Adding and Deleting Glyphs • RoboFont

Adding Glyphs

An Add glyphs sheet will shown the place to append glyphs to a font
(Application menu ⇢ Font ⇢ Add Glyphs)

In the text editor users can type glyph names to add the font. It should be a space sperated list of glyph names

Glyph name formatting

<glyphName>

a agrave

Creates a glyph with the given glyph name.
<glyphName>=<baseGlyphName>+<baseGlyphName>…

agrave=a+grave

Creates a glyph with the given glyph name and adds a component referenced to glyph named ‘a’ and ‘grave’ to a glyph named ‘agrave’.

(There are no spaces in the simple glyph math)
<glyphName>=<baseGlyphName>+<baseGlyphName>@<anchorName> …
agrave=a+grave@top

Creates a glyph with the given glyph name and adds a component referenced to a glyph named 'a' and 'grave' to a glyph named 'agrave'

The position 'top' is a reference to an anchor to specify the offset. Both glyph must have an anchor with <anchorName> and <_anchorName>.
<glyphName>|<unicode>

a|0061

Creates a glyph with the givin glyph name and adds unicode value ‘0061’ to glyph named ‘a’.
<glyphName>=<baseGlyphName>+<baseGlyphName>…|<unicode>

agrave=a+grave|00E0

Combine all glyph name formating. Creates a glyph with the givin glyph name and adds a components referenced to glyph named ‘a’ and ‘grave’ to a glyph named ‘agrave’ and adds unicode value ‘00E0’ to glyph named ‘agrave’

(There are no spaces in the simple glyph math)

Enable Add Unicode to generate unicodes for the newly created glyphs. Enable Sort Font to resort the font after glyphs has been added.

Deleting Glyphs

Select a glyph or range of glyphs (shift or option click) in the Font Collection. Press del or backspace to remove glyphs from the font. A warning will be shown because this action is not undoable. To remove both the glyph and template glyph alt + del or alt + backspace.