Free font glyphs update#

You export the fonts just as you would in any other font project. Microsoft color fonts) in the respective tutorial. It rearranges your layer font setup to a CPAL/COLR font setup with a color palette and true color layers. The mekkablue script collection contains a script called Color Fonts > Convert Layerfont to CPAL+COLR. The Harbor Type Scripts contain Make Block Shadow, and Kyle Wayne Benson’s Scripts have multiple scripts for creating all kinds of different shadows. In case you want to create shadows for one or more of your layers, you have a couple of options available to you in Window > Plugin Manager. Also, it is a good idea to take a peek into Window > Plugin Manager, both among the plug-ins and the scripts, and see if you can find something helpful for your project there. Filter > Offset Curve, as well as Round Corners and Hatch Outline (or any combination of them) can help derive new shapes for other layers from an original shape. Of course, you may have other things in mind, not just 3D extrusions. And not only the width changes, but also all kerning changes are kept in sync between all masters. Now, all width changes are kept in sync throughout all masters that have this parameter. Technically, you would not need to add it to the first one, but it doesn’t hurt to add them to the first one too, which may save you some headache just in case you reorder your masters later. In File > Font Info > Masters (Cmd-I), add the custom parameter Link Metrics With First Master to all masters. You could of course always go through all masters with Cmd-1, 2, 3 etc., and do the same metric change everywhere. After all, if a width is changed in one color, all the other color layers must follow too.

Keeping metrics and kerning in syncĪnother big issue: keeping all the widths the same in all masters.

Free font glyphs update#

You can, for instance, choose Glyph > Update Metrics for All Masters (Cmd-Opt-Ctrl-M) and we have already used Paths > Correct Path Direction for All Masters (Cmd-Opt-Shift-R).

Most menu commands work for all layers at once if you hold down the Option key while opening the menus.