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How to make monospaced fonts [Erwin Denissen]

Erwin Denissen, who wrote the Font Creator Program, explains how to make any PC truetype font into a monospaced font with FCP:

• Open a proportional spaced font in FCP.
• Then select Tools->AutoMetrics... to force the advance width to be the same for all glyphs (except for the second glyph normally called ".null" this one has to be zero).
• Then Format->Naming... to change the identification name and Subfamily to Monospace.
• Then Format->Settings... on the Classification page change the "Proportion" combobox value to Monospaced.
• In Format->Header... make sure the checkbox "Instructions may alter advance width" is not checked.
• Finally in Format->Tables you might have to remove some internal tables like hdmx and ltsh, if the font seems to be changed you could also remove the hinting related data, although this will result in a quality decrease.

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