https://github.com/jenskutilek/mastergrid

Per-master grids for Glyphs.app
https://github.com/jenskutilek/mastergrid

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Per-master grids for Glyphs.app

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jenskutilek/mastergrid
• Owner: jenskutilek
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2017-12-04T12:09:18.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-03T10:38:16.000Z (8 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-03T21:16:34.422Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: glyphs, glyphsapp, glyphsapp-plugins, glyphsapp-scripts
• Language: Python
• Size: 142 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE

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# MasterGrid

Per-master grids for Glyphs.app

MasterGrid lets you set a grid that is not applied globally like the grid you can set in the font info, but per master.



Activate the grid display via the menu ‘View > Show Master Grid’. The grid is just a visual guide, it is not used for snapping.

Set or delete the grid for the current master via the menu ‘Edit > Master Grid…’ (you need to have the `vanilla` module installed to be able to display the dialog).

If you don’t want to install `vanilla`, you can still set the grid via the Macro Panel:

```python

Font.masters[0].userData["de.kutilek.MasterGrid.value"] = [100, 100] # x, y

Font.masters[0].userData["de.kutilek.MasterGrid.type"]  = "units"    # absolute font units

```

You can also use relative subdivisions of the units per em value:

```python

Font.masters[1].userData["de.kutilek.MasterGrid.value"] = [10, 10] # x, y

Font.masters[1].userData["de.kutilek.MasterGrid.type"]  = "div"    # subdivision of the em value

```

The resulting grid of the two examples will be the same for a font with 1000 units per em.

To customize the grid color, set it as an RGBA tuple by running this in the Macro Panel:

```python

Glyphs.defaults["de.kutilek.MasterGrid.color"] = (1, 0, 0, 0.2)

```