Icolor font layer metrics doesn't work

rolandhuse · June 30, 2023, 1:06pm

Hi guys,

I am experimenting with a color font made out of raster png’s and I was wondering why the metrics doesn’t work I have set values in the Regular layer, and the iColor layer looks fine in Glyphs, but after I export and test the font it looks like fixed width and does not apply my individually set width values. Is there a custom parameter for this i am missing? Thanks so much in advance,

Here I attach screenshots of glyphs and in illustrator.

Thanks so much in advance,
Roland

rolandhuse · June 30, 2023, 1:07pm

and this is how it looks in illustrator when the metrics aren’t working

GeorgSeifert · July 1, 2023, 2:01pm

The spacing is good. The scaling of the image is not.

What is the pixel height and resolution of the image?

rolandhuse · July 2, 2023, 10:29am

Images are 800px high, at iColor 800 they are way too big that’s why I had to change the numbers to 2200… What should I do

Thanks Georg!

GeorgSeifert · July 2, 2023, 11:49am

The pixel (800) and the layer setting in Glyphs need to match. What have you set as the resolution of the images. Try 72 DPI.

rolandhuse · July 3, 2023, 3:16pm

I tried another scan, it’s 500px high here are the settings still off… I wonder what am I not getting right. It’s 72 dpi

GeorgSeifert · July 3, 2023, 3:46pm

Can you send me the image and the .glyphs file?

rolandhuse · July 3, 2023, 4:22pm

Hm… I have made a new glyphs file I wanted to send you and now it works! Strange but I am glad it does. Thanks so much for your help, I appreciate it.