I’m making a font in which the glyphs are composed of many small, identical circles (dots).
If, rather than render each dot as a fresh element, I were to create one glyph that is a master dot, and link to that for each dot, non-decomposed, (hundreds per character), would there be any pitfalls?
Presumably this would make a smaller font that loads and renders faster.
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It seems to have worked out OK for Petr and Jackson.
Nina’s font has decomposed dots.
I’ll give it a try and see if I run into any problems due to the huge number of dots I’m planning. Disabling subroutines might be useful, if I do.
I don't think disabling the subroutines is even needed since each glyph is based on one central component, making exporting crazily fast.
Interested into the results! The idea sounds exciting!
I do not know how well experienced you are with Glyphs, but in VT 323 I also used smart components.