yanone / spacebar30daytrial

Space Bar 30-day Trial

Space Bar is a plug-in for the popular type design application Glyphs.app that gives you a lot more insight into the spacing of your font. It is particularly handy for working on a font with multiple masters.

All infos here: https://yanone.de/software/spacebar/

This page hosts the 30-day trial version of the plug-in to be installed via Glyphs’ Plugin Manager. The paid version will later be available via my online shop.

spacebar30daytrial's Issues

Bracket layers

Hey,

I just gave the trial a quick spin and I found that Space Bar does not handle alternative shape layers – neither the traditional setup, nor reverse bracket layers. Considering the possibility of a bracket layer having different/wrong side bearings, it would be great to also see them in the graphic visualisations.

Maybe they can even be shown within the graph of the “normal” layers to make it easier to debug errors.

Preview issue with exception/unlocked kern pairs

I am running into an issue with Space Bar v1.09 where the kerning panel is not, or rather, sometimes displays the values of kern pairs that are exceptions/unlocked. It's a bit difficult to describe exactly what is going on. When there is an exception kern the panel doesn't display the line graph, it is only until I add locked pair with a value that is not zero that the panel displays. If I then unlock this pair, the line graph will remain on.

Screencast to better explain the issue:

spacebar_exception_kerning_issue_1.mov

Just letting you know :)

Great plugin, as always, Jan! Thanks you!

One thing comes to my mind when I see the texts, numbers and graphics jumping while zooming and panning the main view: I recently made a plugin myself where I appended an own view to the main view. This way that problem doesn’t occure anymore. All sleek. I bet you are aware of that anyway, but I think that could be a tiny weeny improvement :)

Anyway, I love it! Just thinking loud.