I have a color font being made and have an issue I cannot resolve via the help system.
There are 240 main glyphs thus far. Two more sets of the colored parts for a total of 720 glyphs.
My question is, how does one effectively produce another color variation so I can use stylistic sets for the user to change out to another color set?
I know I can duplicate the parts. But it is slow going now just changing to see only one tagged set, coming back after editing, etc. I cannot imagine having two more complete sets of “parts” to color differently for two SS. And I know I could do separate fonts for the additional colored glyphs. Which then results in two more fonts, and I would prefer to use the SS feature.
Is there a better means of accomplishing this other than go buy a bigger, faster computer?
Sorry I wasn’t clear. I have little issues with non-colored fonts. The largest family of 6 styles I recently finished have 5289 glyphs each and even with all of them open, there is little hesitation in opening/closing, choosing to view only a given tag, etc. The hesitation is there and is greater than either a smaller glyph-count family being open or just one of the large-count fonts being open.
I am using tags, both for the parts and for sets. That part of working is just fine. Tags are great.
The performance issue is only with a colored font I am working on. And the glyph count isn’t great at 240 glyphs*3. It’s just once I add color to the 520 components that the performance is degraded.
Looks like I’ll either just do the 3 separate fonts or slog on with duplicating. Tis a pity those are my choices.