In a separate illustrator document, I created about 60 artboards, each one for each character. On each artboard, I included the cap height, x-height, baseline, and defender. Then I created a gray box for the slug area, meaning how much space is in between characters. After I set up all the artboards, I copied each character that I created in the previous document and paste it on each art board. Copy and pasting, sounds easy enough, but it was tedious work, I had to make sure they were all scaled correctly too.