Marx: easily control glyph marks in RoboFont
This is an experimental set of scripts to allow easy control over glyph marks in RoboFont.
Use hotkey shortcuts to quickly assign a color mark to selected glyphs, to better visualize the working state of a font and more effectively collaborate with others.
Installation
- Download or clone this git repo into your RoboFont scripts folder.
- In RoboFont, open the Scripts menu, and click
Update Menuto make the new scripts appear. - Select glyphs a font, and click (or use a hotkey) to apply marks!
Note: currently, there are folders for notes and markLib in the script menu. Please ignore these. :)
Usage
Mark glyphs
Select one or more glyphs in the main Font view, and cue one of the following scripts:
| State | Color | Shortcut |
|---|---|---|
| Needs Fixing | Red | cmd cntr shft 1 |
| Waiting for Critique | Yellow | cmd cntr shft 2 |
| Experimental | Purple | cmd cntr shft 3 |
“Non-exporting” (e.g. .arrowhead) |
Dark Gray | cmd cntr shft 4 |
| Built from Components | Light Gray | cmd cntr shft 5 |
| Finished / Good | White | cmd cntr shft 0 |
| Iteration Increment | Teal, greener for more iterations | cmd cntr shft = |
| Iteration Decrement | Teal, lighter for fewer iterations | cmd cntr shft - |
I recommend setting up a "Hyper" key, but leaving out the option key, for optimal hotkey usage in RoboFont. The default shortcuts in Marx assume you have done this.
Update RoboFont mark settings
If you haven't already custom-configured your RoboFont mark settings (or if you are okay to override previous customizations), you can use Override & update global RoboFont mark settings to override the mark settings. This will make it easy to mark glyphs with the correct colors & mark names, directly in the RoboFont UI.
Select all glyphs with a particular mark
Sometimes, it's useful to select all glyphs with a certain mark (or marks).
In the main font view, select a glyph (or glyphs) with the mark (or marks) you want to select, then use Select all glyphs with selected marks to select all similarly-marked glyphs.
Example usecase: you have a bunch of glyphs marked in orange, but you want to mark them as components (gray). Select a single orange glyph, then run this script, then run the "Built from components" mark script.
To-do
- Adjust
incrementcolors in all WIP glyphs when one reaches a new maximum value - Make it simpler to set mark while in glyph-edit view
Maybe:
- Make into an extension, with UI for simpler control and configuration