Metrics: Spacing Uppercase And Lowercase RSB And LSB From Start To Finish Tutorial, FontLab 8

Font Metrics with Dave Lawrence, California Type Foundry FontLab 8 Tutorial—How to Space Uppercase and Lowercase Letters of a Sans Serif Font, Complete Tutorial Masterclass. In this video you will learn how to space a display font from start to finish. And then use your spacing in your next font, and save time! Sorry about the sound quality in this video!! It wasn't until the end that I realized it was this bad! But the information is still good. 00:00 The Types of Metrics 01:45 Setting Up Your Screen for Spacing 03:00 Starting Spacing with the ‘n’, and Common Values 04:22 Using the Waterfall to Check Spacing 05:18 Spacing the ‘o’ 07:54 Checking Tracking 08:44 Spacing the ‘H’ 10:52 Spacing the ‘O’ 12:00 Fixing the Inner Spacing (Inner Counters) 13:23 Setting Simple Lowercase Letters 20:26 Fixing Incorrect Master Name 22:34 Using the Delta Filter to Fix the ‘u’ Counter 25:18 Spacing the ‘c’ and ‘e’ 27:38 Spacing the ‘a’ 29:20 The Jutting Letters—fjtr 36:37 Spacing the ‘j’ Using the Metrics Line 38:50 Spacing the Diagonal Letters—vwyxk 40:40 Binding Sidebearings 41:28 Another Diagonal Strategy 48:04 Spacing the ‘s’ 51:03 Spacing the ‘z’ 52:14 UPPERCASE LETTERS 52:55 LEFTZ 53:41 BRPD 54:55 Spacing DPB 57:27 Spacing ETFLZ 1:01:35 Spacing MN 1:02:09 Using Non-Spacing Elements 1:03:24 Spacing the C and G 1:05:28 Arch Letters: J and U 1:07:00 VWYA 1:11:26 Spacing the S 1:14:45 Using Test Words 1:17:00 Copying Metrics Into Another Font Great work!