isabella232 / show-rotated

Show Rotated

This is a plugin for the Glyphs font editor.

It superimposes the current glyph as a rotated copy of itself.
If you enter a rotation value in the Transformations Palette, this plugin will resemble that very value. If it is 0 or None, the rotation will be exactly 180°.
This can be helpful when working on symmetric characters (e.g. 0, O, o, S, s, Z, z, X, x, …). The degree of a desired match depends on each design, of course. It is not nessessary to match the drawing with it’s rotated counterpart, but it can indeed help to balance letters in matters of weight distribution and/or optical centering.

Install

1. Download or clone this repository.
2. Either:
   Double click the .glyphsReporter file and confirm the dialogue in Glyphsapp to install.
   Or:
   Copy the .glyphsReporter into your Glyphsapp Plugins folder (eg. /Library/Application\ Support/Glyphs/Plugins). You can use subfolders (e.g. to sort plugins by author) there.
3. Restart Glyphs.

How to use

When ever you need it, toggle Show * Rotated from the view menu.

Examples

Known issues

• None so far

Pull Requests

Feel free to comment or pull requests for any improvements.

License

Copyright 2015 Mark Frömberg @DeutschMark

Made possible with the GlyphsSDK by Georg Seifert (@schriftgestalt) and Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer (@mekkablue).

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

See the License file included in this repository for further details.