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LS Cadencer and LS Cadenculator [Lukas Schneider]

These two tools by Lukas Schneider (LS) are meant for applying auto-spacing to fonts using an underlying grid for calculating the side-bearings. The underlying principle and algorithm originte in Frank E. Blokland's PhD dissertation on the (effects of) systematization, standardization, and unitization in Renaissance font production. The LS Cadencer tools were developed by Lukas Schneider as extensions/plugins for the font editors Robofont and Glyphs.

Schneider: With these tools the principles of spacing, applied in the production of printing types in the sixteenth century, are in a way transferred to our current digital technology of font design.

LS Cadencer is meant for applying auto-spacing to fonts using an underlying grid. This grid is flexible and dependent on the so called stem-interval. The stem-interval is always measured at the key glyph, either the m or the n. The grid can be widened or tightend by the user to influence the spacing in general.

LS Cadenculator, the second tool, reverse engineers in a way what LS Cadencer does. The user can provide a folder of existing font files in .otf or .ufo formats. All side-bearings of a given set of glyphs will be measured in these fonts. The basis of these calculations is again the stem-interval of the m or n glyphs and the grid-steps which can be influence by the user, to either widening or tightening the underlying grid. Discussion at Typedrawers.

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