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Spacing by eye

Spacing by eye - Glyphs App Tutorial

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Spacing by eye

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- [Voiceover] So using metric keys we've settled the left and ride side bearings for 20 of the 53 letters in our set. Another 15 have one of their sides set, so let's look at those first. I'm going to select all of them, these yellow ones, by holding down Command and Shift and clicking. And then I'm going to open a new up Edit window by hitting Command T. And let's just reduce the size of this a little so we can see the letters. Now I'm going to open up the preview pane at the bottom. And I'll increase the size of it a little bit. And then I'm gonna set the blurriness slider about one quarter to the right. And if you want, you can set it to negative. Doing these two things, setting it to negative and blurring it up a little bit will help abstract the spaces between letters and make the spaces a little more apparent. So what we're going to be doing here next is putting a control character around all of the capitals. And that control character will be the H. And we're using H because it…

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