That brings us to the end of this tutorial I then installed the scaled font and opened Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and tested the font, to see if it needed changes or it’s simply part of the font style. If you’re unsure on what to do with the ‘generate font’ settings, head on over to my Abg Font Thumbnail tutorial for detailed instructions on generating fonts.Īfter you’ve generated your updated font,Ī) compare your scaled font with the original by double clicking on the font thumbnails to open.įor example, I’ve circled these in red for illustration purposes. Now we’ll look at reviewing and testing the scaled glyphs by generating and installing the font. How to kern will not be discussed in this tutorial because it’s such a big topic and this tutorial is focused on how to scale glyphs. This is what it looks like after adjusting the kerning.Ī) It turns out the ‘o’ and ‘x’ are vertically apart and need to be manually extended in ‘Char View’. This can be fixed using the kerning feature in Fontforge.Ī) I’ve circled these in red for illustration purposes. Start from ‘Font View’ then,Ī) type into the text box and review each glyph for inconsistencies or things you want to change.įor example, I’ve typed in ‘own fox jumps’ and noticed a couple of letters don’t join up. Metrics View Testingįirst we’ll review and test our scaled glyphs in ‘Metrics View’. Next, we’ll look at two (2) options to review and test our scaled glyphs,ī) generate and install the font, and test it in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Now wait for the transformation action to occur. If you’ve inserted additional ‘Layers’, or ‘Guide Layers,’ tick these two boxes, otherwise leave them unticked. In this guide, we just want to scale, therefore we’ll be selecting ‘Do Nothing’. If you would like to do more transforming and perform a sequence,Ī) Select the ‘Do Nothing’ drop down boxes, and choose the events that will occur after scaling. Selecting the ‘Glyph Origin’ option will scale our glyphs without compromising the original font structure, meaning kerning and spacing is maintained.Ī) Click ‘Scale Uniformly’ if you intend on scaling the width and height equally, orī) Click ‘Scale’ if you intend to scale with different width and height percentages.įor this tutorial, we’ll be selecting ‘Scale Uniformly’.Ī) I use between 140% - 160% when glyphs are around 600 above the baseline. Start by clicking on the drop down box next to the word ‘Origin:’ then, The transform’ dialogue box includes several settings for you to consider, including performing a sequence of events.Ī) This tutorial does not explore sequences. The transform dialogue box will pop up and the next step will be to change the settings. To do this, make sure you’re in ‘Font View’ then,Ī) Click on ‘Element>Transformations>Transform’. In this tutorial we’ll be selecting all the glyphs in Lovers Quarrel. This tutorial is shown on a Windows 10 computer with Fontforge version 03142020. It’s a free font for personal and commercial use with an open source license. The font used in this tutorial is called Lovers Quarrel. You can download Fontforge for Windows, Mac, or Linux from here. Then we’ll test the scaled glyphs to make sure we’re happy with them.Then we’ll go through the settings within the Transform dialogue box. Next we’ll select the glyphs we want to scale.We’ll start with a brief definitions section.This paper was contributed to heritage and history preservation of the fourth caliph of Muslims (Ali Bin Abi Taleb).This tutorial will show you how to scale glyphs in Fontforge. The imitated font(which called " Alkarrar") have a new style and new features(dots and was tested and evaluated by expert calligraphers to be ready to use in text editors software. The most difficult of imitation steps is finding the suitable shape of particular Arabic letter (that mean the glyph) because there is multiple shapes of the letter in the original copy of the Qur'an, especially that the Arabic letters often take multiple forms, depending where the letter falls in the word. The aim of this project is to imitate of fourth caliph Ali's handwriting digitally by using Microsoft Visual OpenType Layout Tool(MS-VOLT) that provides effective graphical user interface to add many features such as glyphs of(isolated and connected letters, dots, diacritics, ligatures letters. These words were compiled into the Qur'an or holy book of Islam. The written words are very vital matter in Arabians and Islamic, and so beautifying it and production it into an art form served as an approach to tribute, Allah.
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