I had hinted main(first) master of multiple masters font.
When I generated instances, hinting transferred to another masters - OK.
Then I exported it to variable font and found that variation axis had stopped working.
If I delete all hints from glyphs, then variation starts working again.
What am I doing wrong?
I have also tried just to set 1 anchor in 1 glyph, but it breaks variation too.
It works fine for me after a small adjustment. The masters need to be ‘in order’. So it need to be Light > Regular > Bold. Then add the Get Hints From Master and Variable Font Origin custom parameter.
And I see a zone for the top of the ‘t’. That is not needed as zones are there to unify feature between different glyphs. And the top of the ‘t’ is only in the ‘t’. Same if the ‘c-tail’ zone.
Hey Georg,
This is true,
‘…zones are there to unify feature between different glyphs.’
And it’s so that there is one set of glyph hints for all the design space.
But also in vars I assume zones are also there to unify the hints on alignments across styles of the design space.
I am wonder, thus, as we are making fonts with variable x-hts, ascenders and other alignments, how is Glyphs getting from the default cvt to the cvar, which records the changes to alignments and other control values over the design space?
Thanks.