How to colourise Accented letters

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In CPAL/‌COLR font accented letters created automatically with diacritical marks and base letters. Is there a method to make them the same color as their base letters without adding color layers?

I’ve tried “Convert Layerfont to CPAL+COLR font” script but I guess it is not used for this scenario.

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Yes, just put the components on the respective iColor letter. Not sure I understand your question though. Can you post a mock-up of what you want to achieve?

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When I export the font letters with diacritics look like this.

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My question was is there a way to export the accented glyphs as coloured as their base glyphs without adding the same color layers to the all of them one by one? I hope this explains well.

Screen Shot 2022-07-09 at 21.44.33
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Which exact version of the app are you running?

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3133

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You need to add the color layers ot the accented letters, too. Duplicate the default layers for each color and the components will match to the color layers.

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Color Palette layers should be added anyway.
Here a script to automate it (if anyone will be looking for it in a future).

font = Glyphs.font
id = font.selectedFontMaster.id
for glyph in font.glyphs:
	layer = glyph.layers[id]
	if layer.components:
		for component in layer.components:
			source = component.component.layers[layer.associatedMasterId].parent
			for sourceLayer in source.layers:
				if sourceLayer.attributes['colorPalette'] or sourceLayer.attributes['colorPalette'] == 0:
					newLayer = GSLayer()
					newLayer.associatedMasterId = id
					newLayer.attributes['colorPalette'] = sourceLayer.attributes['colorPalette']
					colorComponent = GSComponent(source)
					colorComponent.automaticAlignment = False
					colorComponent.x = component.x
					colorComponent.y = component.y
					newLayer.components.append(colorComponent)
					layer.parent.layers.append(newLayer)
					newLayer.syncMetrics()
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