New Glyphs Viewer Available
As of this week, a new version of the Glyphs Viewer iOS app is available as a free download in the AppStore. You can recognize the update by its new sleek blueish icon: Glyphs Viewer duplicates your...
View Article20–25 February 2017: Ljubljana Type Days 2017
Break away from your daily routine and spend the last week of February in the beautiful city of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia — and completely immerse in type design at the Ljubljana Type Days...
View ArticleCreating an SVG Color Font
When you look up SVG, you will find that it stands for Scalable Vector Graphics. So far, so good, but when we use the term in the realm of fonts, it can actually mean different things: The SVG Font...
View Article24–26 February 2017: Love Letters Type Design Workshop in Brussels
Que vous soyez débutant ou que vous ayez déjà un projet avancé, Love-letters vous invite à participer à son workshop de création de caractères typographiques. Au cours du workshop, vous acquerrez les...
View Article18–25 February 2017: 14th TypeClinic in Slovenia
Spend a week in a winterly Slovenian valley and make a typeface, at the 14th edition of Typeclinic! For more info, take a look at the Typeclinic Behance page. 14th TypeClinic, international type...
View ArticleFuturacha on Indiegogo
We are happy to announce our support for the Futuracha Pro project by Greek design studio Høly! When Penny Gerou from the Høly team showed us the Futuracha project, and told us that they wanted to...
View Article28–29 April 2017: Designerds Type Design Kickstart in Bozen/Bolzano
Glyphs team member Rainer Scheichelbauer will conduct the first Glyphs workshop in Italy. In German. Don’t miss this unique chance: Typedesign-Kickstart When? Fr 28. und Sa 29. April 2017 Who? Rainer...
View Article12–13 May 2017: Glyphs Workshop in Cologne
Intensive two-day workshop in Cologne in the middle of May. Stop by, get connected to the Cologne type scene, and have a cool glass of Kölsch! (After the workshop, that is.) Kölner Glyphs-Workshop...
View ArticleCreating Fonts with Complex Outlines
Modern font technology is primarily geared towards ‘normal’ typefaces. That means that some of the technologies in use assume that your font: has simple outlines with the smallest possible number of...
View Article11–12 March 2017: Corso base di Glyphs a Milano
Con type design is intende tutto quello che riguarda la progettazione di un carattere tipografico, dall’ideazione alla realizzazione. Corso base di Glyphs When? Sabato e Domenica 11-12.03.2017 H 11:00...
View Article5–7 May 2017: tga Schriftlabor 2017: Advanced Type Workshop in Vienna
As part of the Subtext type design exhibition in Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, Glyphs team member Rainer Scheichelbauer will hold an advanced type design workshop, directly on the exhibition grounds. tga...
View ArticleCrashes
Sending Crash Reports After a crash, two crash report dialogs will pop up. The first one is provided by macOS and comes up immediately after the crash. We do not care about this one. Just click Reopen...
View ArticleGlyphs 2.4.1 Released
Say hello to Glyphs 2.4.1, the smoothest Glyphs ever! Go to Glyphs > Check for Updates and get your hands on the latest version now. Read on for a quick overview. Improved Scale Tool The Scale tool...
View Article19 June–21 July 2017: Type@Paris 2017
Glyphs is happy to be a software sponsor of this year’s Type@Paris, a wonderful way to get started in, or deepen your understanding of, type design. Be quick and apply before 14 March 2017! ‘Learn how...
View ArticleCreating a Webfont in Glyphs Mini
So, you created a font in Glyphs Mini and want to display on a web page? It’s as easy as clicking a button. Read on. Exporting a WOFF In order to create a webfont, we will need a file with the suffix...
View ArticleCreating a Pixel Font in Glyphs Mini
A pixel font is a fun and easy way to get started in Glyphs Mini. Start a New Font First, open Glyphs Mini and select File > New (Cmd-N), to create a new font document. Next, go to File > Font...
View ArticleImporting from Illustrator into Glyphs Mini
So you have prepared vector drawings in Adobe Illustrator, and want to turn them into a font. It is as easy as copy and paste, but there are a handful of details you will want to pay attention to....
View Article15 April 2017: Type Design Workshop at ING Creative Festival, Dubai
On the last day of ING Creative Festival (13-15 April), type designer Pascal Zoghbi (29LT Foundry) will hold a type design workshop using Glyphs 2. Enjoy! Workshop: Type Design Process When? 15 April...
View ArticleGlyphs Mini 2: All You Need
Affordable Font Editing for Everyone Today, we are opening a whole new chapter in entry-level font editing: Say hello to Glyphs Mini 2! All you need for simple and straight-forward, single-master font...
View Article6–8 April 2017: Glyphs at TYPO Labs 2017
The 2nd TYPO Labs Conference will be held April 6–8, 2017, at Silent Green Kulturquartier in Berlin. TYPO Labs is an immersive type technology summit featuring talks, industry discussion panels,...
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