ConTextEditor is a Robofont extention that display neighbor glyphs in your glyph editor, much like the great RamsayStreet — with aditional flexibility.

Neighbors are not fetched from a preexisting database, instead the focus is set on setting them on the fly.

Multiple neighbors can be displayed at once.

A background / mask neighbors is available, for overlay under the current glyph.

Any open ufo can be used as neighbor provider.

Instances from DesignSpaces open via the great DesignSpaceEditor can used as neighbor provider as well. Interpolation is live and will update with your edits.

A few dynamic tokens are available when setting up neighbors:

• <self> will be replaced by the current glyph name.

  

• <root> will be replaced by the current glyph name, without suffix.

  

• @layerName will fetch said layer from the requested glyph.

<self>.onum will display eight.onum when current glyph is eight

<root> will display A when current glyph is À.smcp

<root>.alt@background will display the background layer from E.alt when current glyph is E.ss02