can all the kerning rules for a glyph be copied and applied to another?

How do you create spacing and kerning classes mentioned in the grouping documentation, and how do you edit those groups in the Kern Center? http://doc.robofont.com/documentation/workspace/group-editor/

Thanks for you help.

August 13, 2013 at 16:51 #5676

Jackson
Participant

Check out MetricsMachine. Just about every user of Robofont does their kerning with it and it handles class-based kerning very well.

August 14, 2013 at 15:47 #5679

frederik
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You can create kerning groups by naming the group with @groupName

All group names starting with an @ will be listed in the kerning sheet

good luck

February 9, 2014 at 20:56 #5784

Ian
Member

Thanks Frederik,

I haven’t got these kerning groups to work. Am I understanding this correctly?

I made a group called “@square” made up of “H”, “M”, “N”. Then in the kerning center I enter “@square” into the text field to work with the same kerning for all three letters? That does not seem to be working.

thanks for your time,
Ian

February 11, 2014 at 12:18 #5785

frederik
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He Ian

Try to add a kerning pair with the ‘+’ button at the bottom. All your kerning groups, starting with a ‘@’ will be listed in the combo box

see http://doc.robofont.com/documentation/workspace/metrics/kern-center/

good luck!
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