I often find myself spending a good amount of time leafing through all the characters in my typefaces, making sure that I haven’t made a certain part of a letter (mostly straight stems or bars) a couple of units too thin or too thick by accident.
I’ll use the excellent Show Stem Thickness plugin to hover over different parts of the letter and make sure they’re consistent (with some letters optical considerations will obviously make them deviate slightly in actual thickness, but you get the point).
What would be great, however, is if this process was a bit more automated. If I could define the different thicknesses in units in the Dimensions-panel and then Glyphs or a plug-in could quickly highlight each character (or even parts of a character) that doesn’t correspond with these definitions.
What Hugo said. That tool is indispensable and an incredible time saver. Additionally, consider using the Straight Stem Cruncher script from the mekkablue scripts.
One question about Show Stems Pro. It doesn’t seem to highlight all stems. For instance, it highlights the F-stem but not the E-stem. It looks like it only registers stems that are “cut off” at the top or the base. Is there a way to include stems that are not?
Could you show the outlines of your E? You might need to move the measurement line around for the plugin to measure the correct stems (overlaps and such can disturb the correct measuring).
Hi Kasper, like the others recommend, I as the maker of the plugin can also recommend (of course. Anyway, please feel free to @ me here, or ask my directly if you have any questions or issues with it. I just saw this thread here coincidentally
Thank you.