Digitizing sketches. When the handmade sketches on paper are ready to be scanned, take care of digitizing them in a proper way. More specifically, take care while converting your scanned image manually with a Bezier based pen tool. Too many points on a character, or points at the wrong position can have a negative influence at your font.

　　線稿的數(shù)字化。在紙上畫(huà)好線稿之后就可以掃描了，這時(shí)候要開(kāi)始要注意，要用正確的方法將其數(shù)字化。說(shuō)的更明確一點(diǎn)，在你用貝賽線鋼筆工具手工描摹你的線稿的時(shí)候，要留神。一個(gè)字符如果有太多的節(jié)點(diǎn)，或者是節(jié)點(diǎn)放置在不正確的位置上，都會(huì)給你的字體帶來(lái)負(fù)面的影響。

　　Too many points (=nodes) can not only cause technical problems -e.g. the printer can't print the font anymore- but it is also much harder to control the shapes of a character. Controlling a curve between two nodes is much easier than changing a curve with twelve nodes. Of course it's possible, but it will not end up in a fluent form.

　　過(guò)多的節(jié)點(diǎn)不僅僅會(huì)導(dǎo)致技術(shù)上的麻煩，例如打印機(jī)無(wú)法打印輸出，還會(huì)使得字符的外形更加難于控制。在兩個(gè)節(jié)點(diǎn)之間控制一條曲線，要遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)容易過(guò)操縱一條有12個(gè)節(jié)點(diǎn)的曲線。當(dāng)然這并非不可以，但多余的節(jié)點(diǎn)必然會(huì)導(dǎo)致外形的不平滑。

　　Having the nodes at the wrong position can cause technical problems -e.g. it's impossible to hint the font perfectly- but also practically it is recommendable to put nodes at extreme positions at your glyph. For example, digitizing an 'o' would only need 8 nodes. Four at the outer form, four at the counter form. Putting nodes at extreme positions (most top & down, most left & right) means the BCP (Bezier Control Point) will always be totally horizontal or vertical. In that case they are much easier to control. In most software programs you can use shift key to keep the BCP totally horizontal or vertical.

　　節(jié)點(diǎn)放置在錯(cuò)誤的地方也會(huì)導(dǎo)致技術(shù)問(wèn)題，例如無(wú)法實(shí)現(xiàn)字符在屏幕小字號(hào)下的完美顯示（hinting-在計(jì)算機(jī)屏幕上顯示小字號(hào)時(shí)的優(yōu)化顯示技術(shù)，是設(shè)計(jì)者嵌入字體內(nèi)部的提示信息）。建議是，把節(jié)點(diǎn)放置在字符的"頂點(diǎn)"位置。舉例說(shuō)明，用貝賽線繪制一個(gè)“O”要用到8個(gè)節(jié)點(diǎn)。外面4個(gè)，內(nèi)部的字懷4個(gè)。將節(jié)點(diǎn)放置在頂點(diǎn)（最上點(diǎn)、最下點(diǎn)、最左點(diǎn)和最右點(diǎn)），意味著B(niǎo)CP（貝賽線控制點(diǎn)）將全部是水平或者垂直的。這樣它們就非常易于控制。在大多數(shù)的軟件中，你都可以通過(guò)shift鍵來(lái)將BCP（貝賽線控制點(diǎn)）的移動(dòng)限制在水平或垂直方向上。

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　　右：為初學(xué)者熱身

　　下1：將控制點(diǎn)限制在水平或者垂直方向上

　　下2：只在必要的地方使用節(jié)點(diǎn)（能用一個(gè)點(diǎn)完成的，就不要用兩個(gè)點(diǎn)）