This is a collection of scripts designed to streamline workflows in Glyphs App.
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💫 Bracket Layers → Alternate Glyphs (Switching Shapes Method)
- The Bracket Layer Method does not work in Illustrator and other Adobe apps, to make it work, you need to use the Alternate Glyphs Method instead.
- This script automates the creation of suffixed glyphs, their components, custom parameters, and feature code for the Alternate Glyphs method found in the Switching Shapes tutorial: https://glyphsapp.com/learn/switching-shapes
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🖥️ New Tab with Glyphs containing Bracket Layers
- Opens a new tab in Glyphs containing bracket-layered glyphs, followed by glyphs that use these as components.
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📄 Report Glyphs containing Bracket Layers
- Lists glyphs with bracket layers and their affected glyphs (including nested components).
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🔁 Component Swapper (all masters)
- Swaps a component in selected glyphs, works in all masters.
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⛓️💥 Decompose Specific Components (all masters)
- Decomposes only the specified component (and nested components) in all masters.
- 🎁 Trial Font Maker
- This script creates the Trial versions of fonts. It works on a duplicate of the glyphs file, adds prefix to the font family name and instances, it removes all features and keeps only a selected set of glyphs before exporting them.
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📊 Copy Axis Coordinates to Location (Custom Parameter)
- Applies the "Axis Location" custom parameter to each master and export instance.
- Automatically detects variable font exports (skipping them if needed).
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🖥️ Set TTFAutohint Options Automatically
- Adds “TTFAutohint options” parameter for every export, calculating every "Fallback Stem Width" from "Stems".
- 📐 Perpendicular Guides
- Adds perpendicular guides to selected nodes and center guides to selected components.
- 🧨 Delete KernOn / KernOff
- Clears all kerning pairs and resets kerning groups for all masters in Glyphs.
- 🕳️ Delete 'empty' Layers
- Deletes '(empty)' layers that might brake other scripts.
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🎚️ Change Weight (Boldify)
- Changes weight via Offset Curve while keeping bounding box.
- Optionally moderates width growth, sidebearings, anchors, vertical metrics snapping.
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⚖️ Compatibility Check (Node Report)
- Reports node and handle counts per master. Highlights master incompatibilities and node mismatches.
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🔘 Node Duplicator (All Masters)
- Duplicates selected nodes in all masters.
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🔘 Node Duplicator (Current Layer)
- Duplicates selected nodes only in the current layer.
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🔘⭕️ Node Duplicator + 2 Handles (All Masters)
- Duplicates selected nodes and adds overlaped handles without altering the shape in all Masters.
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🔢 Values for Smart Components (all masters)
- Assigns values to smart components in selected glyphs for all axes and masters.
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🧠 Selected to Smart Components (all masters)
- Converts selected glyphs into smart components based on font master axes.
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🤯 Smart to Normal Components (all masters)
- Converts selected smart components back to normal components.
- 🛠️ Transformations Tool (for All Masters)
- Apply transformations (scaling, rotation, slanting, translation) across all masters in a font.
- Download or clone this repository.
- Place the scripts in the Glyphs Scripts folder: -
~/Library/Application Support/Glyphs/Scripts/
- Found a bug? Want to add a new feature?
- Feel free to contribute improvements via Pull Requests.
- Thanks to Peter Nowell for teaching me Python for Glyphs
- In some scripts I used the help of IA, specially for Vanilla stuff (sorry Peter)
Copyright 2025 Fernando Díaz & Reset Type Studio.
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