Overlapping weights

kasparama · October 26, 2020, 9:43am

Hey is there a feature in Glyphs, or potentially an external plugin/tool that lets you overlap a selection (or all) instances of a typeface, somewhat similar to this illustration? https://i.imgur.com/VQPAGEP.png

elena · October 26, 2020, 10:28am

Not sure this is what you are after, but there is a plugin Show Interpolations https://github.com/mekkablue/ShowInterpolations

mekkablue · October 26, 2020, 10:35am

Install the plug-in for free in Window > Plug-in Manager.

kasparama · October 27, 2020, 10:26am

this is great, thank you!

SCarewe · October 27, 2020, 1:51pm

Are you looking for this as a visual aid in Glyphs, or do you want to create images for presentation purposes like this? For the latter, take a look at DrawBot if you haven’t already

mekkablue · October 27, 2020, 3:02pm

Or print the window into a PDF and post process it in a vector editor like AI. The mekkablue script App > Print Window can help.

SCarewe · October 27, 2020, 5:05pm

Or this, if we’re plugging our scripts. It looks much cooler

github.com

eweracs/drawbot-scripts/blob/master/instancelayers.py

from drawBot import *

# EDIT THESE VALUES #####################

string="a"
fontUwant="Your Variable Font"
textsize=3000

framewidth=1920
frameheight=1920

#########################################

axis1=list(listFontVariations(fontUwant).items())[0][0]
textPosX=framewidth/2
textPosY=frameheight/2-textsize/3+240

layers = len(listNamedInstances(fontUwant))
    
# draw background

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