Changelog
What changed in each version, newest first. Updates within version 1 are included with a licence, and the app checks for them by itself.
1.3 · 1 October 2026
Jump to any glyph
In the Mac editor, the counter between the arrows is now a button. Click it, or press Cmd-G, and a list of all glyphs opens. Drawn glyphs show their drawing, empty ones their character. Type a character and press Return to go straight there.
Corners where a curve meets a line
Glyph corners used to round only where two straight edges met. Where a quarter circle ran into the diagonal of a triangle, the corner stayed sharp. It is now rounded or chamfered like every other corner, in the editor and in the exported font.
Smaller things
The letter laid underneath follows the canvas view, so it matches your drawing in both Shape and Cells. Dark mode has better contrast: black panels get a fine edge and the blue is lighter. A font activated for testing now carries a new version with every change.
1.2.1 · 29 September 2026
Interface improvements.
1.2 · 29 September 2026
Select an area
Drag a rectangle over the grid to duplicate, mirror, copy or paste that part of a letter. Empty cells can be selected too, as a place to paste. On the Mac, Shift-click extends a selection, Option-drag copies it and Cmd-A selects the whole glyph.
A letter underneath
The most asked-for wish: lay another letter of the same font faintly under the one you draw, an o under the e, to see how they relate. It is drawn as a light fill with a dashed outline on top, stays out of the font, and can be hidden without losing the choice.
Spacing in quarter cells
Whole cells were too coarse a step. “All glyphs” and the margins of each glyph now move in quarter cells, and the value can go below zero to tighten a whole font. Under the control string, a line of real words shows the result in text. The glyph row in the spacing view shows each letter’s margins, so they can be compared at a glance.
Clearer names
Testers could not tell what some settings did from their names alone. Specimen is now Preview, Silhouette is now Glyph corners with the corner style chosen first, the grid tool is Stretch grid, and Tracking is “All glyphs” in the spacing view.
Starting a font
A new font starts empty instead of with a starter alphabet, and opens in the overview. The example fonts have their own picker, and colour examples are marked as Pro.
1.1 · 11 September 2026
Spacing, next to kerning
Kerning always had its own editor: pick two glyphs, adjust the gap between them. Spacing had nothing comparable, although it is the more basic work. Narrowing “AV” means those two characters; trimming the right side of the “r” means every “r” in the text. The new view is the twin of the kerning editor. Space first, then kern: whoever starts the other way round fixes case by case what is off systematically.
The glyph editor shows the advance width
A tester read the grid as the width of the letter, and that reading came from this view: you see a grid, you see the glyph inside it, and you conclude one is the width of the other. Two vertical lines now show where the letter actually begins and ends in text.
A proof strip under the drawing
The only context used to be a fixed pair in the inspector, two letters on a small panel. Type designers think in words, so a strip now floats under the canvas and shows the glyph in one.
A line for the descender
x-height and cap height were already drawn against the grid as measurements. How deep the “j” really reaches was not, and the darker band below the baseline does not answer it: that is the descender rows of the grid, a setting that applies to every glyph alike.
A Learn chapter about the grid
Two testers ran aground on the same thing. One had to “lay the grid out too wide to draw w and m” and damaged his spacing doing it; the other asked for guidance on the grid outright. The new chapter sits second, right after the first run-through, and says above all what the grid is not: the width of a letter.
Canonically equal characters get the same glyph
U+0340 is the same grave accent as U+0300, U+2126 the same ohm sign as capital omega, U+212B the same Å as U+00C5. Unicode carries these duplicates so that older encodings survive a round trip, but they turn up in real text all the same. A font that knows only the canonical form shows a box for the rest, and the person who drew it never finds out why. On export, every codepoint whose canonical form is a single other character now gets that character’s glyph.
Promo codes can be redeemed inside the app
App Store Connect hands out promo codes for press, testers and giveaways, and they count for in-app purchases as well. Until now they could only be redeemed in the App Store, outside the app: you were given a code and had to work out for yourself where it belonged.
Smaller things
- A new project shows width, height and descenders before the first stroke, and those three numbers looked like a decision to get right now. They are not, the grid can be changed at any time, and the note saying so now sits above the steppers rather than below them.
- The guides that belonged to one tool no longer help only that tool.
- A shortened copy no longer shortens what it points at.
- The licence email points at a page, not at a file, so a new version never turns it into a dead link.
- Builds pick the right certificate when two are installed.
1.0 · 2 September 2026
The first release.