Kerning by dragging glyphs around

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Glyphs.defaults["GSKerningIncrementLow"] = 4 # default is 1
Glyphs.defaults["GSKerningIncrementHigh"] = 50 # default is 10

Would it make sense to make the defaults relative to the upm?

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I also agree that kerning by dragging would enhance the whole process, especially at initial phases.

@jkutilek May I ask which plugin has this feature? I would love to try it.

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No word yet on a ‘drag the glyph to its kerning postion’ plugin/script???
Just bumping this thread

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I quickly wrote a script that at least allows you to kern by dragging a slider. It doesn’t work with exceptions yet, but this is a Glyphs issue, as far as I can tell.

Let me know if something doesn’t work:

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@SCarewe - Thanks Sebastian!!
I will try it on my iMac tomorrow; it doesn’t work on my macbook running an ancient OS. But that was to be expected… :slightly_smiling_face:

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What version of Glyphs are you on? With my Glyphs 2 installation, I found that it breaks at numerous places, starting even with the fact that the endash causes a crash as it’s not part of ASCII.

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@SCarewe I have 3.03 on my macbook - El Capitan 10.11.6
Another script did not work on this one, but it did work on my iMac

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I prefer to type in values in sensible progressions. There is not enough control in dragging glyphs together.

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@Dezcom - I agree if you make text fonts, or fonts with clean lines. When you make display fonts like I do, dragging really makes sense.

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@SCarewe - I tried it on my iMac - version 3.0.4 of Glyphs. It doesn’t work. Broken in 3 places

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That’s odd. Could you open an issue on GitHub or tell me the error codes?

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@SCarewe - i don’t really know how to do that. I am no tech person… :no_mouth:

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@SCarewe - I opened a Github account and I opened an issue… I know zilch about coding, so all of this is new to me… I feel like my grandfather who, years ago, wondered what kind of television we had (which was my brother’s Commodore 64)…

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All is well, worked great! I will fix this issue later today, I assume you just ran the script as-is – type some letters in text mode and put your cursor between the letters, then it should work. I shall update the script layer to not crash when this is not the case, sorry.

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Sorry, it’s been a while. I just rewrote the script from scratch, it should work a lot better now. Didn’t test it a lot, please let me know if there’s any more broken stuff :wink:

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The tool plugin I mentioned is now available in the plugin manager under the name Mouse Kerning and Spacing.

DragToKern-Exception

The description and code is on GitHub:

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@jkutilek :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1:Thank you SOO much!! You’re officially my new hero! Exactly what I was waiting for!

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Thank you! Also thanks to @LucasFonts for getting it published, and @SCarewe and @FlorianPircher for valuable input.

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Great tool! Reporting a bug, just scrolling around with the tool on causes this:

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Thanks, I added a fix for that.