Guides Palette

Guides Palette is a plugin for the Glyphs font editor.

Usage

Guides Palette can list all the global guides with names. Then you can assign them to certain glyphs independently. Guides will display or hide automatically. Helpful for complex design systems such as CJK characters.

QUICK NOTE: Guides with same names will make the plugin unhappy (the behavior will be unpredictable), so please keep the names unique.

Custom parameters

Guides Palette uses the font custom parameter Guides Palette Config to control the appearance of the palette. It can be set with the following format:

{ sortBy = <s>; showAngle = <a>; showCoordinates = <c>; tagPrefix = <px>; }

where

• <s> can be
  • "": None, do not sort (default)
  • "name": sort by name
  • "x"or "y": sort by x or y coordinate
  • "-x" or "-y": sort by x or y coordinate (inverse)
• <a> and <c> can be
  • "1": show (default)
  • "0": not show
• <px> can be
  • "guide_": Default prefix, and "" (None) will be treated as "guide_"
  • or Any other string, eg: "G-" or "参考线："
  • or Emoji, eg: "📐" or "🚸"
  • WARNING: Guides Palette will take over all tags with this prefix (auto rename and clean up). Keep your own prefixs away with this bad boy.

Note:

• Each entry can be omitted
• Each entry should end with a semicolon ; (even for the last one)
• Glyphs will add quotation marks for the values (e.g. "-x"), but it's not mandatary

Example:

{ sortBy = -y; showAngle = 0; }

Remarks

Internally, Guides Palette will add tags like guide_NAME for each glyph with guide NAME. It's not recommended to edit these tags manually or with plugins like GutenTag.

License

Copyright © 2022 3type

Made possible with the GlyphsSDK by Georg Seifert (@schriftgestalt) and Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer (@mekkablue).

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.