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