Manipulating points

michelangelo

Hello guys,
I want to try some point manipulation in DrawBot. I have used bezier paths before but it seems like it is very unclear how to start it all.

In short I have a drawn font and I want to:

Load a letter or a string into Drawbot (or work directly in Glyphs)
Select the specific points I want to manipulate
Move them around while keeping the curve smooth

Here I attach a gif of what I have in mind as the end result:

– Can I label specific points from Glyphs to access them easily later?
– Perhaps there is already something similar asked in the forum but I didn't find it. Can you reference it here?

thank you!

frederik

I dont know Glyhps but you can always do this in RoboFont with point labels!!!

michelangelo

Hi @frederik, thanks, I got RoboFont now and labelled them, but how can I references them.

What method could find the labelled points in an array of points?

If I use:

for points in srcShape.points:
    print(points)

I get all points (x, y), but they have no 'label' attribute.

frederik

you can get point labels in RoboFont with:

glyph = CurrentGlyph()

for contour in glyph:
    for point in contour.points:
        print(point.labels)

michelangelo

Great, that makes sense. Is it also possible in DrawBot directly? I would like to animate it with other letters later.

gferreira

@michelangelo you can use DrawBot inside RoboFont with the DrawBot extension