From the course: Glyphs App Essential Training
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Background layers and guides - Glyphs App Tutorial
From the course: Glyphs App Essential Training
Background layers and guides
- [Teacher] Glyphs app has two thoughtful features for keeping your drawings precise and consistent. The first is the background layer. Placing outlines on the background layer is like slipping them under a sheet of tracing paper: they're clear enough to be seen, but faint enough to not interfere with the foreground. The second feature is guidelines. Guidelines can be any angle you want them to be, not just horizontal and vertical, and they can be local to the glyph you're working on or universal, available across every glyph in the font. Let's take a look at backgrounds first. I'll double-click on this cap B to enter the Edit view. There are two commands that are essential for working with backgrounds. The first is Command+J, which sends whatever is selected to the background. So if I hit Command+A to select all, and then Command+J, it doesn't look like anything's happened, but if I move this top path out of the way, you can see that a copy has been sent to the background. The second…
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