Typophile - rounding glyph corners -- but how? - Comments

Xtream Path is an

Mark Simonson — Thu, 8 May 2008 18:56:53 -0700

Xtream Path is an Illustrator plug-in that lets you do practically any kind of round corner thing you want, plus a lot of other neat stuff. It’s not free, but its flexible and easy to use. It’d be great if somebody did something like it for FontLab. I’d buy it.

I found a really cool

russ_mcmullin — Thu, 8 May 2008 18:28:04 -0700

I found a really cool Illustrator script for rounding corners. It rounds selected corners, and leaves anything else untouched. In the short time I’ve been using it, I haven’t seen it distort anything.

that’s beautiful but still

ghurman — Tue, 6 May 2008 04:13:14 -0700

that’s beautiful but still more complicated then it should be. i found i way to round corners with a simple FontLab action, but regretably, the action changes the glyph curves, as well. in Illustrator it’s even more complicated — you have to use the Outline Path function crawling menus and dialogs in multiple steps.

Frederik Berlaen wrote the

mc — Sun, 4 May 2008 13:26:07 -0700

Frederik Berlaen wrote the application Rounding UFO.
—-> http://www.typemytype.com/scripting/roundingufo/

Christian Robertson

Stephen Coles — Sun, 4 May 2008 13:17:22 -0700

Christian Robertson

Christian Roberts wrote a

James Puckett — Sun, 4 May 2008 11:47:06 -0700

Christian Roberts wrote a script to do it.

rounding glyph corners -- but how?

ghurman — Sun, 4 May 2008 11:44:11 -0700

first question:
is there a technique for rounding glyph corners without distorting the rest of the glyph using FontLab or Illustrator?

what i mean by this is how to make round corners on a P, D, B and other glyphs that have both straight lines and curves, but without changing the curves — just the corners.

second question:
how to create a rounded corner from a corner that consists of a straight line and a curve?