Lets say I have a variable font with weight and width axes. Now I want to add a superscript glyph, lets say superscript 2. I’m making it a components from regular two
and scaling it down, but of course now it is too thin. I want to fix this by making it bolder and may be a little wider.
Smart components look like a good fit for this, but I need to duplicate the two
glyph as a smart glyph, and duplicate all masters as layers in each master, which is tedious (I need to do this for tens of glyphs), and losses all the benefits of using components in the first place (as I now need to update all the smart glyphs if the corresponding regular glyphs changed).
So, my question, is there a way to have a smart component using the global font variations not the manually setup smart glyph ones?