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)
On macOS the same submenu also toggles the Preview panel (Opt+Cmd+P) and the panels sidebar (Opt+Cmd+S); Font Properties is Opt+Cmd+F.
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.
Outline Fill
Sets how the active glyph is filled in the editor: No Fill, 5%, 10%, 20% or 40% Opacity, or Solid. Apply Everywhere uses the chosen fill in every open glyph editor. Fill Outline (Ctrl+H, on the toolbar) switches the fill on and off. The fill is a display setting only.
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 Selection — zoom so the current selection fills the viewport.
Navigation
•Previous Glyph — open the previous glyph of the font in the editor.
•Next Glyph — open the next glyph.
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. On by default.
•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.
•Grid Options — opens the grid settings.
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.
•Guidelines Settings — opens the guideline editor.
Metrics and Anchors
•Show Metrics — display metrics and reference lines.
•Lock Metrics — prevent metric lines from being moved.
•Metrics Options — chooses which metric lines are shown and how.
•Show Anchors — display anchors on the active glyph. Show and Lock Anchors are remembered between sessions.
•Lock Anchors — prevent anchors from being moved or deleted.
