But the FontLab interface will not have noticed your changes. You can see the glyphs vectors, also any template images and guides on the. the number of pixels available for rasterization, derived from point-size and resolution. But it depends entirely on the size of the contours in the glyph. K-Type fonts are made using Fontographer, the FontLab companys mid-level. You will find, if you are eventually going to make a TrueType font, that the structure resulting from this approach gives you everything you need to use the interpolate hint instruction to control the middle of the bend. Each glyph in the font contains its own little hint program. Then I place nodes at these positions on the outline, and do constained movements of the control handles coming off these nodes in order to adjust the weight through the bend towards the extrema. I actually managed to do this by editing an open-source font with FontLab Studio 5 and adding my own custom glyph. Then I draw guidelines between the opposite control handles of the inner and outer curves, noting where these cross the outline. I do this by moving just the vertical control handles from the extrema points, until the bend of the S is the height I want it and the distance at the middle is appropriate to the weight of the typeface. Then I am ready to define the middle section. I judge by eye where I think the upper left and lower right inner and outer curves should be, and place extrema points here. First I define the top and bottom parts of the letter, ignoring the middle section.
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