I'm creating a font in FontForge (importing SVG vectors).

There will only be capitals in this font and I'm wondering before I begin kerning everything:

Is there a way of copying characters with all their settings... ie. Copy A to a.

Just copying in the Edit menu is not working.

Thanks!

Kerning information is used to adjust the space between specific pairs of characters.

Example: the Aa pair


To select one or more cells, press the left mouse button on the first or
last cell of your selection and drag the cursor across the cells you want to
select. You will see the selection highlighted.

Copy all excepting the kerning

Hey Claude, Thanks for the reply.

However it doesn't seem to work.

Don't worry though, I'll come back to this later.

It seems I have a huge job of kerning now

Cheers,

Olly

Set the bearings right and kerning is a doodle

Any tips Koeiekat?

Like I said. Start with the glyph position and the left and right bearings. You know that characters like A and V and so on and C and so on need tighter character spacing than an H and so on and that D and so on need only need tighter character spacing at the right.
So position the glyphs correctly and adjust the bearings to need. Not that difficult.

Great stuff! Thanks Koeiekat.
I'm getting into the swing of things now using the metrics window

The learning curve is steep. Typography is more than creating shapes. Interested in your progress and result

Copy
http://cjoint.com/13ma/CCoxsf5f518_copy1.png
Paste
http://cjoint.com/13ma/CCoxryTG7uN_paste.png

kern
http://cjoint.com/13ma/CCoxtwvsOqi_metric1.png

Yes, that is one way. Auto kerning will do that. Still better to set the bearings first ... imho

The best is no kern.

Depends. When it is an connecting script font, absolutely true. If not ...

The letter e is too close to the letter y.

Thanks guys! You are truly a great set of mentors.
I hope to share something with you soon

Don't know which font you are showing but it looks a lot like a muddy version of the OPTIZeppelin-Script

which has no kerning pairs at all and does everything with the bearings, as a connecting script should do.

As said before, connecting scripts - if well done - do not need kerning. Not connecting fonts often do need kerning. An AW combination is not the same as an Ac or Al combination.

The letters A and X are different.

Sure this is what you showed before?

Bien oui!

Interesting. Thank you. Never before saw this one. Never ever even heard of it. A Typositor typeface? Looks like never been digitized apart from the OPTI variation which is back-slanted a bit. Yet, as said, connecting script fonts should not need kerning. Though ... capitals pairs often do. Try the FA on this one.

Remarque: Opti Yale Script is a copy Aerolite (above).