I’ve already written this in the beta forum. But because it is important for me I will repeat it here as a feature request
In the preview panel (and maybe in the font overview and/or the OpenType Designer too) it would be nice if I could colorize or change the transparency of some glyphs. The reason is that I have a font that “prints” two glyphs over each other (one has width 0). But to inspect if the overlapping is exact and correct I have to see both with different colors or transparency. Here you can see the standard preview:
The same “problem” occurs when I copy the glyphs into each other:
It’s not easy to “see” which contour belongs to which glyph. May like this:
Ulrich
The next upcoming update will contain an option to apply Fill outlines in all areas. At first it will be shown in the Font Overview panel and the Preview panel. We can then further extend it if needed.
I’ve looked into the new feature. Honestly, it isn’t exactly what I wanted/thought would be helpful. “Apply Everywhere” should be accompanied by “Apply Selected”. When “stacking” two glyphs over each other I can assign, e.g. 20% transparency to the “background” glyph and 50% to the foreground glyph. With this option, I can visually clearly see how well they “overlap”:
As you can see above the outline of the glyph “rook” is placed so it overlaps the “cutout” of the field. This is only possible to see exactly if I can add different “transparency” or color to different glyphs.
But maybe it would be better to have a feature – if it is not already there – for defining some kind of “background glyph” which per definitionem is more transparent.
BTW I obviously don’t understand how to copy two glyphs into one slot (combine two glyphs). There’s a command “Add component …” in FontLab which I can use while a glyph is open and add a second glyph on top.
