GlyphGauge
A tool to to display and validate parametric measurements in the current glyph window.
RF4 Rewritten using the new RoboFont 4 APIs.
- measurements…
- Open a dialog to select a measurements file and load its data into the UI.
- reload measurements
- Reload the selected measurements file from disk (in case it has changed).
- get default…
- Open a dialog to select the source to check against the current font.
- reload default
- Reload the selected source from disk (in case it has changed).
- font value
- Compare glyph measurements with their font-level value.
- default value
- Compare glyph measurements with their default value.
- font threshold
- Adjust validation threshold for font scale values.
- default threshold
- Adjust validation threshold for default scale values.
- em units
- Show measurements in font units.
- per mille
- Show measurements in per mille values.
- display
- Show/hide visualization in the Glyph View.
Preview
Font values
Default values
Validation details
Color codes
Measurements are displayed using the same colors as Glyph Validator checks, with the following meanings:
| color | meaning |
|---|---|
| blue | equal value |
| green | different but within threshold |
| red | different and beyond threshold |
note
The functionality provided by this tool is now available directly from the data table of the Measurements tool. This tool will be deprecated.