Suggestion — collapsing layers

Glyphs
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I started to make some variable color initials again recently, and even using fullscreen and the largest possible layer panel, finding the right layer can be quite a pain, especially with many masters.

A lot of this could be solved by giving masters (with layers) the possibility to collapse, for instance using a dropdown. I know it’s possible to view only the color layers of the selected master, but sometimes I would like to pick and choose.

Probably I’m alone in this, but I’d thought: Let’s throw it out here and see what you all think ;).

2

Have you tried filter options in the Layer panel?

3

Certainly! The “show only layers of current masters” is helpful, but the more masters, the less effective it is.

4

But what is the difference between manually closing all master to automatically hiding all sublayers. Or do you mean to hide them altogether?

5

When I manually close the sublayers I have more control over which masters I’m focussing on, and which layers I want to show hide.

And an added bonus for static color (color palette) fonts: I can quickly swap between glyphs which use different colours and keep the color preview. When I do this with the master swap using the F hotkeys, and the colours in the masters differ, I’m automatically sent to the fallback glyph.