![]() ![]() This will ensure style linking works even if romans and italics are in different files. Name: Call it Italic if the entire font is italic.In Glyphs 3.1 and later, here is our recommendation: From the same plus menu in the lower left corner, add a Variable Font Setting: And you will find similar logical reasons for other parameters.īut what if we could apply parameters to the whole variable font? Well, we can. ![]() That is why Export Glyphs and Remove Glyphs parameters are ignored in the instances. Makes sense because a glyph cannot (and should not) just disappear or reappear when you move your sliders. For example, of course you cannot have different glyph sets in different instances of the same variable font, duh. OK, so many custom parameters in instances do not work. If you are using the same instances for both static and variable font exports, and for whatever reason, you are using different style names for static and variable styles, you can specifically set the variable style name with this property in the General section. Optional: pick a Variable Style Name to override the (style) name of the instance.Why? Because they jeopardize outline compatibility. If you have any of those in your instance, they will be blissfully ignored by the software. And I hate to break it to you, but most custom parameters do not work in an OTVar instance, especially ones that do shape post-processing, like most filters.Read more about it in the Naming tutorial. Only the Italic instance is the Italic of Regular, and the Bold Italic is the Bold and Italic of Regular. And every italic is the Italic of its upright counterpart, e.g., Semibold Italic is the Italic of Semibold. In the uprights, you leave these usually blank, only the Bold is the Bold of the Regular. ![]() Read more about the distribution of weights in the Multiple Masters, part 3 tutorial.
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