I have a smart component called _smart.bar with a Width property that controls its width. I’d like to set different Width values for this component depending on the current location in the designspace.
For exemple:
(wght:50) sub A by _smart.bar(Width:100) A;
(wght:120) sub A by _smart.bar(Width:220) A;
(wght:200) sub A by _smart.bar(Width:400) A;A component can’t be variated. Not even scaled. So you need to set up brace layers to do that.
Do you think this would even be possible using brace layers?
To give you more context: I’m trying to build a feature for circled glyphs like :
My current implementation works, but it requires creating tons of additional glyphs—basically duplicating the entire glyphset three times for init, medi, and fina positions. This approach isn’t scalable.
For statics I found a workaround, but for Variable Font it’s much more complicated.
Do you have any ideas ?
How should that work without the init/medi/fina glyphs?
I’ve created the left and right sides of the circle as separate glyphs. I’ve also made multiple _bar glyphs, each with a fixed width (e.g., _bar200, _bar40)
Then I use substitution rules to assemble the complete circled glyph by combining the left side, connecting bars, and right side:
sub A by A _bar200 _bar200 _bar40;
Each static instance has different substitution rules with different bar width combinations
You can have variable substitutions. But that has nothing to do with smart components.