Small letters as capital - with kerning

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Hi, I have created font but just with small letters. I don’t need capital letters but I want if someone type capital on keyboard have also text. Is there any chance to set small letters as capital? Maybe any copping ? But I need also copy kerning.

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Put components of each lowercase letter into the relevant cap slots. Then assign the cap versions to the relevant kerning classes.

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Thanks for help, how to copy these components ?

I need also have solved situation like “Ava”, “aVa”, “avA” etc.

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ok, but it don’t solve the problem with kerning. i copied even all kerning groups, like in small letters but kerning don’t work in capital

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You nee to have class kerning and the same classes in lower and upper case. glyphsapp.com/tutorials/kerning

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Thanks, added the same classes helped. But last time I created second master and problem appeared again. If I delete first or second master - again work.

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What do you mean by that? Can you explain the steps 1, 2, 3…?

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Hi, I am also developing an all-caps font and would like to share the simple equations for the three basic European alphabets. I hope this will save people the trouble of typing the names by hand. :slight_smile:

Latin
A=a B=b C=c D=d E=e F=f G=g H=h I=i J=j K=k L=l M=m N=n O=o P=p Q=q R=r S=s T=t U=u V=v W=w X=x Y=y Z=z

Greek
Alpha=alpha Beta=beta Gamma=gamma Delta=delta Epsilon=epsilon Zeta=zeta Eta=eta Theta=theta Iota=iota Kappa=kappa Lambda=lambda Mu=mu Nu=nu Xi=xi Omicron=omicron Pi=pi Rho=rho Sigma=sigma Tau=tau Upsilon=upsilon Phi=phi Chi=chi Psi=psi Omega=omega

(The lc letter sigma has two forms, use Sigma=sigmafinal if you want to repeat the caps version of the letter. As far as i gather there is no uppercase version of sigmafinal)

Cyrillic
A-cy=a-cy Be-cy=be-cy Ve-cy=ve-cy Ge-cy=ge-cy De-cy=de-cy Ie-cy=ie-cy Io-cy=io-cy Zhe-cy=zhe-cy Ze-cy=ze-cy Ii-cy=ii-cy Iishort-cy=iishort-cy Ka-cy=ka-cy El-cy=el-cy Em-cy=em-cy En-cy=en-cy O-cy=o-cy Pe-cy=pe-cy Er-cy=er-cy Es-cy=es-cy Te-cy=te-cy U-cy=u-cy Ef-cy=ef-cy Ha-cy=ha-cy Che-cy=che-cy Tse-cy=tse-cy Sha-cy=sha-cy Shcha-cy=shcha-cy Ia-cy=ia-cy Softsign-cy=softsign-cy Hardsign-cy=hardsign-cy Yeru-cy=yeru-cy Ereversed-cy=ereversed-cy Iu-cy=iu-cy

Checked&working.

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How to solve kerning in a family of lower-/uppercase and only uppercase?
My font consists of three masters, #1 & 2 are lower-/uppercase and #3 is only uppercase:
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Because the kerning classes affect all three masters I got a problem: the kerning classes for the minuscules from masters 1 & 2 are obviously useless in the all caps master. Is there a smart way to make an “exception kerning class” for the capital minuscules in master three? Or to copy the kerning data from the caps to the minuscules?

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Do not put UC shapes in the LC slots. Rather, in the instances that do not have LC letters, use a Remove Glyphs and a Reencode Parameter.

  • In Remove Glyphs, you can use a subCategory=Lowercase wildcard.
  • In Reencode Glyphs, you add lines containing glyphname=uppercaseunicode,lowercaseunicode, e.g., A=0041,0061 and B=0042,0062 and so on.

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Cool, thank you! I really knew there will be such a clever way … It works well but not with the SC diacriticals. I tried the Remove Glyphs Parameter with subCategory=Lowercase wildcard and also all SC as a simple string (except germandbls and fi fl).

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In the exported font the LC diacritics rest empty. Could you give me another hint please?

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You need to add the glyph names. Select all of them in font view and right click and Copy Glyphs Names > “One per Line”. Then paste that in the custom parameter.

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Yes, now every thing works fine! Thank you both. That is a good day today!

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