Designspace

Font axes

Interactive controls for all variation axes in the designspace

sliders : Move the knobs to navigate around the font’s designspace

labels : Slider values indicate the current location at that axis

View options : Click to set various different view options like “Apply cross-axis mapping”

Edit font axes : Opens the font axes page

Reset font axes : Click to restore all axes to their default location

Glyph axes

Interactive controls for all glyph level axes

sliders : Move the knobs to navigate around the glyph level designspace

Edit glyph axes : Open a pop-up window to adjust glyph axes

Reset glyph axes : Click to restore all axes to their default location

Glyph sources

A list of all sources available for the current glyph

Bold : The glyph source highlighted in bold is the default source

Grey : A glyph source in grey is a virtual source. It does not exist, yet. It’s specifed as a global font source, but the glyph does not have a source specified for that paricicual source. You don’t have to create a gylph source for each font source if the design allows it. But if you want to edit it: double-click the name will create a source at this location.

on : Uncheck to remove source from the interpolation for this glyph

bug : Indicates that this source is incompatible for interpolation

bg (background) : Show/hide this source in the background while editing

edit : Click the pencil icon in the table header for multi-source editing

bars : Displays the influence of this source in the current location

plus : Add a new source at a new location for the current glyph

minus : Delete current glyph in the selected source

Source layers

All layers of a selected glyph source

foreground : This is the layer which will be taking for the glyph interpolation

background or any other layer name : All other layers can be seen as background layers. They don’t participate into the actual glyph, so they do not have to be compatible and do not break compatibility. These layers are helpful during the design process. Keep an existing outline, make a copy, modify it and compare it -> then decide which outline you want to foreground as the final outline.