Beta 5.2

Fixed a SVG Import bug, and a Pen Tool bug.

Beta 5.1

Bug Fixes, Performance Enhancements, and a brand new Pen Tool!

Beta 5

Major Features

• Import and Export SVG Fonts - You can now open and save SVG Fonts straight from Glyphr Studio. On the roadmap for Beta 6 is importing and exporting Open Type (.otf) files, but SVG Font is just a small step toward our overall goal of importing and exporting all font file types. Luckily there are many free online services that can convert to and from SVG Fonts… so getting the font format you want is just a hop away.
• Kerning - Once you have your character outlines looking good, it’s time to see how they look together. Kerning allows you to adjust the space between two characters, or even two groups of characters with Class Based Kerning. On the roadmap for Beta 6 is a better Test Drive experience. So for now you can start with making characters look good together as words – and soon you’ll be able to make sure your words look good together as paragraphs. Dude, that’s font design.
• Ligatures - Now you can combine a sequence of characters together into one new super-character… with powers greater than the individual characters alone! It could be your classic ft or fi stuff, or maybe even a ¼. Mash glyphs together as much as you'd like!

Other New Features

• Now you can copy and paste all the shapes from one character to another. This can help with designing characters that are similar to each other, or even as a great starting point for designing ligatures!
• Now you can use two screen design mode for all edit pages, including Linked Shapes, Ligatures, and Kerning.
• There is now a new streamlined attributes panel layout.
• We've added a new Guide Panel and Custom Guides to give you fine-grain control over what grid and guides are visible, as well as being able to add and customize your own guidelines.
• In addition to filing GitHub issues, you can now easily vote for new features, or suggest new feature ideas to help decide what the Glyphr Studio team does next.
• As always, we couldn't help sprucing up the UI so now it doesn't feel so awkward at fancy parties.
• Also as always, lots of back-end improvements and bug fixes, including better and more robust SVG handling.

Beta 4

Major Features

• Import SVG Outlines – Now you can use any number of graphic design software to design outlines, like Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape, and import them into Glyphr Studio. If your design environment doesn’t exactly match your font’s metrics, there are easy scaling options that can be adjusted to make sure each character lands in Glyphr Studio with ease.
• Full Unicode Support – where Beta 3 only supported the Basic Latin sect of characters, Beta 4 supports the entirety of the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (that’s over 65,000 characters). Easily add Latin Supplement ranges with a checkbox, or add custom ranges for whatever you need.
• Dual Monitor Mode - Keep the classic compact mode if you’re designing on one screen, or tear out the Edit Canvas to a separate window to take full advantage of your nice big external monitor.

Other New Features

• There are now Keyboard Shortcuts for most of the things you’d expect – and a keyboard tips dialog box to help you learn them.
• Along with the keyboard shortcuts came Nudging, using the arrow keys you can move a shape or point by just a smidge.
• You can now look through the undo-able actions in the History Panel to see just how many times you need to ctrl+z.
• When re-sizing a shape you can now lock the aspect ratio.
• Working with Linked Shapes is easier, now with actions that let you turn a shape into a linked shape, and the reverse, turn a linked shape into a shape.
• You can now bulk transform all the shapes in a character, so moving or resizing shapes as a single unit is a snap.
• Even with a ton of changes under-the-covers, Beta 3 projects can be migrated to Beta 4, just by loading the project normally.
• Plus lots more - I just can’t help tweaking the UI to make it a little prettier, or refactoring code to make it faster and more stable. I’m a hit at parties.

Beta 3.2

• Forgot to expose digits 0-9 in the Character Chooser panel
• Fixed a scrolling event issue between the edit canvas and the attributes panel
• Updated to a more appropriate open source license, GPL 3.0

Beta 3.1 - Dev Edition

Glyphr Studio Beta 3.1

:: Fixed a release-breaking bug

End-user features:

• Enhanced UI Usability and Aesthetics
• Vector glyph editing for font characters
• Linked shapes that can be added to many characters, but edited in a central location
• Test Drive font characters as they are typed
• Save Glyphr project as a text file
• Export Glyphr project to TTX / Fonttools compatible XML file
• Help Docs

Internal updates since Beta 2

• Import / Export JSON save file - constructors take object arguments
• Export XML file in TTX format
• Performance enhancements for finding path bounds
• Converted objects to use Prototype
• Shapes overlap combine or subtract appropriately, paths have directionality
• Cleaned up global variables

Beta 3.1 - Public Release (Minified)

Glyphr Studio Beta 3.1 - Minified version for public release
More information at www.glyphrstudio.com

:: Fixed a release-breaking bug

End-user features:

• Enhanced UI Usability and Aesthetics
• Vector glyph editing for font characters
• Linked shapes that can be added to many characters, but edited in a central location
• Test Drive font characters as they are typed
• Save Glyphr project as a text file
• Export Glyphr project to TTX / Fonttools compatible XML file
• Help Docs

Internal updates since Beta 2:

• Minified into a ~200kb file
• Import / Export JSON save file - constructors take object arguments
• Export XML file in TTX format
• Performance enhancements for finding path bounds
• Converted objects to use Prototype
• Shapes overlap combine or subtract appropriately, paths have directionality
• Cleaned up global variables

Beta 3 - Public Release (Minified)

Glyphr Studio Beta 3 - Minified version for public release
More information at www.glyphrstudio.com

End-user features:

• Enhanced UI Usability and Aesthetics
• Vector glyph editing for font characters
• Linked shapes that can be added to many characters, but edited in a central location
• Test Drive font characters as they are typed
• Save Glyphr project as a text file
• Export Glyphr project to TTX / Fonttools compatible XML file
• Help Docs

Internal updates since Beta 2

• Minified into a ~200kb file
• Import / Export JSON save file - constructors take object arguments
• Export XML file in TTX format
• Performance enhancements for finding path bounds
• Converted objects to use Prototype
• Shapes overlap combine or subtract appropriately, paths have directionality
• Cleaned up global variables

Beta 3 - Dev Edition

Glyphr Studio Beta 3

End-user features:

• Enhanced UI Usability and Aesthetics
• Vector glyph editing for font characters
• Linked shapes that can be added to many characters, but edited in a central location
• Test Drive font characters as they are typed
• Save Glyphr project as a text file
• Export Glyphr project to TTX / Fonttools compatible XML file
• Help Docs

Internal updates since Beta 2

• Import / Export JSON save file - constructors take object arguments
• Export XML file in TTX format
• Performance enhancements for finding path bounds
• Converted objects to use Prototype
• Shapes overlap combine or subtract appropriately, paths have directionality
• Cleaned up global variables