kadimisetty / colorthing

Glyphs 3 plugin that makes it easier to view and access glyphs by their assigned color labels

ColorThing

A Glyphs 3 plugin that makes it easier to view and access glyphs by their assigned color labels.

Features and Roadmap

• Show all color labels in sidebar.
• Each color label shows the number of assigned glyphs.
• Clicking a color label opens a popup menu listing it's assigned glyphs.
• Opt-clicking a color label opens a new tab pre-filled with it's assigned glyphs.
• Click button to manually refresh color labels.
• Make installation simple, by providing a binary in releases.
• Show preferences in a separate window.
• Allow re-ordering position in sidebar.
• Add short demo video/gif to README.
• List in Glyphs 3's plugin manager.
• Allow swapping currently active glyph with next/previous one assigned to the same color label.
• Make color label cell size configurable..

Credits

Thanks to Rob Cavazos (PSY/OPS Type Foundry etc.) for elucidating a Glyph 3's shortcoming with color label navigation, in particular, that there isn't a quick keyboard shortcut to rapidly swap the currently edited glyph with the next/previous one assigned to the same color label. While this plugin has yet to finish solving that, it alleviates the issue somewhat by providing the ability to track color labels and the number of assigned glyphs from the sidebar, and also making it possible to open a new tab with all glyphs assigned to a color label.

colorthing's Issues

Clicking on blank area of nspopover crashes the entire glyphs app

specifically the area on nspopups with tableviews that have few entries thereby showing a larger empty blank area.