hi,
sorry if my question looks stupid because I just started using glyphs,
I’m trying to make a monoline font, and i wonder if its possible to use “offset curve” filter as a master to automatically generate different weights of the font?
Not quite sure what you mean with ‘filter as master’, but I am pretty sure you will find the answer in the Monoline tutorial:
https://glyphsapp.com/tutorials/monoline
oh, i just figured out how instances work, i didn’t know when you export the font every instance will be a separate font. thank you
but is there a way to visually see the offset filter for different instances? when i enable “show preview offset” it only shows a default thickness. what im trying to do is using offset filter for different weights, and i need to see the weights to space and kern the font. thats why i mentioned “masters”
Your master is just your monoline. You can see instances below in the Preview area.
It shows the last values used in Filter > Offset Curve.
preview area is blank! doesn’t show anything for me
do you mean preview area of “font info > instances” window?
this preview is empty for me! does not show anything!
You need to pick the instance you want to preview from the little pop up menu.
after several tries I could finally figure out how to enable preview!
but for some reason its showing the preview upside-down! any idea?
See the blue “F” on the bottom, left of the slider: that means you activated the Flip mode. Click it again and your text should be the right way up!
thanks!