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Been looking for a quick and easy introduction to Arabic in Glyphs? This is it.

This multi-part tutorial will get you started with Python. You can read through it all in one morning, have lunch, and write your first scripts in the afternoon of the same day. Have fun!

Plug-ins offer additional features to software applications, usually provided by third parties. You can do it too. Don’t be shy, grab a cup of great coffee, and relax: others have done it before you.

Of course you can type all your feature code yourself. But you don’t have to. Tokens help you automate your feature code in a smart way.

Glyphs offers a smart way to add your own contextual kerning in a separate OpenType feature. Warning: rather advanced level.

TrueType autohinting is an easy and effective way to improve the on-screen legibility of your font on Windows.

Vertical metrics determine the first baseline in a text, the distance between lines of text, and the padding to the following object below the last baseline.

Have you also been trying to fix Windows with your font? Welcome to the club.

TrueType hinting is the holy grail of screen optimisation. It gives you more control over the screen-rendered shape of your glyphs than CFF/PostScript could. While it is also more complex, it is also file-size efficient, and can be done quite quickly once you get the hang of it.

Re-installing a font in Font Book can create font cache troubles. Here is how to avoid it.

It is easy to extend Glyphs: tap into the realm of existing scripts and plug-ins, or even write your own extension. It’s easier than you may think.

Now that you’ve finished the upright of your font, you’re confronted with a severe case of italic angst. An easy way out is an oblique. But in fact, even in a real italic, the caps and small caps will still need to be obliqued. Quickly find out the best method to slant your letterforms.

So, now that we’ve understood the object model, we can go on to extend our Scripts menu with our own scripts.

You have more than one design that you like for the same letter? Put them into a stylistic set!

Grunge fonts, handwriting fonts, dirty letterpress fonts: if your font is complex, this tutorial is for you.

You would like to know how to build letters with accents, umlauts, tildes and what have you? Super easy, I promise.

Sometimes you need an extra master, but just for a glyph, not for the whole font. Here is how you do it in Glyphs 2.

In Glyphs 2, sometimes you will need two different forms of a glyph. The bracket trick will help you alternate glyph shapes. Attention: For Glyphs 3, read Switching Shapes instead.

Intermediate layers help you fine-tune interpolations for individual glyphs.

Variable fonts open a whole new world of possibilities. Creating them is a breeze in Glyphs.

Changing the whitespace enclosed inside a pair of glyphs is called kerning. Here’s how to do it in Glyphs, with lots of good tips to make your task easy.

Font names are important because they determine font menu grouping and ordering, which is crucial for the way your fonts will appear to your users. Naming your font family can be a little tricky, so you will be happy that we shared our best tips in the following tutorial.

Corner components are pretty much like magic for creating serifs. And not only serifs.

In Catalonia, you will sometimes see a dot in mid air between two L’s. Here is why, and how to implement it in your font.

Harmony is a good thing. In type design, it has more than one special meaning.

Functions are an efficient way to expand a script, yet keep your oversight and sanity. In this installment, we will use them for some font evil, har har.

This tutorial is an answer to a question frequently asked by converts: how do you change the order of the glyphs displayed in the Font view? You’ll see, it’s super easy and quick.

You probably know the Round Corners filter. You can apply it to a whole glyph or just a selection. You can even apply it to a range of glyphs at once. Nice. But there’s more to it.

So, you’ve finished all your uppercase glyphs, and you are on a roll? Here’s how the software can generate small caps from your uppercase.

In the first installment, we learned how to output some font and glyph info. Now we want to go a step further and actually manipulate the font. So, make a copy of your favorite font creation and warm up your Python muscles.

Non-spacing combining marks allow the user to put any accent on any character. It is possible through the magic powers of mark attachment, and easy to implement in Glyphs.

Preparing a webfont? Or an icon font that is to be used on the screen? If you can control the pixel size at which it is going to be displayed, this blogpost is for you.

Whenever you want to use custom fonts on the web, you need webfonts. And whenever you make webfonts, file size will be your main concern. Learn how to properly create WOFF and WOFF2 fonts, plus some neat tips as a bonus.

You have seen custom parameters in Font Info. But… what do they do, actually?

You want to manipulate an already existing font? Here are some very handy tips.

So you have made those great designs in Adobe Illustrator and you want to turn them into a font. Find out how to best use them into Glyphs.

So you have prepared vector drawings in Adobe Illustrator, and want to turn them into a font. It is as easy as copy and paste, but there are a handful of details you will want to pay attention to.

In Spanish, an upside-down question mark starts a question, and an inverted exclamation mark is placed at the beginning of a stressed statement.

Dutch speaking people can stress their syllables by adding an acute accent to it. So, ‘ík’ is ‘ik’ with extra emphasis. There is one special case: the ij. Both the i and the j should get an accent. Problem is, there is no j with an acute. Find out an easy solution for it.

In Polish, the c, n, o, s and z can take an acute accent a.k.a. kreska, in both uppercase and lowercase. The Poles draw their acutes a little differently though. Find out all about it in this short tutorial.

You want to make tabular and proportional, old-style and lining figures? You’ll be amazed at how simple it is!

Add numerators, denominators and a fraction slash to your font, and you can type any fraction you want. Neat, isn’t it? Well, you can accomplish this easily with the following step by step tutorial!

When you switch to Glyphs from a different workflow, a lot becomes easier. But it’s important to mention what works differently from what you may be used to. Here are some very handy tips.

Each glyph name has a bulk of info associated with it, from Unicode value to categorization and sorting. All this is stored in the internal glyph database, or shortly: the ‘Glyph Data’.

You would like to add those pretty small-cap figures to your fonts? It is so easy with Glyphs!

Glyphs 3 is here, and Python 2 is on its way out. This tutorial is about getting the code for your scripts and plug-ins to work in both Glyphs 2 and 3, and in both Python 2 and 3. This way, you can ensure a smooth transition for your users.

Cook your glyphs with components. Stir gently and let it boil for a few minutes, serve hot. Enjoy.

Ever wondered why there is no Windows version of Glyphs? This is why.

You can now define number values in font masters. They interpolate and can be used as variables in OpenType feature code.

In macOS, an application can provide some of its functions system-wide, i.e., outside of its own scope. This is called a system service.

Adobe provides a great way to quickly test your fonts. It’s fairly simple, but you need to do it exactly right. This tutorial shows you how.

Need to rename many glyphs? It’s so easy you’ll wonder why you don’t do it all the time.

Turn your icon sets into webfonts, and have faster and better looking webpages!

The Edit view is your main workplace when you design in Glyphs. Here are few handy tricks to get around easily.

The final figure frontier: superscript, subscript and scientific subscript figures. Implement those with this quick step by step tutorial.

The Unified Font Object, a format for storing font data, revolutionized font production. Here is how you can integrate Glyphs into a UFO workflow and profit from features of other apps.

Devanagari, used for languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and many more, is the widest used script in India. While each designer might have their own workflow, this tutorial illustrates our recommended step-by-step process to build a Devanagari font by utilizing all of Glyphs’ cool features!

In an all-cap font, the same capital letter should appear whether the user types the key for the lowercase or the uppercase. Read the following easy step-by-step tutorial to make this happen.

You can customize your sidebar entries in the Font View. As it is very useful for verifying, sorting and filtering your glyph sets, and adding new scripts to Glyphs, it’s definitely worthwhile to learn how to do it. Plus, customizing your sidebar is quick to do!

By popular request, here’s a tutorial on how to insert hints manually. Disclaimer: once again, this is pretty advanced stuff. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Good screen rendering at small sizes needs good hinting. But good hinting is quite a complicated matter. Therefore, you want it to happen as automatically as possible. If you follow a few simple rules, you can reach pretty good results without much work.

So you have written that great plug-in, and it works as expected, and your users are happy. But then the first complaints are in: ‘Que? No español?’ or ‘Qu’est-ce que ça veut dire? Pas de Français?’ or even ‘Jahimmelherrgottkruzifix, gibt’s denn koa Boarisch?’

Your plug-in does not speak German, French and Spanish yet? Well, here is how to fix it. (Warning: advanced stuff in this tutorial.)

You would like to find out how to easily create the perfect monoline font. We share with you our best kept secrets.

Add a slashed zero to your font with this quick Glyphs tip.

So, you created a font in Glyphs Mini and want to display on a web page? It’s as easy as clicking a button.

In an all-cap font, the same capital letter should appear whether the user types the key for the lowercase or the uppercase. Read the following easy step-by-step tutorial to make this happen with Glyphs Mini.

Glyphs Mini’s Font Info section stores important general information about your font such as the font names, the vertical metrics, and the alignment zones. Once you have read the step-by-step description in this tutorial, you will be able to use it efficiently.

Creating a pixel font is such a fun way to get started with type design. Plus, it is really easy once you get the hang of it.

Segment components are a great way to unify recurring shape edges. Think cupped serifs, tapered stems, ornamental sides of Tuscan-style typefaces, and the like.

For your font to work properly, some of your glyphs need proper Unicodes. Here is essentially what you need to know about it as a type designer.

Creating a new Korean font, with such a large character set, can seem like a daunting task—where to begin? This tutorial will give you all the tools to get started with Korean and show you the basics of creating a new Korean font in Glyphs.

You know about serif components, smart components and corner components but you are still craving more components? These tips and tricks will make you happy.

Smart Components are a fantastic way for re-using partial glyph shapes, especially for CJK radicals, but also for Latin letter parts. Be smart, and find out how to do it!

Sometimes, marks can have different positions. This is when you need more than one anchor. Warning: fun type nerdery ahead.

Refine your type design by adding special marks for your narrow letters.

You want to substitute glyphs, but only under certain circumstances? Contextual substitutions are the way to go.

What makes a script font really neat, is when it has a bunch of alternative glyphs for different positions, and the right OpenType features to trigger them. Find out how to do it right in this tutorial.

Determining the sidebearings, i.e. the vital spaces to the right and left sides of your glyphs, is called spacing. Spacing is very important to the overall quality of your design. Here are our best tips to do it successfully in Glyphs.

No modern font is complete without them, and Glyphs helps you build them. In this first installment about OpenType features, we’ll explore the very basics and what Glyphs can automate for you.

You would love to know how to create ligatures? It’s super easy. Try it.

Sometimes, a shape needs to change when it interpolates from light to bold. Glyphs offers two solutions.

There are two kinds of paths. Good ones and bad ones. Here’s how to spot the bad ones and how to correct or avoid the most frequent problems. You’ll be so glad you’ve read this tutorial!

Imagine having letters that react to the diacritic mark on top of them, like a lowercase g that shifts its ear to make space for a circumflex. Neat, right? Simple, too. Here is how you do that.

You are designing a handwritten font with loads of alternates for each letter? This tutorial is for you. I hope you appreciate Swedish pop music.

You finally got your download link for your Glyphs license via email and now you don’t know what to do with it? No worries, we’ve got you.

Microsoft proposed a format for color fonts entirely based on vectors. Glyphs allows you to create and directly export such a color font. Plus, the app takes care of the technical stuff for you.

Ever wondered how those Emoji fonts work on the Mac and the iPhone? The pictures are nothing but colored bitmap images embedded in the font.

Glyphs offers various ways to create an OpenType-SVG font. Read the following tutorial to know almost everything about it.

There are many approaches to finding your letterforms. Many designers like to do a manual sketch first, and then digitize it. Most methods, if not all, have in common that they trace the shapes back to a specific tool. Here are two popular ways to get you started now with sketching your font.

Sometimes, you find yourself in a situation where you need a Glyphs version different from the latest and greatest one. Here’s how to get hold of them.

Correct glyph names are the key to a lot of nifty features in Glyphs. Here’s how to get them right.

There are quite a few ways of adding new glyphs to your font. Here is a pretty handy overview.

In Glyphs 2, if you have two or more axes, the bracket trick is too complex. Attention: For Glyphs 3, read Switching Shapes instead.

Now that you know how to create a Multiple Master setup and keep your outlines compatible, it is time to determine your instances. As it so happens, we have prepared a step-by-step tutorial for you.

With Glyphs, creating layered color fonts is a snap. Find out how.

Thinking about producing a large font family? Then you need to draw and manage more than one master and to understand interpolation.

Need to install Glyphs or Glyphs Mini for many users on a machine, e.g., in a lab? Here is how to do it quickly.

Are you experiencing application crashes? Here is what you can do to help us fix the problem as soon as possible.

Let’s now learn how to make compatible drawings that are ready for interpolation in Glyphs.

Safari can’t reach the server? Site cannot be reached? Glyphs will not update? Window > Plugin Manager stays blank? Here is how to fix it, and make your downloads work again.

SF Symbols are a great way of adding adaptable icons to your Xcode projects. Here is how you make them in Glyphs.

Brushes are a fantastic way to expand mere path segments into full-blown shapes. Let’s draw an arrow.

Sometimes, you try to export a font but instead you get weird error messages. Here is how to fix that.

For Romanian and latin Moldovan, your font needs comma accent letters, in particular S/s and T/t. With this tutorial it is simple to get them right and to implement them.

A pixel font is such a fun and easy way to get started in Glyphs Mini. Plus, all your friends will want to use it!

Turkish and a couple of related languages distinguish between an İ/i with dot and an I/ı without a dot. If you plan to have small caps and ligatures in your font, you should take a few minutes to read this.