Background overlap removal switchable?

[FlorianPircher]

You might enjoy the Mask to Master script by @TimAhrens that snaps points to points on the background, including nested points in components. I use it all the time to align outlines to parts of outlines of other glyphs:

Your most valuable Tips & Tricks in Type Design!

Hi Britt, here is a tip that saves me so many hours and frustration, I don’t even want to think about all the time I wasted doing this manually, no knowing there was a better way. When designing a glyph that derives from another glyph, it’s best to use components to build the new glyph. For example, ä (adieresis) can be build from a and dieresiscomb. But what to do if simple stacking does not work? ʑ (zcurl) is like a z, but its outline seamlessly flows into a curl at the end. It’s difficult/im…