Having a skeleton font might be a good reason to get your font materialised by CNC machines and plotters or to develop pounce patterns. LTTR/INK now supports paths of .TTF fonts, eventually, .OPF fonts, so you can preview your single-line fonts.
Single line fonts
The goal of a single line or “open paths fonts” .OPF is to use fonts with CNC machining, engraving, scrapbooking, and many other creative endeavors. A single line font is a typeface that uses one line to define the shape of each letter, or glyph.
Find more info about the “open paths fonts” on this Glyphs forum.
Since the beginning, we have been overseeing the feature, as we have been considering it as an edge-case problem. By default, drawing skeletons in glyph paths is possible, and exporting to single-line font TTF is also possible with some workarounds. However, when it comes to opening a single-line font and applying LTTR/INK strokes to it, the Glyphs suddenly crash.
Summary
When applying LTTR/INK stroke to fonts with quadratic TTF type of curves LTTR/INK caused crashes.
Finally, this release adds the full support for these types of curves to the LTTR/INK Glyphs plugin and, consequently application of the single-line font templates.
Install Update
- Go and update your LTTR/INK version for Glyphs from the Glyphs Plugin Manager. (Recommended)
- Eventually, you can download the new installation file from your account and install it manually.
Credit: Font used in preview image Škoské písmo by Ján Filípek and Martina Rozinajová