New in Version 0.5.2
- Spanish localization
- Kerning Panel. (Window > Show Kerning)
- Panels are reopened after restart of Glyphs
- Beginning of scripting wrapper. Properties of the objects can be accessed more easily. (e.g. Font.glyphs["A"])
- Performance improvements
New in Version 0.5.1
- In Right To Left Mode, it automatically displays the init, medi and fina forms.
- improved right clicking in font view
- French localization. Thanks to Alexandre Dumas de Rauly, dinobib.com
- fixed some crashes
New in Version 0.5
- Added German localization. Others are coming.
- Added help files. Goto Help > Glyphs Help.
- Added QuickLock Plugin. It will install automatically.
- Fixed the crash on closing a document.
New in Version 0.4.8
- Performance improvements on opening and saving files.
- Improved glyph information of arabic glyphs
- Click and hold the primitives toolbar icon to change the drawing mode (from rect to circle)
- fixed a crash
New in Version 0.4.7
- New Tab in Font Info: ability to set designer, version and so on.
- Additions to the Glyph Info DB, Mostly concerning arabic. This includes anchors for mark positioning.
- Some bug fixes on editing paths
New in Version 0.4.6
- fixed a crash when opening a new glyph edit view.
New in Version 0.4.5
- Now you can interpolate with three masters. They ned to lay on one axis but you can have e.g. Light, Bold and Black.
- change from 0.4.4 I missed to mention: type a letter in the font view and the first glyph beginning with this letter will be selected. You may the beginning of the glyph name (aec for aecyrillic).
- If you hit enter to end the editing of a value in the inspector view it gives back to focus.
- Updated the Hebrew glyph infos
New in Version 0.4.4
- Initial support for right-to-left script support. No embedded LTR-RTL for now. You can switch with the button at the lower left corner. I think the kerning will not work correctly.
- Fix: It is now possible to add a master to a font. This was broken on Leopard.
- Fix: some smaller issues with copy past from Illustrator.
New in Version 0.4.3
- Sorry for the inconvenience with the timeout. This is supposed to be reminder only to update
- Add extreme points. Hold Shift, while clicking on a path. The Node will be inserted at the nearest extreme point. Or use the menu > Layer > Add Extremes
- Autohint at Export (I use autohint from Adobe FDK). You need to set some stem values
- Initial support or Hebrew. There is still no Right To Left support
- Type to select in the font view. Hit enter to edit the glyph name. And Command+arrowDown to open the selection in editMode
- Add punctuation glyphs just like the for the languages.
Please note: If the update crashes, please download this version here: schriftgestaltung.de/updates/Glyphs0.4.3.zip
New in Version 0.4.2
- improves fontinfo export for otf export
- fixed huge memory leak in remove overlap code
- fixed some smaller issues reported by Tim
New in Version 0.4.1
- fixed a bug on kerning export
- fixed some layout problems with italics
New in Version 0.4
- Select Sample Text: hit cmd+alt+f ore Menu > Edit > Select Sample Text ... (edit it in the preferences)
- in Text Mode, the basic Metrics (RSB, Width, LSB) is drawn below each letter.
- OTF export. There is a option to change the glyph names to Acrobat friendly ones
- Two new palettes: Layer and Dimensions.
- The Layer panel is meant to access multiple Versions of a Layer. This is just the initial implementation an will be improved in the the future
- The Dimensions panel is helpful to note some dimensions of some key glyphs:

- Copy Paste Glyphs between Fonts. Glyphs are never overridden, if there is a conflict, a sequential number (.001) will be added to the glyph name
- Copy glyphs text: If you copy selected glyphs in the Fonts View, you can past them in the edit view any text editor (or Indesign) to build a test document.
- Initial arabic encoding support in the internal Glyph info DB. This is not complete. Anchor and decomposition information is very limited. There is no support for right to left text in the edit view.
- Select two points and make a new hint (with context menu) and the hint will be linked to this two points
- The Measurement tool draw a line from each start point of each Master. This should help a bit to fix incompatible masters.
- Fix the kerning. Now you can set Classes and exceptions correctly.
- Performance improvements in the Font view, on loading and saving font and several other places.
- ToolTips in the Font view show the complete glyph name.
- Change: If you try to select an anchor very near to a node, the anchor is selected instead of the node. If you need to select the node, drag a selection rect.
- Glyphs with zero width show the horizontal metrics
- Some mouse over cursors for the select and draw tool
- Automatic Remove Overlap on export to OpenType
- Hints. Add on from the context menu
- Guidelines. Drag them around with the small knob and change the angle with the inspector.
- Empty glyphs get a preview glyph in the background
- Right click the language groups to get the generate glyphs dialog. Select all missing glyphs you want to generate
- Autosave the last open tabs
- Big changes and improvements all over the place
- lots of bug fixes and crashes, but introduced probably several new ;)
New in Version 0.3.13
- Autosave. The document is saved every 10 s and reopened automatically after a crash.
- Read .ttf files. All quadratic curves are converted to cubic curves.
New in Version 0.3.12
- Fixed lots of small issues. Mainly concerning loading, saving and exporting.
New in Version 0.3.11
- Automatic remove overlap on OTF export.
- Use the Remove Overlap code back (was introduced in 0.3.7). The quality of the first algorithm is indeed better. The problems with big glyphs remain
- Handling of Standard Stems
- Lots of small fixes: Macro Panel, moving outlines, support and fix for some properties in .ufo files.
New in Version 0.3.10
- Script menu: All (python)scripts you put inside Application support/Glyphs/Scripts are shown in the scripts menu. Subfolders are supported.
- Possibility to combine categories in the sidebar of the font tab.(thanks matteo for the advice)
- Font created with Glyphs and saved as UFO do not crash Area51 any more (thanks Arjen for reporting)
- smaller fixes
New in Version 0.3.9
- New Tool: Primitives. You can draw rectangles and circles. Change it with the context menu (in the draw view, not in the toolbar)
- some more code cleanup
New in Version 0.3.8
- Compiled as 64 bit.
- cleaned up the code a bit
New in Version 0.3.7
- Improved import of OT features from .ufo files. It tries to keep the glyph names in the features in sync with the nice names of the glyphs.
- Add decompose and reorder components (context menu with selection tool)
- Changed the settings/code for the Remove Overlap Filter. This changes the behavior a bit so please check if it works for you. This should eliminate the crashes.
New in Version 0.3.6
- Place images. Choose Layer menu > Add Image. The dimension of the image is on unit per point image size.
- some small fixes.
New in Version 0.3.5
- New option to edit OT features. You can enter the FDK code. There is no preview in the edit view for manual features.
- Snap to grid: In the font info > other settings you can change the grid size. "0"(zero) means no fitting. 1 means rounding to integer and all above fits to the grid. The rounding is done on node level, so ALL operations are bound to it.
- Measurement tool shows the coordinates and distances between points. And it measures the distances from the drag start and end.
- some stability fixes of the pen tool
New in Version 0.3.4
- fixed some build settings.
New in Version 0.3.3
- new Measurement Tool. The temporary selector is (like in FontLab) Shift+Ctrl+Option key. You may release the Shift key to measure diagonally.
- Now the spacing accents and the math Omega and mu signs are renamed to avoid confusion
- The instances now have a option to set the wight and width class. This is exported to the OTF font.
- Massive performance improvement on exporting to OTF (up to 10 times faster)
- The OTF Export now writes a command file to manually generate the .otf file.
- Make the kerning class conversion from UFOs generated from FontLab customizable. (Preferences > User Settings)
- Improved definition of the filetype and UTI.
- fix some crashes
- some smaller improvements
New in Version 0.3.2
- new: Generate Instances menu command (experimental)
- some problems with undo (thanks Matteo for reporting)
New in Version 0.3.1
- Crash reporter
- Preference dialog for the updater
- fixed the Round Corner and Offset Path Filter
- fixed starting empty font
- fixed some memory problems
New in Version 0.3
- Show count of existent glyphs in the language groups and the missing glyphs on right click
- fix the Glyph inspector (LSB and RSB were missing)
- lots of other bugs
New in Version 0.2.18
- fix crash on start and some memory issues
New in Version 0.2.17
- fix filtering of languages
- Component glyphs are updated automatically if the metrics of the base glyph or the anchors change
New in Version 0.2.16
- Export class kerning to OpenType font.
- Import kerning classes from ufo files from FontLab. The classes need "_l" and "_r" suffixes for left and right kering class.
- New layout for the Master and instance settings dialog
- Performance improvements on im- and export
- Many other small improvements
New in Version 0.2.15
- Fix the export.
- Added information to filter the font by language. Please check the infos at: Glyphs.app/Contents/Frameworks/GlyphsCore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Languages.plist
New in Version 0.2.14
- new: definition of instances and interpolations. The input of the interpolation settings is not ready. You need to somehow guess what percentage of each Master you need.
- new: The font overview shows if the masters are compatible.
- new: New interface for selecting the export options.
- changed: The .ufo export exports all (selected) Mastes, the .otf export exports all Instances
- Known issue: The preview image is sometimes not updated on changes of the interpolations settings.
- lots of other small things
New in Version 0.2.13
- some stability fixes in Selection and draw mode
- new inspector for offcurve nodes
New in Version 0.2.12
- new: Filter have Live Preview
- new: unified filter Dialog
- Ufo plugin: selection which Master to export
- fix: Ufo plugin works again
- fix: Rounding in OTF export
New in Version 0.2.11
- Version 0.2.10 did not start on Leopard.
New in Version 0.2.10
- First implementation of the "Offset Path" filter. It does not try to get correct corners and fails if a curve has a inflection
- Added a option to draw only the outlines in preview (view menu > Fill Path).
New in version 0.2.9
- Switch to previous or next glyph with scroll up and down (Fn+left/right on MacBook keyboard)
- Fixed text selection with ligatures
- Fixed several glitches from Snow Leopard transition (background displacement)
- Fixed Round Corner Filter
New in version 0.2.8
- Compiled on Snow Leopard. Tested on Leopard and Snow Leopard.
- new implementation of the Font Master setting. Not complete jet.
- fixed: problems with glyph info panel and macro panel (thanks typovar for reporting).
- attention: possible lotts of glitches from the Snow Leopard transition!!
New in version 0.2.7
- Now is it supposed to read and write all information from .ufo files from MetricsMachine including fontinfo, kerning groups and kerning.
- The glyph info view is extended to show the support for group based kering.
- change: To edit kering in text mode the shortcuts have changed: to change the kerning on the left side off the selected glyph, use ctrl+alt, for the kerning on the right side of the selected glyph, use alt+.
- known issues: the group based kering is not exported to otf fonts.
- other bug fixes
New in version 0.2.6
- if a curve node is removed, glyphs tries to keep the shape of the curve
- +0 (zero) zooms to the active Glyph, +alt+0 zooms to 100 % view
New in version 0.2.5
- double click a path selects it
- Faster open/import fonts
- fix: Copy past of text with tabs destroyed the layout.
New in version 0.2.4
- fix a bug introduced in 0.2.3
New in version 0.2.3
- Tools shortcuts: Just hit "v" for select tool, "p" for draw, "t" for text ... In text mode, hit "esc" to go to select mode without typing something.
- Performance optimization on big screens?
- Lots of memory leeks fixed.
New in version 0.2.2
- Background layer. It supports components (but no snap to those)(+B to activate it, +K to clear it, +Alt+B to copy selection to the Background, +shift+B to show/hide it)
- Rearranged menus
- One selected node: hit the enter key to change the connection from smooth to sharp and back.
- other small fixes
New in version 0.2.1
- New filter: Round corner.
- alt+Click on a line makes is a curve by placing two offcurve Points.
- The master select toolbar item now works
- fix: components are saved correctly
New in version 0.2
- Big improvement of the editing and drawing of outlines. You can constrain the angle of the handles by holding down the alt-key.
- The snapper are less jumpy.
- The precision of the remove Overlap Filter is increased. Point are not rounded to integer any more.
New in version 0.1.12:
- NEW: Introduce Filters: A new kind of plugins supply operations to paths.
- NEW: Remove Overlap Filter (Menu > Filter > Filter: Remove Overlap) Based on the checkOutline code from the Adobe FDK.
- Refined transform panel
New in version 0.1.11:
- new: the Transformation palette.
- add components with context menu.
New in version 0.1.10:
- The zoom tool is implemented now
- The temporary tool selection works now like in Photoshop ( for Select, +space for zoom in +space+alt for zoom out and space for hand tool).
New in version 0.1.9:
- New interface for selection languages/script support in the font. This will be the interface to complete the script groups
- Double click glyphs in the font list opens a new edit tab
- Fixed several bugs (0000018, 0000019) introduced in 0.1.8
New in version 0.1.8:
- copy’n’paste. It from and to Illustrator and Fontlab.
- lots of bugfixes
- Documentation of the internal data structure. Scripting Guide
New in version 0.1.7:
- faster document loading
- fixed bug introduced in 0.1.6
New in version 0.1.6:
- copy’n’paste for glyph elements (in selection and draw mode) and text in text mode
- many refinements on the groundwork
- smaller interface and usage refinements
New in version 0.1.5:
- build for PPC
- improved the path editing (leaves some problems with undo)
- fixed crash introduced in 0.1.4
- properly read flex statement from OTF files
- better display of the macro panel. (code colorisation, line numbers)
New in version 0.1.4:
- partial support for undo
- the right Glyph does not cover active glyph
- starting the documentation
- some smaller fixes
New in version 0.1.3:
- fixed Glpyhinfo window
- fixed new Glyph command
- fixed Sparkle updates
- some smaller fixes