Tutorials

The Edit View is where you type text and edit your font. Here are few handy tricks to get around easily.

In a script font, you need a bunch of alternative glyphs for certain positions, and the right OpenType features to trigger them when needed. Read on how to do it.

The final figure frontier: superscript, subscript and scientific subscript figures. Read on how to implement those.

Add numerators, denominators and a fraction slash to your font, and you can type any fraction you want.

In recent years, people have been adding small-cap figures to their fonts. Here’s how to do that in Glyphs.

Quick tip: how to add a slashed zero to your font.

Tabular and proportional, old-style and lining figures. Here’s how to make them.

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 are used to. Here are some handy tips on how to move a type project into a Glyphs workflow.

Glyphs provides a smart way to add your own contextual kerning in a separate OpenType feature lookup. Read here how. Disclaimer: advanced stuff again.

How to do ligatures. It’s easy. Try it.