googlefonts / googlefonts/glyphsLib
Tag for “Custom” axis should come from Glyphs
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Description
@schriftgestalt, could Glyphs have a user-editable property for the four-letter tag of custom design axes? Currently, glyphsLib/fontmake uses hardcoded `XXXX` for the “Custom” axis. If Glyphs users could enter a proper four-letter axis tag, glyphsLib can copy this tag into its output designspaces and we’ll have one less quirk in the font production pipeline.

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Research direction
Start by tracing how glyphsLib/fontmake reads custom axes and writes designspaces, then check whether the Glyphs source format exposes a user-provided four-letter tag. Done means a valid tag from Glyphs is copied into the output designspace instead of hardcoded XXXX; the issue names no files or tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100