User Guide

Editing Fonts
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H i g h l i ght i ng Gl y p h s
Sometimes you need to visually differentiate groups of glyphs to easily
examine and select them.
FontLab provides two methods of differentiation: marking and definition
of a glyph collection.
Marking Glyphs
With marking you can add color to a glyph cell in the Font window. There
are five predefined colors: red, blue, green, magenta and cyan.
Marking is useful when you want to add structure to a font – for example,
make a visual difference between digits, uppercase and lowercase
characters. If you want to use this information internally (in macros), we
recommend you use glyph classes (described in the “OpenType Fonts”
chapter), but if you only want to have visual differentiation, marking is OK: