Hi!
When I export my font, new nodes appear and change the design very slightly.
I’d like the design to stay the same and keep the number of nodes I’ve set in Glyphs (which is as small as possible).
My export settings are OTF, hinting + overlapping boxes unticked.
Do you have postscript or TrueType outline in your glyphs?
Can you show some path before/after?
Apologies, not sure what postscript or True Type outline stands for.
Here is an example. On the left: Glyphs node placement, on the right: font vectorized in Illustrator.
Example of overlapping forms: (Grey is copy pasted form from Glyphs, Black is vectorized font in Illustrator)
TrueType paths are made with quadratic Bezier curves (the handles between nodes always connect to each other), while Postscript paths are made with cubic Bezier curves (the handles are independent, as in your screenshot).
There’s a lot of discussion about this particular issue in this StackExchange question, but you’ll probably get more practically useful answers here.
This is not a reliable way of determining what nodes are actually present in your exported font. What do you need this for?
My client wants to the share font via Illustrator to avoid giving the font file, contractual matters.
In any case, the difference between the glyph’s drawing and the exported (non-vectorised) font is quite significant in some letters (see the X, the grey is copied from the glyphs, the black is the non-vectorised font in Illustrator).
I want to understand why the drawings are so different to avoid it as much as possible
Can you show the outlines of your X in Glyphs?
Not sure if this is has to do with this particular problem. But your path direction in the X is wrong. It needs to be counter clockwise.
Can you send me the .glyphs file and the exported .otf? (Send it in a private message)
