Is there a way to change the colours of the background and the font itself in the preview window via python? So that I can have a fancy Preview within Glyphs?
If you want to do it in Python, you can create your own preview window. Take a peek into Toshi’s waterfall plug-in.
There is a user default setting that controls the background of the preview view and panel.
Why do you need to change it from a script?
I don’t know. I want to see the text in different colours. Maybe its a designers spleen (Designermacke). But for me its really useful to see how the type looks other than black and white. I didn’t know you could change the Background color via the settings – thats 50% of my request – where can I change the color of the type?
sadly I’m absolutely not into coding
You can add a Master Color
parameter.
Why not set up an InDesign or Illustrator files with a test text in different color combos? Makes more sense, I guess, especially in combination with the Adobe Fonts folder.
yeah, Im lazy and I want to stay in glyphs. The MasterColor in combination with the Background color change via Settings does it for me.
Would it be hard to give us the option for background- and typecolor-change and a default setting (white & black) somewhere in the right palette? ----> 3.0
Thanks to you both
that would be a perfect project to start with python
yes