Re: [Fontforge-users] Creating Bold and Italic versions of a font

[Dave <da...@co...>]

Thanks Max, I appreciate the quick response! So if I want to use 3
different files for each version (bold, italic, regular), I just create 3
fonts, all in the same family? Is there anything special I have to do to
specify that one of them is bold, the other italic and the last one
regular? Does this also mean that it will generate 3 different files (i.e.
3 separate ttf's)?

Thanks!
Dave

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Max Rabkin <ta...@us...>wrote:

> Different fonts (bold, italic, regular, etc.) in a family are
> effectively different fonts with the same family name. To make them,
> you follow exactly the same procedure as making the regular. However,
> once you have bold and regular you may be able to make other weights
> (or at least, draft versions of other weights) by interpolation.
>
> --Max
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Dave <da...@co...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using python to create a font. I'm creating the font from .svg files.
> > Here is an example:
> >
> > glyph = font.createChar(-1,"A")
> > glyph.importOutlines("A.svg")
> >
> > Is there a way to use two other .svg files for the bold and italic
> versions
> > of the font?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Dave
> >
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