Re: [fontforge-users] change weight

[Freeman G. <fre...@gm...>]

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 11:46 PM Abraham Lee <tis...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hey, Freeman!
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10:05 PM Freeman Gilmore <
> fre...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Is there an ez way to change the weight of a glyph and maintain the
>> width  and height?
>>
>
> Not a built-in way, and no non-linear built-in way either, for the case of
> a serif style bold where the stems gain the weight but most other aspects
> stay the same.
>
> However, you can uniformly fake a change to the weight in a couple of
> steps, keeping the glyph the exact same proportions:
>
> 1. Measure starting glyph (w)idth & (h)eight.
> 2. Change weight by some (a)mount using the “Change Weight”, setting the
> type to CJK so it’s uniform.
> 3. Scale the glyph back to the original size using the independent scale
> factors [w/(w+a), h/(h+a)] in the [x, y] directions, respectively.
>
Not sure what "independent scale factors" is but I used Transform window
(?) which worked fine.   The Round To Int button, in this window did not
work?   Other wise worked like a charm.

Thank you,
ƒg

>
> The final weight change won’t be exactly (a), but it will be close.
>
> HTH,
> Abraham
>
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