![]() ![]() In that case, you would need to use File > Export (Cmd-E). Glyphs will warn you if saving as UFO is not possible, e.g., when the file in question has more than one master. In order to achieve that, you need to pick Unified Font Object as File Format in the export dialog. ![]() You can also use File > Save As… (Cmd-Shift-S) to save a copy of your frontmost file as a UFO. Saving (Cmd-S) will save directly to the UFO. If you already have a UFO file lying around, you can open it in Glyphs, and stay in UFO mode. Important: Please make sure you update to version 1.4.4, which fixes a bug in the UFO export of multiple masters. Our advise: Testrun your workflow with nice names, and if it does not work, you can still choose to convert the names. Some tools may expect them to be in place. While these names may be hard to memorize, they are more compatible. The option Convert Glyph Names to Production Names will convert the human-readable nice names, such as Zhe-cy, for Cyrillic uppercase Zhe, to their industry-standard counterparts, like uni0416. In the upcoming dialog, you can choose which masters you want to export, and in the following dialog, where you want to save the UFO files. If you want to create a UFO copy of your current font project, pick File > Export > UFO. Now that we are prepared, we can get down and dirty with UFO files! Exporting UFOs glyphs file for a UFO ride, you can keep the settings at their defaults, and take full advantage of automatic alignment and nice names. Of course, if you go the opposite direction, i.e., take your. There, of course, you can also set these options manually. What these two settings do, is set the two corresponding options in File > Font Info > Other Settings, namely Use custom naming (or Don’t use nice names in older versions of Glyphs) and Disable automatic alignment. In that case, selecting the option Disable automatic alignment in imported files is a good idea. In other words, you may want to keep Glyphs from enforcing automatic alignment of composite letters. Secondly, you may want to keep the placement of components in your file. But when you are moving a lot between applications, you will usually want to keep the names as set in the file. In a pure Glyphs workflow, there are certain advantages if you stick to the internal naming scheme. ufo suffix.įirstly, enabling the option Keep glyph names from imported files will prevent Glyphs from converting the names of the glyphs to its own naming scheme. What they have in common is that they are applied to all non-native files opened in Glyphs, e.g. If you want to be prepared for tapping into a UFO workflow, you will find two important options in Glyphs > Preferences > User Settings. This means that if you want to interpolate, you will need to use one UFO file per master. Multiple Master information cannot be stored within a single UFO file. So take extra care and double-check your files where necessary. One thing to keep in mind is that many Glyphs-specific settings, like enabled or disabled automatic alignment of components, or things like the bracket trick, cannot be stored in UFO files. That means that those tools can pick up where the in-app functionality of Glyphs leaves off. But why would you want to do that in the first place? Easy: Typically, UFO tools are highly specialized apps, entirely dedicated to a specific task. This is why Glyphs supports it out of the box. UFO gives you access to a variety of other tools. While you can produce a font or font family in Glyphs alone, the UFO format makes the exchange with other tools possible. While the specs for version 3 have been released, UFO 2 is currently in most widespread use. It was developed by type designers and developers Tal Leming, Just van Rossum, and Erik van Blokland. The Unified Font Object is an XML-based file format for storing font data. Look how well the middle bar behaves, while the outer masters remain the same: Now you have an extra master, just for this glyph, and the e interpolates much better. The name structure is as follows: optionalDescription : You do that by opening the Palette sidebar ( Window > Palette, Cmd-Opt-P), selecting your first master in the Layers palette, and clicking the Copy button.ĭouble click the name of the new layer, and type in a brace layer name. ![]() Similar to the Bracket Trick, we copy one of the master layers, and adjust the name. In Glyphs 2 or later, you can employ something called the ‘Brace Trick’. But that can turn out to be complicated, as we may have to add (and redraw) many masters per glyph. Sure, you could sort of fake it with the Bracket Trick, or an alternative glyph that kicks in in some instances only. Well, except that sometimes you need an extra step in between. For interpolation, two-master setups work surprisingly well. ![]()
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