December 20th, 2021
Typeface v3.5
Lots of small improvements in this update to make certain features easier to discover for new users and advanced options quicker to access for veterans.
You can now press & hold on many buttons to get access to context menus. This works for all toolbar buttons, sidebar headers, activation indicators, collected fonts and OpenType filters. Furthermore the search field has been improved, you can type to scroll to a specific font in the grid and you can customize the toolbar drop action. Try them out to improve your workflow — enjoy!
| NEW | Type to scroll to fonts starting with a specific prefix. For example type ‘he’ to jump to Helvetica |
| NEW | Added grid toolbar button for convenient access to some grid options |
| NEW | Press & hold toolbar buttons to get a menu of options |
| NEW | Press & hold the activation icon to get activation options for a font |
| NEW | Press & hold the Quick Collect icon of collected fonts to quickly access tagging, activation and clearing options |
| NEW | Show context menus when clicking on sidebar header icons |
| NEW | Add a tag to the search filters from the sidebar context menu |
| NEW | Added Refresh All option to refresh all imported locations when clicking on imported locations icon in sidebar |
| NEW | Customize drop action when dragging fonts to the toolbar. Right click on the toolbar to choose a different option. Multi Attach is the default option. |
| IMPROVED | Added new import submenu, with options for Adobe Fonts, Google Fonts, Font Book and Supplemental System Fonts |
| IMPROVED | More uniform sidebar icons, new icons for Adobe Fonts and Google Fonts, improved toolbar icons |
| IMPROVED | Allow click and hold for buttons showing context menus |
| IMPROVED | Enable double click to view details by default when using Click to Collect |
| IMPROVED | Ask for confirmation when trying to activate more than 50 fonts at once |
| IMPROVED | Added Hide Fonts Missing Glyphs to advanced filter menu. Search field will show a highlighted icon when the filter is active |
| IMPROVED | Show information on how to filter tags when the search field is in focus |
| IMPROVED | Press Option to add an inverted tag suggestion to the filters when searching |
| IMPROVED | Filter tags by typing a : in the search field (same behavior as #) |
| IMPROVED | Automatically expand search field when search terms are overflowing the field |
| IMPROVED | Clear collected fonts while dragging by holding down OptionShift keys instead of just Shift which may have been confusing |
| IMPROVED | Changed visuals of dragging image when holding down OptionShift to clear collected fonts |
| IMPROVED | Improved performance of copying paths of multiple fonts |
| IMPROVED | Show System, Untagged and Font Book by default in sidebar, can be hidden |
| IMPROVED | Show information about app communication permissions when using Font Switch for the first time |
| FIXED | Don’t launch Typeface when InDesign Auto Activator has been enabled and Typeface has been closed |
| FIXED | Briefly highlight previews when attaching or detaching a tag |
| FIXED | Prevent crash when showing OpenType features of font with incorrect GSUB lookup records |
| FIXED | Don’t allow new lines when creating tags |
| FIXED | Select inserted text when pressing CommandShift▸/CommandShift◂ when searching |
| FIXED | Prevent selecting tag suggestions under the current mouse position when searching tags |
| FIXED | Correctly scroll previews when resizing previews to smallest size |
| FIXED | Don’t show preview border when clicking on the activation indicator and Click to Collect is enabled |
| FIXED | Prevent highlighting Quick Collection icon when removing fonts from the Collection in certain occasions |
| FIXED | Correctly align Quick Collection count when highlighting |
| FIXED | Prevent crash when removing PostScript Type 1 fonts with unexpected file type codes |