Igor Freiberger

I believe it will be the v3 of the suite with AI packed. I don't need this kind of "freedom", but it seems unavoidable.

A melhor é a Laboratorium, embora esta opinião seja um pouquinho suspeita. Andron em segundo. Depois Minion e Guardian. Mas a Palatino vem em quinto. 😜

Laboratorium samples with small caps and old style numbers. English, French, German, Vietnamese, Spanish, and Esperanto.

Serviu de base para a capa do disco do Vitor Ramil musicando poemas do Paulo Leminsky.

A tipografia tem problemas. R desequilibrado, M com excesso de peso, trave do N também um pouco excessiva.

More samples of Laboratorium —now using Hungarian, Czech, and Portuguese, all with Old Style figures.

FontAudit can check your glyphs to catch unusual stems (8, a stem different than the values you defined) or irregular stems (9, a stem different than others in the same glyph). Fix them to achieve consistency.

Once you made FontLab identify the typical stems of your master, double-click their names (6) and values (7) to edit them. It's highly recommended to have stems defined to ensure consistency along all glyphs. To start with values for H and O is usually easier.

FontLab 8 Tip: Stems

In File > Font Info you can define stems for each master automatically (1). A stem is a repeating value for vertical (2), horizontal (3), and diagonal stems (4). It can also be a value for distance in the apex of a curve (5).

More samples of Laboratorium —now in Italian, Dutch, Russian, and Polish. The second column of Russian shows how Cyrillic, Latin, and Greek scripts work together.

Laboratorium samples in English, French, German, and Spanish.

Sample with glyphs from extended Latin.

Sample with all weights.

Sample with symbols, part I.

Sample with random words.

Laboratorium, a serif type family for texts, is coming. Samples with Latin repertoire, weights, symbols, and random words.

Laboratorium: Call for Testers

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FontLab 8 Tip: Workspaces

After you arranged your FontLab interface, save it as a Workspace in Windows > Workspaces > Save Workspaces. Double-click its default name to rename (1). Drag its name to reorder the menu (2), import (3) and export (4) a Workspace with these buttons.

FontLab 8 Tip: Custom Shortcuts

Customize shortcuts in Tools > Commands and Shortcuts. All commands from menus are available (1). Use this field to find a command (2), type the shortcut and set it (3). In use shortcuts can't be set, click the red alert to remove them first (4).

Finally, add a bar before a glyph name to link the sidebearing to the opposite one (this is, left value is used in right sidebearing, and vice-versa). Especially useful for extended Latin (4).

Use a glyph name to link the sidebaring to it. Changes in the origin glyph will automatically affect the linked ones (2). Add Maths to simplify small adjustments. All the basic operations are supported (3).

FontLab 8 Tip: Sidebearing Secrets

In Glyph panel, you can set the values for left and right sidebearings. But you're not limited to integers.

Add a = before the value to lock it –so changes in contours will not affect the sidebearing (1).

Typical usage is in letters like Q or j. You set the element that goes beyond regular sidebearing as nonspacing (2) and then use other contours as reference (3). Q, for example, can use the O spacing this way so you don't need to calculate it (4).

FontLab 8 Tip: Nonspacing Elements

In the Elements panel there is a column to assign the nonspacing attribute (1). Elements marked with it are not considered in sidebearings or glyph width. But why this option does exist? +

FontLab 8 Tip: Indicators in Font Window II

Indicators 2, 3, and 4 can be turned on/off in Preferences > Font Window. But the indicator for modified glyphs since the last save operation is always shown.

FontLab 8 Tip: Indicators in Font Window I

Font Window shows: a gray line (1) when the glyph was modified; a red line (2) when there is an error with glyph name or Unicode code; a blue icon (3) when the glyph is an auto layer; and a note icon when it has a note (4).

FontLab 8 Tip: Preview in Glyph Window

While working in Glyph Window (1), at any moment you can preview the result simply holding the Space key (2). You also can use View > True View (or Shift + Space) to make the filled areas always visible (3).

FontLab 8 Tip: Sliding Nodes in Diagonals

Select a node in a diagonal segment (1). Hold the Alt/Option key and move it. The node slides along the diagonal, which angle does not change (2). If the node is a tangent, the handle position is also preserved.

FontLab 8 Tip: Moving Nodes But Not Handles

Select a node with handles (1), hold Alt/Option key, and move it. The handles are not moved (2). This works with any kind of node (3) and also with multiple nodes at once (4). Multiplier keys (Shift and Ctrl) can be used together.

FontLab 8 Tip: Coloring Many Glyphs at Once

1. Select the glyphs in Font Window. 2. Go to Glyph > Flatten Layer. 3. Open the Color panel. 4. Choose and Apply any color. Done. Why flatten? Since color is an element attribute, you need a single element in each glyph to do this.

FontLab 8 Tips: Adding Gradients III

Besides the liner gradient, FontLab offers the radial (4) and the conical gradients (5). Both are fully editable using the controls from Elements panel. A sample of all gradients can be seen in (6).

Da família de fontes Laboratorium.

FontLab 8 Tip: Adding Gradients II

You can add more colors to the gradient with a double click in the gradient control ❶ or in the ribbon from the color options in Elements panel ❷.

FontLab 8 Tip: Adding Gradients I

In the Elements panel, click in the color button and select one kind of gradient ❶. Select the initial colors to change them in the gradient control ❷. Slide the triangles to change how the gradient is built ❸.