Tutorials

Version 6.x

• Importing background images
• Tracing background images with the Bezier tool
• Auto-tracing background images
• Merging paths

Version 5.x

• Variable fonts
• Multiple weight export from variable font
• Diacritical mark classes
• Horizontal and vertical guides

Version 4.x

• Importing glyphs created with Illustrator or Inkscape
• Color fonts
• Ligatures
• Spacing Classes
• Counter paths in COLR glyphs
• Stylistic alternates, swashes etc.
• Line spacing
• Descriptions of all tools in the toolbox
• Kerning
• Spacing between words
• Creating counter paths
• Customized character sets in overview
• Exporting TTF, OTF and SVG fonts
• Single Stroke Engraving (CNC) Fonts
• Filtering Out Characters

Version 3.x

• Color fonts with embedded SVG Files

Version 2.x

• Creating a new glyph from an image
• Importing background images
• Name, description and license
• Stroke
• Importing multiple SVG files at the same time
• Convert raster images to vector fonts, (autotrace)
• Update all kerning pairs with a python script

Version 1.x

• Drawing with a grid
• Draw glyphs over background images
• Convert images to vector fonts (autotrace)
• Icon fonts
• Tools
• Spacing classes

Trouble Shooting

• Warnings when installing on Windows
• Fixing Error 0xc0000142
• The window does not appear on Windows
• Open a new window on Mac
• The font is empty! Automatic backups.
• Quotation marks do not show up
• Kerning in MS Word

Please make backups of your fonts often or use git to make sure that your work won't be lost.