Glyphs 4 is the leading Mac font editor: draw quickly, manage efficiently, release with confidence.
Glyphs 4 is the leading Mac font editor: draw quickly, manage efficiently, release with confidence.
Glyphs 4 is the leading Mac font editor: draw quickly, manage efficiently, release with confidence.
Glyphs 4 is the leading Mac font editor: draw quickly, manage efficiently, release with confidence.
Glyphs 4 is the leading Mac font editor: draw quickly, manage efficiently, release with confidence.
Testimonials
What’s new in Glyphs 4?
Pen points
Flex your designs with variable strokes.
Turn any path into a living shape. Drop pen points on a segment to command width, height, and angle—all adapting perfectly to the path’s direction emitting smooth transitions to the next node.
Pointed-nib design by Giuseppe Salerno
COLRv1 support
Colors, blends, gradients. You got it.
A piece of colored cake: combine colored shapes with blending modes and opacities and achieve smoother gradients. Customize everything, see it live. Export as images—or COLRv1 fonts.
Visual kerning groups
Stop thinking. Build visually.
Kerning has just become fun. Drag and drop glyphs straight onto the shelf to build your kerning groups. Instantly organize your sets and keep your font’s kerning structured perfectly.
New sidebar
Say goodbye to changing tabs.
Edit view now features a powerful left sidebar that puts your most critical tools in immediate reach. Filter your glyph set, walk through your shapes, inspect your interpolations right away.
Stroke caps
Control stroke miters and endings.
Pick caps and corners for your monoline strokes, batch-edit with ease. Enjoy the many more options at your fingertips.
New Slanter filter
Make it oblique, now without the hassle.
Set slant, adjust contrast, shape and weight corrections, and boom, there is your oblique. Try it in a glyph or two, go on to apply your tweaks on the whole font, done.
New component type
Build better icons with head components.
Want to do more than the default round and cut-off stroke butts? Create a _head glyph, add the anchors (⌘U), and then add the head component to any open stroke ending with the context menu. This way, you can efficiently reuse shapes and build consistent and ultra-editable icon systems.
All-new scripting window
Write code with a little help from your friends.
Navigate and edit all installed Python scripts and plug-ins, launch dedicated debug sessions, complete with breakpoints to pause your code where it cracks. And make Glyphs help you stay style-consistent with built-in helpers.
Browse your font masters
Massive families, zero friction.
Navigating complex font families should not slow you down. Use the new master selector for grouping, filtering and browsing your masters in one place. Instantly find the exact properties you are looking for, switch masters on the fly and take control of your project without losing your focus.
Ordina by Fadhl Haqq
Live text preview
See your fonts in action, no detours.
Put your designs to the test in the revamped text preview window, without leaving the app. Try different alignments, trackings and leadings, flip through your instances, change colors, even test your OpenType features right here.
Star nodes
Take your curves from smooth to perfect.
Shift-click a node to turn it into a star node—and get a flawless G2 transition from curve to curve. Making icons? Use the star node on the transitions from curve to line, and you can achieve the squircle shape for your app symbol.
Upgrade to Glyphs 4 and:
- Edit your glyphs in a word context
- Clean and unified interface: Font and Edit view in a single window
- Intuitive and powerful drawing tools
- Highly customizable workspace
- Extend the app with hundreds of freely available plug-ins and scripts
- Use pen points to create advanced single-stroke designs with flexible strokes
- Manage large icon sets with reusable shapes
- Advanced bézier control: batch-edit curvatures and segment harmonizations, balance handles
- Preview with in the app: interpolation, OT features, even long texts with customizable colors, tracking, line spacing
- Edit kerning groups visually, kern contextually
- Write your own Python code and edit installed scripts and plug-ins
- Export all static and variable OpenType font formats: CFF, CFF2, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2
- Export as images: PNG, SVG, PDF, SFSymbols
- All color formats supported: COLRv0/CPAL, COLRv1, SVG, sbix, layered fonts
Get to know Glyphs
You’ll love handbook and tutorials, as well as videos, courses and books by Glyphs users
Everything I know about Glyphs, I learned reading the Glyphs 4 handbook.
→ And the tutorials.
Kern On
Tim Ahrens
Kern on is a revolutionary kerning assistant that helps you cut down the time you spend kerning to just a few minutes. It takes care of kern groups and your kerning. All it needs is a few kern pairs from you, then the plug-on ‘kerns on for you’.
Speed Punk
Yanone
Speed Punk is a learning tool. It teaches you to better understand the nature of Bézier curves and their curvature, the technical basis of digital type design.
Font Remix Tools
Just Another Foundry
The Font Remix Tools are a set of plug-ins Glyphs. They allow to harmonize glyph shapes, tune the width, automatically generate small caps, generate superior figures and many more.
Lttr/Ink
Martin Cetkovský and Filip Zajac
Use stroke skeletons to speed up your work. LTTR/INK’s mighty nib force lets you draw with skeletons and control the stroke like never before. Forget outline editing, LTTR/INK generates perfectly plotted outlines, even directly to the exported font file.
Show Stem Thickness
Rafal Buchner
The Font Remix Tools are a set of plug-ins Glyphs. They allow to harmonize glyph shapes, tune the width, automatically generate small caps, generate superior figures and many more.
