A RoboFont extension for quickly manipulating your glyph’s sidebearings.
Sidebear installs itself in your Inspector, underneath the Glyph Info pane.
Enter Desired SB You may enter numerical values or glyph names. If you place a comma , before or after the glyph name, the opposite SB will be matched (e.g. ,n input on the LSB of glyph u will match the RSB of the n.). Also, like the native Glyph panel, you can input glyph math (e.g. (H + O)/2 + 2)
Swap SBs
Make LSB = RSB
Center glyph Make SBs equal (Set width may change ± 1)
Make RSB = LSB
Contract both SBs equally by that increment.
Expand both SBs equally by that increment.
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Enjoy designing with your friendly Sidebear.
Special thanks to Just van Rossum, Gustavo Ferreira, Frederik Berlaen, Frank Griesshammer, Erik van Blokland, Colin Ford
2.0: 2023.10.23 Support glyph math (e.g. H+10). Sleeker UI, legible in dark mode.
1.1.6: 2023.05.31 Refined Mechanic icon
1.1.5: 2022.03.01 Sidebear keeps your last increment, and shows the right SB info immediately upon open. Attempted updating to Subscriber, but decided unnecessary!
1.1.1: 2020.03.16 Implemented "rounding" for more predictable results, optimized code, removed print statements
1.1.0: 2020.03.03 Support for italic angles. Thanks for the note, Colin Ford!
1.0.5: 2020.01.24
1.0.4: 2019.05.07
1.0.3: 2019.04.09
1: 2019.03.28 Initial release
P.S. If you like the idea behind Sidebear, but want to try a tool with a different approach, check out OkayType’s here.