April 21st, 2021
Typeface v3.0
Proudly presenting the biggest update ever: vastly improved internals, awesome performance and great new features!
Some features require Typeface Pro (single in-app purchase). You’ll get a personal discount offer inside the app to upgrade.
Interaction
| NEW | Added secondary action indicator in the bottom-right corner of a preview. |
| NEW | Default click action can be changed by adjusting the Default Action setting. Choose between Click-to-collect a font or Click-to-view-details. The secondary action indicator will adjust accordingly. Previously known as ‘Collection Priority Mode’. Command-click for Click-to-collect is not available anymore, it stays available for Click-to-view-details |
| NEW | Added separate setting for targeting fonts. Dragging and right click will now target collected fonts by default |
| IMPROVED | Tweaked app colors, improved legibility of font names and activation bullet |
| IMPROVED | Increased hover area for activation bullet |
| IMPROVED | Added down states to activation bullet |
| IMPROVED | Collecting fonts now gives immediate visual feedback by showing the outline. Very large font collections have a delay between clicking and actually collecting |
| IMPROVED | Highlight targeted fonts on right click |
| IMPROVED | Adjusted down states for regular buttons |
Text Layouts
| NEW | Added new ‘Text’ detail page to preview body text |
| NEW | Multiple templates to preview how a font looks in different layouts: book, columns, magazine, quote |
| NEW | On trackpads pinch to adjust font size, Option-pinch to adjust tracking |
| NEW | Drag mouse horizontally to adjust font size, drag vertically to adjust tracking |
| NEW | Click the info button to view text properties for the given text block |
| NEW | Create custom layout templates, see … button in the layout switcher |
| NEW | Layout templates are simple text files that contain multiple blocks of text properties and text content, see ‘Custom.txt’ for details |
OpenType features
| NEW | Added ‘Typography’ main menu item which allows you to enable/disable OpenType features for all previews. Including Ligatures, Oldstyle/Tabular Figures, Superiors, Alternates, Fractions, Kerning and more |
| NEW | Inspect OpenType feature support on the new ‘Features’ detail page |
| NEW | Get a detailed overview of the individual glyphs included in each OpenType feature (GSUB table) supported by a font |
| NEW | Hover over each feature to get a live preview. Includes A/B Compare support to reveal the differences |
| NEW | Show advanced input, output and context (backtrack + lookahead) glyph rules for each glyph substitution in the right click context menu |
| NEW | Copy the input characters necessary to use a certain feature in the right click context menu |
Some features are not supported on macOS 10.12 — salt ornm rand titl fwid qwid vkna nalt jalt
Variable Fonts
| NEW | Added new ‘Variables’ detail page for variable fonts |
| NEW | Get a live preview by hovering over each variable slider |
| NEW | Small previews indicate how each variable behaves |
| NEW | Confirm variables by dragging/clicking on the sliders |
| NEW | Automatic Optical Size (opsz) adjustment when available |
| NEW | Copy variables to CSS output |
| NEW | Double click on a header to reset |
| NEW | Compare variable changes to default by enabling A/B Compare |
| FIXED | Correctly paint missing glyphs in variable font previews |
For variable font examples check v-fonts.com
Quick Attach
| NEW | Quickly add or remove multiple tags to/from fonts |
| NEW | Summon the panel on trackpads by tapping with three fingers, or using Force Touch |
| NEW | Choose Tags > Attach… from the context menu or Edit > Tags > Attach… from the main menu (CommandT) |
| NEW | Or drag fonts to the toolbar at the top of the window |
| NEW | Type to search tags |
| NEW | Press Return to attach the highlighted tag or confirm your tags |
| NEW | Press Tab to toggle the highlighted tag |
| NEW | Press Escape to cancel the adjustments |
| NEW | Click a tag to toggle |
| NEW | Click outside to confirm your tags |
Importing
| NEW | Completely renewed and more robust file management core: faster synchronization, better import logic |
| NEW | Show fonts imported from Font Book in the sidebar with a custom tag. Settings > Library > Font Book |
| NEW | Remove fonts imported from Font Book |
| NEW | Import individual font files directly into the app. New Manual Imports tag in sidebar |
| NEW | Drag and drop folders or files to tags in the sidebar from Finder |
| NEW | Move fonts directly to trash from inside the app. Right click > Move Font to Trash |
| NEW | Remove imported fonts from the app, will be reimported if located in an imported directory. Right click > hold down Option > Remove Font from Typeface) |
| NEW | Show loading progress when importing new fonts. Including very accurate status messages |
| NEW | Fonts moved outside of imported directories are now considered missing (removed from Typeface) |
| IMPROVED | Allow moving Google fonts to a custom location on your Mac |
| IMPROVED | Don’t wait for background sync when removing imported location from sidebar |
| IMPROVED | Prevent Typeface from repeatedly asking to connect to unavailable remote location |
| IMPROVED | Renamed Adobe Fonts directory in sidebar to ‘Adobe’ |
| IMPROVED | Support getting font traits from fonts using OS/2 version 5 |
| IMPROVED | Added support for .mrf file extension |
| IMPROVED | Support localized font names (useful for Japanese/Chinese fonts) |
| IMPROVED | Enable and disable external import locations in Settings > Library |
| IMPROVED | Better performance when removing an imported location |
| IMPROVED | More robust loading of fonts |
Activation
| NEW | Completely renewed Activation core: much faster activations |
| NEW | Temporarily activate fonts, which will be deactivated automatically when you close the app or restart your Mac. Right click > hold down Option > Activate Temporarily |
| NEW | Allow setting Temporary activations as default. Settings > Activation > Prefer Temporary Activations |
| NEW | Activate or Deactivate tags. Right click on tag > Activate/Deactivate |
| NEW | Added deactivation context menu option if the current selection contains both activated and deactivated fonts |
| NEW | Allow disabling of fonts located in the macOS font directories, such that they stay deactivated. /Library/Fonts, ~/Library/Fonts, /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental |
| NEW | Clear all Temporarily activated fonts. Right click on #Temp Activated tag > Clear Temp Activated |
| IMPROVED | Better messaging when conflicts are discovered or fonts cannot be activated |
Search
| NEW | Added filter for x-height |
| NEW | Added filters for number styles. Old Style/Lining/Proportional/Tabular, recognizes both default style for all fonts and optional style for Open Type fonts |
| NEW | Added filters for layout features. Ligatures/Alternates/Small caps/Fractions/Ordinals, right click for even more advanced filter options |
| NEW | Added filters for special fonts. Variable/Color/Bitmap |
| NEW | Added advanced filters. Layout feature support/Glyph outline type |
| NEW | Optionally search for Manufacturer/Designer. Enable: Filters > … > Search > Manufacturer/Designer |
| IMPROVED | Allow diacritic insensitive search for font names |
Other
| NEW | Order fonts by import date. Enable View > Grid > Order by Import Date |
| NEW | Show fonts in single column. Enable View > Grid > Show List |
| NEW | Customize library tags in sidebar/ Right click on All tag > turn on/off tags, including system/deactivated/untagged and more |
| NEW | Show inverted tag from context menu. Right click on tag > Show Not Tag |
| NEW | Support for WOFF & WOFF2 file formats, including new advanced filter |
| NEW | Info context submenu contains info about a font, click an item to copy to clipboard |
| NEW | Go to font details by choosing Info > Details |
| IMPROVED | Locale-aware sorting of tags (special characters), correct sorting for numbers (#10 comes after #9) |
| IMPROVED | Drastically improved performance of select/deselect all |
| IMPROVED | Drastically improved performance of context menu for many fonts |
| IMPROVED | Drastically improved performance of dragging many fonts |
| IMPROVED | Added tooltip for font path in context menu |
| IMPROVED | Added debug log launch option |
| IMPROVED | Toggle lock/unlock the size of a preview on the detail page when scrolling by clicking on the preview |
| IMPROVED | Back button background in full screen |
| IMPROVED | Drag and drop fonts/directories directly to the sidebar in between other locations or on the (+) without specifying a tag |
| IMPROVED | Changing tracking value now keeps kerning value when possible |
| IMPROVED | Realigned buttons in Compare toolbar |
| IMPROVED | Changed size of headers around the app |
| IMPROVED | Renamed/rearranged some OpenType filters in the search panel to make them consistent with Typography menu |
| IMPROVED | Changed visuals of sliders |
| IMPROVED | Adjusted View menu options to clarify their actions |
| IMPROVED | More robust window height constraints when content exceeds screen size in detail view |
| IMPROVED | Keep sidebar open while creating a new tag on drag and drop |
| IMPROVED | Removed previously attached tag from context menu, replaced by Quick Attach |
| IMPROVED | Allow confirming deletion confirmation popovers by pressing Return |
| IMPROVED | Tweaked tag fuzzy search algorithm to give full matches a higher weight |
| IMPROVED | Increased speed of grouping large font lists by family |
| IMPROVED | Handle attaching/detaching tags in the background to give a smoother experience when displaying 50k+ fonts |
| IMPROVED | Reworked context menu, now allows comparing when targeting multiple collected fonts (will compare clicked font) |
| IMPROVED | Generalized license view |
| IMPROVED | New Big Sur app icon |
| IMPROVED | New empty/loading message icon |
| IMPROVED | Show error message when feedback message cannot be sent |
| IMPROVED | Improved copy when app isn’t able to launch |
| IMPROVED | Improved copy of compare dropdown menu |
| IMPROVED | Removed Quick Collection item from context menu |
| FIXED | Incorrect animation when removing an imported location from the sidebar |
| FIXED | Incorrect animation when showing font details if dynamic font names are previewed and fonts are grouped by family |
| FIXED | Print font names when dynamic preview option is enabled |
| FIXED | Don’t show remember preview option if that option is already remembered |
| FIXED | Back button vertical alignment |
| FIXED | Slow printing to PDF when macOS dark mode is enabled |
| FIXED | Set correct text color for collection count in toolbar when switching theme |
| FIXED | Prevent three-finger-taps from freezing the application |
| FIXED | Prevent (renamed) #typeface/temp-active tag from importing on tag restore |
| FIXED | Prevent creating tags with a leading ! |
| FIXED | Allow drag and drop fonts/folders on icon when current tag is empty |
Typeface 3 drops support for macOS 10.11 El Capitan.