Typeface v3.15
Black on white is the most common way to display typography. With a lot of contrast it also makes sense for previewing the overall shape and character of your fonts.
But you may already have a specific color palette in mind for a project. Or perhaps you want to see what a font looks like in low contrast situations.
Therefore I’m excited to announce a colorful new update: you can now customize colors for preview text and backgrounds directly in Typeface app.
No need to switch back and forth to your design app anymore to preview a font on a vivid business card, flyer or website. Switch to the colors of your choice by choosing > from the main menu, or click on the color wheel button in the Pr preview text panel.
What’s super cool? The interface subtly adjusts to the colors you pick, to fully immerse yourself in the theme. And if you need additional contrast for accessibility choose one of the new high contrast themes in Settings.
In addition to colorizing regular fonts, you can also preview color palettes of color fonts (COLRv0). These special fonts contain several layers which can be colored separately to create nice effects. Use the Variables detail tab to adjust these palettes.
Enjoy!
| NEW | Customize preview text and background colors |
| NEW | Configure interface tinting in Settings to colorize interface based on preview colors |
| NEW | Preview predefined color palettes for color fonts in the detail Variables tab |
| NEW | Added two new themes for light/dark mode to increase contrast of font names and other UI elements |
| IMPROVED | Support small/medium/large sidebar font sizes according to value in > |
| IMPROVED | Follow context menu font size according to > > > |
| IMPROVED | Added option to disable changing previews when hovering over variable sliders |
| IMPROVED | Added option to hide variable axes marked as hidden in font file |
| IMPROVED | Snap to variable slider markers by holding down the Option key |
| IMPROVED | Added tooltip for columns button in list styles detail view |
| IMPROVED | Increased selection border width a bit on retina screens for improved visibility |
| FIXED | Correctly render OpenType feature previews for color fonts in dark mode |
| FIXED | Swapped tooltips for Characters & Waterfall text layout buttons |
| FIXED | Prevent marking characters as missing glyphs for variable fonts in body text layouts if tracking value is non-zero |
| FIXED | Reduce spacing between info table rows when printing detail view of a font |
| FIXED | Prevent flash of empty cells when viewing family preview styles detail tab |
| FIXED | Properly colorize underlined preview text in dark mode |
| FIXED | Prevent clipping of info buttons in small body text blocks |
| FIXED | Prevent crash when double clicking on empty space in Duplicate Finder |
| FIXED | Prevent crash when importing or adding fonts to a tag while the Preview Text filter is enabled |
| FIXED | Automatically show main window when launching app on macOS 15 Sequoia and Background Mode is enabled |