Good afternoon,
Group, I have a mission to find a way to create a text font, like ARIAL, but that has a particularity, it must have 1.5 x, the spacing between the letters.
This for Rhino.
I need to find a way to make this faster.
Any help for this need?
There are specific font creation software packages out there, but Rhino can’t really do this.
Or here is a quick and dirty hack of the standard Arial font with the spacing between letters increased by 1.5 x:
But before uploading a modified font, I’d like to confirm that you really meant “increase the spacing between letters by 1.5 x” as here, and not “increase the spacing of the letters by 1.5 x” which is rather different…
Regards
Jeremy
Good morning,
Jeremy,
Thanks for your attention.
The problem is that with the option: Text Object, I can’t edit the result.
I need to edit the result and for that, I think, it should be in the option: Text.
I keep looking…
Hi Leandro,
As indicated in my second post, I can make a font with the extra spacing and you can use that anywhere, but I am not sure if I have interpreted your need correctly.
In case it suits, here’s the one I did, which increases the spacing between the letters by 50%.
ArialSpaced.zip (335.0 KB)
This should only be installed where a licenced copy of the Arial font is installed. It may be shared with colleagues under the same condition. It may not be resold. Note that this was a quick and dirty conversion and some glyphs may not have been converted correctly - there are 4500+ characters so it wasn’t possible to check.
Let me know if you really meant to increase spacing of the chaaracters instead (resulting in a much bigger gap) and I can see if that is possible.
HTH
Jeremy
Jeremy,
The font you sent me ( ArialSpaced ), really increased the gap between the letters.
But I will need at least twice as much as it turned out.
Can you guide me how you changed the font, so I can do and test?
Thank you for your attention.
Hi Leandro,
I used Fontlab, a commercial type editing tool, which has a feature to globally change some of the metrics.
If you can decide upon how much you need the letters spaced out, I can revise the ArialSpaced font to suit.
An easy way to experiment with spacing is to use Word, if you have access to it. Using Arial write some characters in, say, 36pt, copy those to a second line, then select all the second line and use the Font Spacing feature to adjust until you get what you need:
When you are happy with the result, let me have the Word document and I’ll modify the font. If you don’t have Word let me know and we can find another way.
Good Morning,
Your answer and your tip was perfect.
The software I used to edit the font was FontForge, which presented the expected result.
Thank you for your attention
