Version 1.14.0

Glyphr Studio v2 is now the default experience! This update includes lots of small changes to text and URLs to reflect the new structures. V1 stuff has now been moved to a glyphrstudio.com/v1 sub-directory.

V1 is deprecated - all new feature work will happen in v2. Only very major bugs will be fixed for v1.

Version 1.13.21

Bug fixes

• Kern panel title properly displays characters that are kerned but also happen to be XML reserved characters.

Updates

• Added cards to the open project page and the about page with a note and links about the Glyphr Studio transition from v1 to v2. Learn more at the transition plan blog post.

Version 1.13.20

Bug fixes

• Importing compound shapes via SVG now works. Technically this was a bug where new paths started with a relative 'move-to' command ('m'), and correct referencing to the previous path tag or compound path across a path's 'end-path' command ('Z').
• A few updates ago there were improvements made to the default naming of Unicode Ranges and Unicode Characters. This introduced a bug where unused Unicode code points were being shown even when the "Hide unassigned code points" setting was enabled. This is now fixed, unused Unicode code points are now hidden with this setting enabled.

Version 1.13.19

Updates

• Two new Global Actions added, for scaling all glyphs vertically and horizontally.
• Added a toggle checkbox at the bottom of the layers panel, enabling multi-select for layers.
• Reorganized the Project Settings page, and added an option to export decimal values to OTF (By the way, this is very not recommended, but may be useful for some edge cases.)

Bug fixes

• Navigating to different panels (like between layers panel and attributes panel) now maintains the currently selected shapes, as opposed to clearing the selection every time.
• Bezier path points for creating a new Oval shape had one incorrect value.

Version 1.13.18

Updates

• The list of Unicode Ranges now splits large ranges apart into groups of (0x1000). This is for performance reasons... ranges larger than this tend to lead the Glyph Chooser panel to load very slowly. This change will have no effect on previously-saved projects and their ranges. The blocks that were split apart are:
  • CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A (U+3400 to U+4DBF)
  • CJK Unified Ideographs (U+4E00 to U+9FFF)
  • Hangul Syllables (U+AC00 to U+D7AF)
  • Private Use Area (U+E000 to U+F8FF)
• For characters that don't have specified names from Unicode, a better default is now shown, which is a combination of the Unicode code point, plus the name of the Unicode block the character is from.
• The Panel title now handles long character names better - it cuts them off without awkward wrapping, but also shows the whole name as a tooltip when you hover over it with your mouse.

Version 1.13.17

Updates

• Added a new "Check for duplicate kern pairs" functionality - for projects with many kern groups, it can be easy to accidentally specify two values for a single kern pair. Run this test to double-check that isn't the case.
• Clicking the middle mouse wheel now pans the canvas. Also, pressing the space bar immediately pans the canvas (without having to mouse-click as well).
• Deleting a path point now automatically selects the next path point. Previously, after deletion everything was de-selected, which makes it hard to rapidly delete many path points in a row.

Bug Fixes

• For entering characters in a kern pair, handled the case where a code point above 0xFFFF is entered (Code points above the BMP, like emojis, are not able to be worked with in Glyphr Studio v1).
• Fixed bugs in the Edit Canvas when there were no Components, Kern pairs, or Ligatures to work on.

Note

There have been a few reports of memory / crashing issues when many path points are deleted in a row. This is an issue in Chrome and Edge (both Chromium browsers) but it does not seem to affect FireFox. So if you need to delete a ton of path points, try FireFox while we find the root of the problem.

v1.13.16

Updates

• Added note about recommended UPM sizes. From user feedback and testing, UPM sizes besides 1000 and powers of 2 (like 1024 and 2048) seem to cause issues in Windows.
• Updated links to new set of social media outlets (Mastodon, Reddit)

Version 1.13.15

Updates

• 2022 is now 2023!

Bug fixes

• Kern properties panel is now more robust, handles error cases for blank inputs. And doesn't crash!
• Fixed a small edge case bug for how project versions are checked and updated.

Version 1.13.14

Updated Analytics

Version 1.13.13

Small update, preparing for v1 and v2 to live side by side:

• Links to external sites are now all https
• Updated links since subdomains were removed from glyphrstudio.com
• Fixed a small icon bug