Glyphs v1.3.13 Mac OS X

Designed exclusively for everyone, from type fiends to logo nerds.



Draw shapes, modify spacing, adjust kerning, compare font weights and glyph variations all in the same view mode. See your letterforms as live text before exporting the font.



Use the layer palette to compare and keep variations of the same glyph’s design.



Glyphs takes care of generating accented glyphs for you, giving you more time to add that finishing touch.



Glyphs automatically generates all the basic OpenType features you rely on. Most of the Features can be previewed in the edit view.



Ever forget how wide the stems of the “n” or “H” in your typeface are? Now you can take notes alongside your design right in the Dimension Panel. Glyphs makes it easier to keep your typeface consistent.



Export your fonts into OpenType (.otf) or Unified Font Objects (.ufo) and Photofont (phf).


Let loose, without the constraints of clumsier programs.



Keep your outline’s overlapping paths and let Glyphs do your work removing them when the OpenType font gets generated.



Glyphs has the most advanced node features of any design application, giving you unmatched creative freedom.



The transform box is your best friend. It gives you total control of node, off-curve node, and guide positioning.



Harness the full flexibility of multiple masters.


You can set up a font with up to 4 masters. This can be three masters in a row (like Light, SemiBold, and Black), in a “triangle” (Light, Bold, and Condensed) or in a spare (Light, Bold, LightCondensed and BoldCondensed).


Masters are not bound to each other. Feel free to make changes to an outline of one master, even delete it, without altering the other masters.


Easily preview all of your masters side-by-side in text view with the click of a button. But if you’re really in a hurry, just press CMD + OPT + the number of your master to call up the font.


Saving you from the more mindless side of font production.




Glyphs uses nice, readable names so you never need to remember what uni0410 is again. It just reads A-cy.


To draw and kern Arabic or Hebrew fonts, take advantage of a robust RTL layout that includes basic shaping. Mark and mark-to-mark features are automatically generated from anchors, too.


No need to deal with encodings. Glyphs lets you select the language you want your font to support and instantly generates the missing glyphs.




The metrics of component glyphs are linked to base glyphs, giving you spacing that’s always correct. Accents are also automatically placed according to their anchor positions.


With a slanted bounding box, the work of spacing italic faces is finally simplified.


The Measurement Tool gives you total access to your outline’s most important information: the distance between nodes and the arrangement of outlines in multiple master fonts.




Extend Glyphs’ core features by building your own tools, filters, or panel and file format plugins using Python or Cocoa. (Glyphs also recognizes custom plugin file formats.)

Python-friendly
Want to automate the routine processes of font production? Just write your own Python script or tap into the wider community of scripts that already exist.