Additional colors may appear if you used color flags to color-mark the glyph cells.Ī grey cell background means an empty glyph cell. This might be useful when working on a color font with “white” glyphs.
You can change the default white background color in Preferences. By default, the background of the glyph cell may be grey or white, and the caption may be grey or yellow. The glyph cells may have different colors. The date, time when the glyph was edited the last time The script to which the current Unicode index belongs The OpenType class of the glyph: simple, ligature, mark or component the physical location of the glyph in the font The bottom border of the glyph bounding box The Unicode codepoint assigned to the glyph, in hexadecimal form The glyphname (the so-called PostScript name of the glyph) The left popup menu on the Font window Property bar allows you to select the info to show in the cell caption:ĭepending on the selection, a different text string will appear in the caption: Tip: You can change the font used to display the caption, the caption size and position in Preferences > Font Window. Three buttons in the property bar control the visibility of these parts:Įach glyph cell in the Table area has a caption which can be located above or below the cell and shows identification information – either the name of the glyph, its Unicode, index or other character information: The main frame consists of three parts: the History sidebar, the Table area where a single cell represents each glyph and the List sidebar: The Font window consists of the property bar, the footer, and the main frame. To see the file name of the opened font and the full path to it, Cmd-click on the tab title or on the icon preceding the Family name in the Font window Title bar: If the font is not single-master, the Title bar includes the Family name and the current master name. The Title bar of the Font window or tab shows the opened font Family name.
You can do a lot of things using the Font window - from browsing a font to find a desired character, to rearranging and remapping the font. You can open more Font windows with the Window > New Font Window menu command. With default preferences, it opens automatically when you open an existing font for editing, or create a new font. The Font window displays all glyphs of a Font.
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