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- 5timuli0
It really depends on what you're trying to do here Marcelom.
MrOneHundred, your method will give you a bounding box round the glyph outlines but in reality fonts sidebars don't begin and end at the outline constraints at either end of the glyph. For example, a capital T in a font will have the horizontal bar extend outside of the sidebearings, letters such as H and N will have sidebearings set quite a bit away from the glyph edges. This means the method isn't appropriate for true kerning purposes.
Unfortunately there's no way to accurately do this in Illustrator. As soon as you convert to outlines all the kerning and spacing information is lost. And, of course, every font is different.
- Good point. I guess a type editor app might give you the kerning info, so maybe a screenshot...MrOneHundred
- ...into Illy and my method gives you a good starting point from there?MrOneHundred
- agreed... I hope you had a easy moce :)moamoa
- Yeah sounds like a good start. The move went well, thanks! A few issues with y previous employer but nothing I can't handle.5timuli
- sort out with a few stern emails :D5timuli
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Hey, I´m asking how to kern
- Fungal_Bum0
Fuck you, Gary.
MrOneHundred.
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Some clients dont mind about kerning, but designers does.