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:

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:

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:

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