Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor
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- Glyphs 4 introduces pen points for variable strokes that adapt smoothly along a path.
- COLRv1 support allows colored shapes, blends, gradients, and live previews.
- Visual kerning groups let you drag and drop glyphs to organize kerning instantly.
- A new sidebar in Edit view provides quick access to tools, glyph filtering, and interpolation inspection.
- Stroke caps offer control over miters and endings for monoline strokes with batch editing.
- The Slanter filter enables easy creation of obliques with adjustable slant, contrast, and weight.
- New head components help build better icons with reusable shapes.
- An all-new scripting window assists in writing Python code with added support.
- Master selector simplifies navigating large font families with grouping and filtering.
- Live text preview allows testing fonts with various alignments, colors, and OpenType features within the app.
- Star nodes provide flawless G2 transitions for smooth curves and squircle shapes.
- Key features include drawing in word context, unified interface, advanced bezier control, and extensive export formats.
- Glyphs 4 supports exporting static and variable OpenType fonts, images, and all color formats.
- The app offers interpolation, smart component reuse, color layers, and batch editing for efficiency.
- Extensibility through hundreds of plug-ins, scripts, automatic OpenType features, and Python API.
- Learning resources include handbooks, tutorials, videos, courses, and user-created books.