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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).

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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.

FontLab 8 Tip: Adding Colors II

In the normal editing mode, the Glyph Window show the element colors with a very light tint to avoid visual pollution ❸. Don't worry, the colors are there. Just hold the Space key to preview the glyph ❹.

FontLab 8 Tip: Adding Colors I

Colors are applied to elements. Just select the element in the Elements panel and open the color table using the dot at right ❶. You can also use the properties area, where there is more options, including color stroke ❷.

Please feel free to ask anything you need.

First of all, you need the layers to match. This means the glyphs in layers A and B need to have the name number and kind of nodes and handles, the same contour and element order, the same path direction and the same start nodes. Hit key 7 to see if the layers are matching or not.

FontLab 8 Tip: Element Guides II

Just like Font and Glyph guides, an Element guide can receive a name (A), a custom color (B), be locked (C), get is position numerically defined (D), a thickness (E) and an expression using values and parameters, like "ascender/2".

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FontLab 8 Tip: Element Guides I

Element guides belong to the element active when it was created and can be linked to nodes. To create it, choose the Guides tool (G), hold Alt and drag. These guides are good to mark sidebearings (A), anchor positions (B) or geometric middles (C).

FontLab Tip: From Straight to Curve

To turn a straight (1) into a curve, hold Alt and click it (2). The handles have he same size and angle at the beginning, but of course you can freely mode them (3). To turn one of the nodes into a tangent, just double-click it (4).

Twin Peaks importa a estética de Veludo azul. E também o ator que faz o investigador Dale Qualquercoisa. Como é Lynch plagiando Lynch, acho que está tudo certo. Curioso pensar que a TV aberta dos anos 90 era mais liberal que a dos anos 20...

Havia uma grande expectativa porque a série fazia um sucesso enorme nos EUA. Tinha até adesivo de carro com a pergunta "Quem matou Laura Palmer?" Era o tempo em que uma série estreava lá e demorava pelo menos seis meses para chegar aqui. E a Globo nunca passava a série completa, era sempre picotada.

O pessoal da Globo lá em 91 (se lembro bem) também deve ter achado isso. Passaram alguns episódios, pularam um, trocaram o horário, voltaram atrás, trocaram de novo, foi um caos. Eu mal consegui ver meia dúzia. Mas comprei o disco da trilha sonora. 😀

A música de Stardew Valley não é intrusiva, então deve funcionar bem como fundo. Já a TS de Twin Peaks é ótima, dá frio só de ouvir. E sou do tempo em que a série passou pela primeira vez, retalhada e abortada pela Globo. A TS talvez seja melhor do que a própria série.

Betty Blue Playlist · Igor Freiberger · 16 items

A trilha de Twin Peaks é ótima para trabalhar. A outra, eu não conhecia, mas não me conquistou. Retribuo com o que existe de Betty Blue no Spotify. Não é o disco original, mas uma versão de demos do compositor. Também é legal, mas o original é melhor.

open.spotify.com/playlist/4A4...