Typophile

fontlab metrics

sam_j

hi im completely new to fontlab, i have just started using it in a university project. My problem is when I go into the metrics window and start typing, certain letters will 'merge', like if I type an E and then follow with an F and try to adjust kerning, the F just sits on top of the E instead of coming after it. It does this with a few seemingly random letter combinations, can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? thanks

Are the individual character widths set up correctly?

they are all the same width and it should be correct, there's no difference between the overlapping glyphs and the ones that seem to be ok that I know of

What do the boxes at the bottom say?

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