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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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

这是一系列 Python 教程的第一篇。无需预备知识。在这第一部分里，我们会在 “宏” 窗口中迈出最初几步。

第一篇中，我们学习了如何输出字体和字符形的一些信息。现在我们想要更进一步，实际地操作字体。所以，给你最喜欢的字体作品留个备份，再热热身准备开始 Python。

所以，既然我们已经理解了对象模型，我们就可以用自己的脚本来扩充“脚本”菜单了。

朝鲜文字符集巨大，创建一套新的朝鲜文字体看上去是一项骇人的任务——从哪下手？本教程将为你提供入门朝鲜文字所需的所有工具，并向你展示在 Glyphs 中创建新的朝鲜文字体的基础。

有很多种途径可以获得你的字母造型。很多设计师喜欢首先徒手绘制草图，然后再数字化。大多数方法（如果不是全部的话），共同点都是通过特定的书写工具来寻找造型的源头。这里有两种通行的方式带你起步来为字体画草图。

Glyphs 3 来了，并且 Python 2 逐渐过时。本教程介绍让你的脚本和插件代码在 Glyphs 2 和 3，以及 Python 2 和 3 中都可工作。这样，你的用户就可以平滑过渡了。

要扩展 Glyphs 很简单：了解现有的脚本和插件，甚至编写自己的扩展。这比你想象的要容易。

TrueType 渲染提示是屏显优化的圣杯。相比 CFF/PostScript，它能让你对字符形的屏幕渲染形状有更多控制。虽然它也会更复杂一些，文件体积上效率也更高，如果你掌握了诀窍，可以相当快速地完成。

设想一下，字母可以对上面的变音符产生反应，比如小写 g 的字耳可以移动，为其上的扬抑符让出位置。很乖是不是？同样也很简单。本文介绍如何做到。

“笔触” 是将路径线段转化为完整形状的绝佳方式。我们来画一个箭头。

线段部件是一种统一复用形状描边的绝佳方式。想象一下杯状衬线、中间减细的字干、托斯卡纳风格的边缘装饰字体，以及类似的东西。

Safari 无法连接到服务器？网站打不开？Glyphs 无法更新？“窗口 > 插件管理器” 始终空白？本文介绍如何修复，让你的下载恢复工作。

竖排量度决定文本首行基线位置、行间距，以及在末行基线的下边距。

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

“SF 符号” 是为你的 Xcode 项目创建响应式图标的绝佳方式。本文介绍如何在 Glyphs 中制作。

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.

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

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.

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.)

你应该已经知道了 “圆角” 滤镜。你可以对整个字符形，或者所仅对选内容应用。你甚至可以一次应用于一系列字符形。很好。不过，还有更多内容。

小字号下良好的屏幕显示效果，有赖于良好的渲染提示。但想要做好渲染提示是一件颇为复杂的事情。因此你会希望这一过程可以尽可能的自动。如果你遵循一些简单的规则，那么不需要做很多工作，也可以获得不错的结果。

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.

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.

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

在设计一款手写字体，每个字母都有大量变体？读一下这篇教程吧。希望你喜欢瑞典流行乐。

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.

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

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.

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

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’.

“函数” 是扩展脚本的一种有效方式，同时能够让你保持管理、精神正常。在这一部分中，我们会用它来做一点对字体而言很邪恶的事情，嘿嘿。

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

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

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.

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

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

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

手写字体最棒的一点在于，它会根据不同的位置出现不同的替换字符形，以及触发这一机制的正确 OpenType 特性。在这篇教程中了解如何实现。

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

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.

现在你已经完成了直立的字体，正面临着严重的意大利体焦虑，一个简单的办法是做个几何斜体。几何倾斜是个简单的办法。但实际上，即便是真正的意大利体，大写字母和小型大写字母仍然需要是几何倾斜的。快速找到倾斜字母造型的简便方法。

想要修改已经存在的字体？这里有一些方便的小技巧。

需要修改一系列字符形的名称？其实是小菜一碟，你会奇怪为什么不这样做。

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

本文意在解决一个经常由 FontLab 转移来的用户所提出的问题：如何改变字体视图中显示的字符形顺序？你会看到，这非常简便快捷。

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.

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

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.

你应该在 “字体信息” 中看过这个内容了。不过……这到底是做什么用的？自定义参数可以做一些漂亮的事情。这里是一篇方便的概览。

为了应对一个流行的请求，本教程关于如何手动插入渲染提示。免责声明：这同样是非常高级的东西。别说我没警告过你！

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

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.

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.

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

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.

有时，你的一个字符形需要两种不同的造型。一个常见的例子是美元符号的竖线：在细字重下，它通常贯穿整个字符形，但是在粗字重下并没有足够的空间可以这样做，所以你需要打断这根线，仅保留上下超出 S 的部分。这里有一个简单的技巧，能够帮你自动完成这些。

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

如果你的多母版字体中有两个或更多的轴，让字符形改变造型要稍微麻烦一点。了解一下当你无法使用方括号技巧时的简单办法。

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

一款现代字体，如果没有这些功能就是不完整的，而 Glyphs 可以帮你创建这些。在这第一篇关于 OpenType 特性的教程中，我们将探索最基础的内容，了解 Glyphs 能够为你实现的自动化功能。

想要仅在特定场合下替换字符形？“上下文替换” 就可以实现这一功能。

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.

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

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!