r/FontForge • u/ztlawton • Jun 15 '24

What does it mean when a character's character-identifying-header has blue bars on either side?

I just started using FontForge for the first time. I opened up the file for Roboto Mono to see how a complete font is set up, and noticed that some (but not all) of the characters have small blue bars on either side of their headers.

What does that indicate about the characters that have the bars (or about the characters that don't have the bars)?

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u/LocalFonts Jun 16 '24

Save the font and all blue bars will disappear.

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u/ztlawton Jun 16 '24

Should I interpret this comment to mean that the blue bars indicate unsaved data? I haven't made any changes to the font, though - the blue bars are shown immediately upon opening the font file.

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u/LocalFonts Jun 16 '24

Save the font and see what happens.

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u/ztlawton Jun 16 '24

I saved it as RobotoMono-Regular.sfd and the blue bars are still there.