Can Glyphs create a stroke-based variable font? Can variable fonts even be stroke-based?

Glyphs
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I’m almost at my wits end trying to accomplish an exclusively stroke-based font in another editor, and I’m not sure this is even possible and a huge waste of time.

I wanted to create a monoline sans-serif vector-looking font. I have gone through a few iterations of a competitors software and I thought it’s latest one might finally be able to accomplish this. But in short, I’m running into so many roadblocks it seems like I’ll have to manually expand-stroke and flatten each glyph in each master and just sell the font without it being variable the way I thought.

Do I just need to flatten my glyphs regardless of what app that I use? or Can this stroke-based method going from thin to extra bold (and different widths) work well in Glyphs?

Here’s a preview of the S. Imgur: The magic of the Internet

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Fonts with only single-stroke contours are not possible. You can use the Stroke feature in Glyphs and set it to 1 unit.

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Search for “stroke” or “CAD” in the forum. That has been discussed a few times.

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yes, glyphs can do this with the stroke feature, the expanding happens on export. but you will probably eventually want to expand the strokes to make optical corrections

unless you mean a font that is truly a single stroke in which case georg’s advice about cad applies