Weird font preview in Finder

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I’ve been having some problems generally today, but this in particular reminds me of something I’ve seen before in another font.

Every type of file has a way it appears as a preview in Finder (images show up as themselves, zip files show up as a piece of paper with a zipper, etc.), and font files show up as these characters set in the selected font:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
1234567890

However, the preview for my font shows:

A1BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
¨bcd¸fgh ̇jklmnopqrstuvwxyz
1234567890

In other words: there’s an extra 1 between the A and the B, the a is replaced with a dieresis, the e is replaced with a cedilla, and everything but the dot of the i is gone.

Can anyone help me figure out what’s going on, and if it’s an issue?

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That must be your .glyphs file. Your .otf or .ttf should be fine.

I believe the preview plugin for .glyphs file has not been updated for Glyphs 2 and its advanced components, which is why the preview is partly glitched.

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Okay, thank you!

4

Hi guys,

Any plans to fix the .glyphs file preview? I’m experiencing this issue with my file.

5

Which issue exactly? Can you post a screenshot?

In general, do not put too much weight on the Quicklook preview. It is cached and therefore not reliable.

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The quicklime plugin is indeed a bit outdated. The next version of glyphs fixes this.

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I understand it’s being cached. It’s just everytime I select the .glyphs file I feel like I’ve created an abomination :laughing: