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2024-09-18 00:00:00 UTC

Panels, kerning, and path operations

Hello friends! A lot of changes have appeared, slowly leading to a typeface to edit variable fonts.

Kerning


kerning

Improved kerning display in the interface. A panel with a list of kerning pairs has appeared, where you can delete a certain pair — and this is the only function so far. The values began to be displayed in the text block. Let me remind you that kerning is edited using the Option +Control hotkeys and arrows, for a step of ten units, you can hold down Shift. You can disable the kerning display by using Command+Shift+K. You can also try the kerning generator. It only works with Latin letters and fonts with a single wizard. You need to select a few characters and press Command+D.

Panels


panels

Now all the modal windows are panels that can be dragged around the screen much more conveniently. The panels are stretched. They can be opened and closed in the lower left menu or by using keyboard shortcuts. Command(Ctrl)+G is a list of characters, Command(Ctrl)+K is a list of kerning pairs, Command(Ctrl)+P is the preview panel.

The Glyph panel has been updated especially interestingly. Numeric values can be dragged in the manner of a figure.

In one line

— classic operations on contours have been added, but pay close attention to the direction of the contour
— an experimental class filter has appeared in the list of glyphs, where letters, numbers and symbols can be filtered, charsets will appear in the future
— font metrics have started working in the settings (and I did not know that they were broken) and the overshoot visual ruler has been added
— improved the operation of pasting and copying svg from the clipboard