View and edit existing fonts and create accented glyph collections. Save custom letterforms as Photofonts or Unified Font Objects. Modify the spacing and kerning of glyphs, preview the result, export fonts as OTF, etc. The tool supports Python scripts and metrics control.
Glyphs - a simple name for an easy-to-use, yet feature-rich application. Glyphs, as its name suggest is a font editor, which can be used with confidence by any user type.
Glyphs allows you to edit and create fonts, according to your imagination and time, because these two and some talent are the only requirements for obtaining beautifully designed components. Within this tool's interface, you can draw shapes, edit spaces, modify kerning, compare font weights and many different other.
Even more, Glyphs offers multi-language support, so you can create typefaces for Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese and Devanagari languages plus a few others. Glyphs allows you to export your work into OpenType (.otf), Unified Font Objects (.ufo) and Photofont (phf) formats, so you can use the fonts with any application that accepts such extensions.
The intuitive-to-use interface, the multiple view possibilities and the wide range of allowed transformations are just three of the application's main advantages.
All in all, Glyphs is a convenient and reliable solution for testing your imagination and your design skills by editing and creating fonts.
v1.3 [May 11, 2012]
- Changed: The key combination for the interpolate nudge function has changed. Now you always have to hit Ctrl+Opt. The Ctrl key alone disables the snapping.
- Several big performance improvements (im/export, select glyph panel...).
- Support for importing .ttc files.
- The grid can be subdivided now. (font info > Other settings)
- Cleand up the supported cutom paramters. Only supported values are suggesten in the pulldown
- Support for vertical layout. This is not finished yet and has some problems (e.g. cursor movements). Support for vertical kerning and metrics.
- Improved scrolling in Font view.
- Improve automatic anchor placement for italic fonts.
- Components can be locked now to prevent accidental repositioning (from context menu).
- Improved the handling of CJK fonts. Still a lot of work to do.
- Improve error erporting on otf export
- Reduced rounding errors in exported fonts.
- Updated the QuickLook plugin.
- Improved the importing of fonts. More metadata is read.
- import kerning classes from another .glyphs file.
- the "smallCapHeight" custom parameter (Master) will be used to generate alignment zones and as xHeight for small cap glyphs.
- update localisations
Full list of changes:
http://glyphsapp.com/updates/changelog.php
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