jroshell
(John)
September 30, 2020, 2:36am
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Hi, I have a variable font with four axes: vertical width, horizontal width, crossbar height & overall width, all going from 0-100. The light and regular weights function fine, but the heavy weights are all distorted, with the crossbars dropping far below the baseline.
None of the masters or instances have coordinates past 100:
And everything looks fine in the static opentype versions:
Thoughts? I’ll email you guys the glyphs file. Thanks,
John
Glyphs does only properly support 3 axes.
giu
(Guðmundur)
September 30, 2020, 10:36am
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Why is that? Is there any update coming on that soon?
jroshell
(John)
September 30, 2020, 2:49pm
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Good to know, though this was happening before I added the fourth axis.
jroshell
(John)
January 20, 2021, 9:09pm
5
Now that G3 supports four axes, I’m revisiting this modular one…
Got it 99% of the way there, but there’s still a few shapes that bug out in Illustrator:
…despite interpolating properly in Glyphs, and all the start points being aligned:
I’ll email the file. Thanks in advance for any help.
John
Can you try the latest cutting edge version? It works fine for me.
jroshell
(John)
January 25, 2021, 5:13pm
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Unfortunately, no. These shapes still bug out on the fourth axis.
Which program are you testing it in?
jroshell
(John)
February 10, 2021, 5:29pm
9
Georg,
Still no luck getting these shapes to stop freaking out.
In what environment did it work for you?
thanks,
John
What version of Glyphs do you use to export this?
When I export from the latest version (3062) it works fine for me.
jroshell
(John)
February 13, 2021, 9:24pm
11
I updated to 3.0.3 (3062) and now the app crashes upon opening the file. Mac OS 11.1 (M1 chip). I’ll email the error report.
john
This is fixed already. The update is almost out.
jroshell
(John)
February 14, 2021, 11:37pm
13
Ok the latest version does let me open the file again! Phew.
Output is unchanged in Illustrator, though.
Which program are you using to view and test it with?
john
I tested in illustrator and fontgoggles.