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published: true | ||
layout: bookpage | ||
weight: 16 | ||
category: Getting To Know FontForge | ||
title: General UI Introduction | ||
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FontForge has the same interface on Windows, Mac OS and GNU/Linux operating systems. | ||
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Here is a short introduction to the essential features by Dave Crossland at a Crafting Type workshop, a non-profit type design workshop that supports the FontForge project: | ||
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<iframe width="853" height="480" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/_EhwHL1aloI?rel=0&showinfo=0&t=1m55s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> | ||
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There are 4 main windows: | ||
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#### 1. The Font View Window | ||
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This window appears when you first run FontForge. | ||
It shows a table of the glyphs in the font. | ||
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#### 2. The Character View Window | ||
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Double click a glyph in the Font View to open it in the Character View. | ||
This is where you can draw and edit glyphs, either one at a time with a tab interface, or side by side with a prepared text file of words to step through. | ||
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#### 3. The Metrics View Window | ||
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Go to "_**Window** ⇨ **New Metrics Window**_", | ||
or "_**Metrics** ⇨ **New Metrics Window**_". | ||
Or select some glyphs in the Font View and hit <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>K</kbd>. | ||
You can also drag and drop glyphs from the Font View to the Metrics View. | ||
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This is where you can adjust the spacing and kerning of your font. | ||
You can also step through a prepared word list text file here. | ||
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#### 4. The Font Info Window | ||
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Go to "_**Elements** ⇨ **Font Info**_". | ||
Here you'll find all the _metadata_ about the font. | ||
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#### 5. The Typesetting Environment, for Testing | ||
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Outside any font editor, you'll need a typesetting system to test your fonts in use. | ||
This is one of the **big secrets** of professional type designers: | ||
A lot of the most important work in a typeface design project is done outside the font editor, in testing documents created in a typesetting system. | ||
The main systems are: | ||
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* Web (Firefox, Chromium, etc) | ||
* DTP tools (Scribus, Inkscape, etc) | ||
* Word Processors (Libre Office, AbiWord, Calligra Words, etc) | ||
* Programming Page Layout Processors (LaTeX, ConTeXt, SILE, ShoeBot, Even, etc) |