hello, is it possible to create rounded corner filter custom parameters for a variable font? I have different rounded corner values for 3 masters. When I exported the variable font format, the rounded corner didn’t seem to work. Thanks!
Kind of, but it has limitations. I don’t think you can have different values for different masters. To do it with one value, you need to add the filter to a Variable Font Setting in your exports and paste the rounding filter’s custom parameter there, rather than on your normal instances. Have a look at Step 5 here to create the Variable Font Setting: Creating a variable font | Glyphs
There is a lot of potential for compatibility issues in a sufficiently complex font, though. You could possibly achieve this with differences per master by using corner components, but that’s probably more work than rounding your masters destructively, without a filter at export
Yes, you can have different values with number tokens. See the release notes of Glyphs 3.2:
The problem is:
- that the effect, when applied, needs to generate compatible shapes in all masters, so choose your radius wisely, and
- also corners in overlaps get rounded, so be careful with corners close to edges.
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