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Typeface Design and Font Engineering
  • 🖌️Getting started
  • INTRODUCTION
    • Starting point 📍
    • Content overview
    • Font Repository Structure
  • Process
    • 1. Research
    • 2. Design Drafts
    • 3. Design Concepts
    • 4. Design production
    • 5. Engineering
    • 6. Support
  • Tools
    • Font Production Checklist
    • Softwares
    • Glyphs Scripts and Plugins
  • Ressources
    • Links
  • Styles & components samples
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Glyphs Scripts and Plugins

All the items in this selection are available through the Plugin Manager (Window menu › Plugin Manager)

Scripts

  • Huerta Tipografica Letterspacer: automation for font spacing

  • Hugo Jourdan’s Scripts: many useful scripts (app, exports, etc.)

  • Toshi Omagari’s Scripts: useful scripts (metrics, kerning, etc.)

  • TypeNurse Scripts: a couple of practicle scripts (components & co.)

  • mekkablue Scripts: mast have collection of scripts by Rainer

Plugins

💰 › Paid plugins

  • Green Harmony: harmonize the transition between two curve segments (similar to Speed Punk).

  • Inliner: expand a skeleton path to an inlined stroke.

  • Magic Remover: side palette to delete multiple-master of selected nodes, anchors, components and corner components while keeping the shapes.

  • Noodler: turns monolines of all selected glyphs into noodles with rounded stroke endings.

  • Offset Curve with Angle: a simple curve offset with an angle for the vertical and horizontal offset axes.

  • Presenter Pro 💰: present glyphs and save/export as images in seconds (pdf + png).

  • Red Arrow: display red arrows (duh!) reporting points possibly out of the outline.

  • Show Angled Handles: highlights handles that are not horizontal or vertical, quite-but-not-completely-straight line segments, duplicate path segments, crossed handles, and zero handles. Options in the context menu. Very use for path quality check

  • Show Mark Preview: displays mark-to-base and mark-to-mark attachment with the letters and marks you type in Edit view.

  • Show Smooth Node Angle and Proportion: highlight the nodes that may produce kinks.

  • Show Stem Thickness: shows how thick the stem is at the current mouse position (similar to Show Stems (Light)).

  • Show Stems (Light): shows a measurement line with all distances between the outlines (similar to Show Stem Thickness).

  • Show Stems Pro 💰: Show Stems (Light) on steroïds.

  • Show Tops and Bottoms: displays the bounding box tops and bottoms for each glyph in the Edit view.

  • Speed Punk: visualise curvature comb to improve curve smoothness (similar to Green Harmony)

  • Step and Repeat: palette allowing shift-repeating shapes.

  • Variable Font Preview 3 💰: display axis and sliders to test variability live.

  • KernOn 💰: move it, kern it, pump it, speed it! Technologic. Really helpful to partially (or completelly) automatise the kerning process.

  • HT Letterspacer Manager: extension of HT Letterspacer scripts to manage font rules, per-master exceptions and parameters.

  • HT Letterspacer Areas: visualise the areas HT Letterspacer uses to calculate white space into the glyphs in edit view.

  • Script Deck: Script Deck is a convenient virtual pad controller designed to simplify the process of accessing and launching your favorite scripts.

  • Mark Zones 💰: Creates “zones” or areas in the editor view. Very useful for diacritics and marks alignments.

Last updated 1 year ago