Hey,
In the attached image, I intend my final output to look like the right side. I’m wondering if there’s a way to achieve this using Glyphs?
Basically, I need my counter to be a fill as well. Color font? Not sure.
Any suggestions?
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That is tricky. If you need it to be a regular font and the inner shapes to be transparent, then you need to add a lot alternate glyphs that cut out the portion of the following glyph. Or you build a color font with black and white colors for the stroke and the fill. That is usually drawn from left to right so each glyph draw on top of the previous.
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Yeah the only way I can think of is to make cut-out alternates for all cases. The cases could be simplified more easily in Latin though. And for this overlapping, you perhaps don’t need to consider lc-UC cases.
(I’ve written a script for Japanese, which generated 84*84=7056 for hiragana alone. But it was totally doable)
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Ahh, I used the Latin as an example. I intend to do this for Odia which will result in too many alternate glyphs.
I was hoping I could simply have the inner shapes filled.
A color font could be a solution, black background, white filling. Still, the color font formats come with certain disadvantages.
The problem is: Filled by what? White? The background of the text box?
@martinplus @GeorgSeifert I understand what you guys are saying and I think that there really isn’t a straightforward solution to this (as of now).
Here’s the result when it comes to a color font trial (doesn’t exactly work)
@GeorgSeifert I know this may not be a good solution, but at first I’d tried to copy paste the same counter shape on top of an existing counter shape and reverse contour. Ofcourse that didn’t work, I don’t know what made me think that would work 
Thanks for the help!
I made a very simple test font with a field shape and an outline, only one glyph:
You need to replace the blue with a color you like, of cause. The black outline will be drawn in the color the user set for the text.
This works! But I’m a bit confused about how to do this.
Would it be okay for you to send me this test file? Thanks in advance!
To set the default color (the one with the * in my screenshot) you need the latest cutting edge version (activate it in Preferences > Updates).
Okay I will try this.