The View menu groups every display-related toggle and submenu. Items in this menu change what is shown in the glyph editor and the panels around it; they do not modify the underlying glyph data.
Selection Mode
Switches the editor between two selection granularities:
•Contour — selecting picks whole contours, suitable for moving and transforming as a unit.
•Point — selecting picks individual on-curve and off-curve points, suitable for fine-tuning shape.
Toolbars
Show, hide, and lock individual toolbars: Standard, Tools, Drawing, Overview, Glyph, Grid, and Align or Distribute. The submenu also toggles the Status bar and Tab bar. Use Lock Docked Toolbars to prevent accidentally moving them.
Panels
Show, hide, and toggle docked panels:
•Font Properties (Ctrl+F2)
•Masters and Layers (Ctrl+F6)
•Variations (Ctrl+F7)
•Glyph Properties (F4)
•Transform (F6)
•Validation (F7)
•Preview (F8)
•Anchors (Alt+F4)
•Palette (Alt+F2)
Theme
Selects the editor's color theme: Auto follows the operating-system setting, Light and Dark force the theme, and Windows uses the legacy Windows colors. The Theme submenu is Windows-only.
Glyph Display Mode
Controls how color glyphs are displayed in the editor:
•Auto — show the color form when one is available.
•Monochrome — show only the underlying outline.
•Color COLR — show the COLR layered form.
•Color SVG — show the SVG form.
Fill Outline
Toggle (Ctrl+H) — fills the outline of the active glyph instead of drawing only the path. Useful when authoring at small sizes and to preview the rendered shape.
Edit Color Layer
Selects which representation of a color glyph is currently being edited: Monochrome, Color COLR, or Color SVG. Different from Glyph Display Mode above, which only affects display.
Zoom
•Zoom In (Ctrl++) — zoom in by one step.
•Zoom Out (Ctrl+-) — zoom out by one step.
•Zoom Reset (Ctrl+0) — fit the glyph to the editor window.
•Zoom to Selected — zoom so the current selection fills the viewport.
Editor Overlays
•Show Rulers — display rulers along the editor edges.
•Show Scrollbars — display scrollbars along the editor edges.
•Show Connection Lines — draw lines between on-curve points and their off-curve handles.
•Show Contour Direction — show an arrow at each contour's start point indicating direction.
•Show Curvature Comb — show a perpendicular comb visualisation along curves.
Grid and Snap
•Show Grid — display the editor grid.
•Snap to Grid — snap movement to grid intersections.
•Snap to Points — snap movement to other points on the same layer.
Background Layer Visibility
See Background Layer for the three toggles Show Background, Show Background Nodes, and Snap to Background.
Guidelines
•Show Guidelines — display all guidelines.
•Snap to Guidelines — snap movement to guidelines.
•Lock Guidelines — prevent guidelines from being moved or deleted accidentally.
Metrics and Anchors
•Show Metrics — display metrics and reference lines.
•Lock Metrics — prevent metric lines from being moved.
•Show Anchors — display anchors on the active glyph.
•Lock Anchors — prevent anchors from being moved or deleted.
