What does the gray background mean on my glyphs?

Glyphs
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Hi, I’m using Glyphs Mini to create ligatures and I noticed that some of them show up with a gray background in the Fonts view. Is there something wrong with these glyphs?

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That simply means that those glyphs had changes made to them since the last time you saved that file. See the Font View: Viewing Glyphs section of the Glyphs Mini 2.0 Handbook: https://glyphsapp.com/get-started

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Thanks. You’re right, but it appears that the gray background stays until you close and re-open the file. Just saving doesn’t clear it. I guess that’s what threw me off.

Anyway, thanks for the quick reply.

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Are you using macOS Versions instead of regular manual file saving? You can try both via Glyphs > Preferences > User Settings, look for the Versions option at the bottom of the window.

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I’m just using Cmd+S to save. Now that I know what the gray background means, I’m fine with it.

I’m using Glyphs Mini which doesn’t have that option anyway.

Thanks!