Lowercase same as Uppercase

Glyphs
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How can I easily copy all my uppercase letters into lowercase (it’s an uppercase only font I’m designing)?

Thanks in advance.

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Do you have the mini or the full version?

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Full version.

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When you paste, hold Cmd-OPT-V, thus paste with the Opt key down.

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There is a quite elegant method for this.

Make a list with all glyphs that you want to copy like this:
A=a B=b C=c … and put in the Font > Generate Glyphs … dialog.

Then you get lowercase glyph with components of the uppercase.

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@Mekkablue, nothing seems to happen when I paste with the option key also.

Do you mean new glyph? It doesn’t’ seem to work there.

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Georg’s solution is better for your situation.

What I meant was:

  1. Go to the Font tab.
  2. Select A-Z.
  3. Copy with Cmd-C.
  4. Select a-z.
  5. Opt-Paste with Cmd-Opt-V.
  6. In the dialog that appears, choose to overwrite the layers.
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Thanks Mekkablue - that worked perfectly.

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shanuea
Let me elaborate on Georg’s suggestion:

  1. Go to the Font tab.
  2. Select a-z.
  3. Delete them by hitting Cmd-Delete. Confirm the dialog.
  4. Choose: Font > Add Glyphs (Cmd-Shift-G)
  5. In the appearing dialog paste this:
    A=a B=b C=c D=d E=e F=f G=g H=h I=i J=j K=k L=l M=m N=n O=o P=p Q=q R=r S=s T=t U=u V=v W=w X=x Y=y Z=z
  6. Confirm by clicking OK.

Now your lowercase letters consist of uppercase component, i.e. if you change the original uppercase letter, the lowercase will change too. I think that’s the better solution for what you want to do.

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What that does is create a set of glyphs under other called “A=a” “B=b” etc etc.

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What version of Glyphs do you have?

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1.3.10 full version

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Can you check for updates? In the App Store 1.3.15 is the most recent, and 1.3.17 for the direct version.

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Thanks - it worked in the latest version.

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Great solution, but now I need to have the same kerning and ligatures, is it possibile?

Thanks!

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Ligatures: same thing, x_x=X_X
Kerning: put them in the same kerning group.

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Perfect, thanks!

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Hi There, I have the MINI version of glyphs… I just need to copy the exact same characters to the lowercase as it’s an uppercase only font…

Can I do this in mini without copying them all individually?

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In Mini, you cannot automate as much. This is how you would do it for A/a:

  1. Go into the empty lowercase a.
  2. Glyph > Add Component > A > Select.
  3. Click in the empty area & set the kerning groups manually.
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How do I reverse this process? I thought I wanted my font to be only uppercase, but now I want to design a lowercase as well. I deleted the lowercase characters and added them again thinking that that would remove the A=a substitution. There is nothing in the /a glyph, but when I type an /a an /A appears instead, even if there are no lowercase glyphs. Where is the code talking about the sub defined in the OTF, I must need to remove the code manually still, but I did not find it in the font info palette.