I’m in the progress of producing an OpenType-SVG Color font family. The base for multiple colours are previously designed fonts-layers which I would like to combine. I followed this tutorial: Creating an SVG color font | Glyphs . I set colour for every master and created an instance with custom parameter “Colour Layers to SVG” turned on. This instance exports, but the side bearings are all wrong which you can see on a screenshot I attach. I can’t tell if the kerning is ok because of the huge spaces between the letters. I have synced metrics between the masters. I’d be very grateful for any advice. This is perhaps some obvious thing that I missed…
Yes, I’m using both Adobe Fonts folder and installation via Font Book app. Same effect. I test in Illustrator, Photoshop, Pages, TextEdit and even this beta TextPreview tool.
It’s okay when I export the layers separately and then combine them in FontLab, but I don’t want to switch between these two all the time.
I can send you the file via email. I prefer not to post it on a public forum. Could you give me your email or send me a message? My address is [edit: cleartext e-mail address removed]
Do not install in Font Book for testing a font, this may have been a font cache problem. Read this please:
I had a look at the file you sent. The instance named COLOR was set to interpolate, but of course the layers are not compatible for interpolation. As axes coordinates, pick a value of a master you would like to see as fallback if SVG cannot be displayed (e.g. in TextEdit before Mojave). I picked the values of the master called ‘Outline’ in your file, and it exported as expected:
