How would I go about changing the weight of a font? I’m new at all of this and the font I have to edit is really light making it super hard for me to see. Any advice would be lovely🤙🏽
The font weight is just how thick or thin the character shapes are. To increase the font weight, you'll have to go in and edit all the points in a character to make the shapes larger / thicker.
As a side note, the major feature I'm working on right now is a way to do this automatically... both "Auto-bold" and "Auto-italic" functions, where you can then specify how much or to what degree you'd like. There are "automatic" ways to mathematically find out how to move points around to make a character either more or less bold... but it will not work 100% of the time. I'm not sure when this feature will be released, it may be many months.
The way typeface designers create multiple weights of a typeface is to literally just make multiple individual fonts. So, to make a new weight of a font, you may be able to begin with some current font as a starting point, but basically the task is to just make a whole new font where each shape is bigger.
I hope that helps, let me know if you have any other questions!
I’m trying to just make a font bolder than hairline I have a couple of fonts I need to make bolder and I can’t figure it out for the life of me. I know how to do it in fontlab but I’m strapped for cash and I can’t afford to buy it right now
The font weight is just how thick or thin the character shapes are. To increase the font weight, you'll have to go in and edit all the points in a character to make the shapes larger / thicker.
As a side note, the major feature I'm working on right now is a way to do this automatically... both "Auto-bold" and "Auto-italic" functions, where you can then specify how much or to what degree you'd like. There are "automatic" ways to mathematically find out how to move points around to make a character either more or less bold... but it will not work 100% of the time. I'm not sure when this feature will be released, it may be many months.
The way typeface designers create multiple weights of a typeface is to literally just make multiple individual fonts. So, to make a new weight of a font, you may be able to begin with some current font as a starting point, but basically the task is to just make a whole new font where each shape is bigger.
I hope that helps, let me know if you have any other questions!
I’m trying to just make a font bolder than hairline I have a couple of fonts I need to make bolder and I can’t figure it out for the life of me. I know how to do it in fontlab but I’m strapped for cash and I can’t afford to buy it right now