I’ve been using Fontlab’s TypeTool lately at work. This is really remedial, but could be useful to some beginners, like me.
If you build your glyphs like I did here, you’ll have some overlapping. But beyond the overlapping shapes, sometimes pasting from Illustrator will yield duplicate, overlapping nodes. Yellow Nodes indicate overlapping nodes.
“Merge Contours” will fix this. It’s the little plus shaped icon on the tool bar.
“Merge Contours” also merges the shapes. Now our H is all one piece.
Here’s a case where Merge Contours didn’t behave as expected.
Original Glyph :
After Merge Contours once :
Some of the edges merged, but some didn’t.
Try changing the curves direction, then Merge Contours again.
These buttons alternate the direction of the curves.
Now it’s merged.
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