Typeface 4.2

Restoring Activated Fonts

Fonts manually activated using Typeface should stay activated until explicitly deactivated, even after restarting your Mac. Your activated fonts will therefore stay available in your design apps.

However, Typeface does not prevent other applications from activating or deactivating fonts. External (de)activations are respected and the font activation status is updated accordingly in your library. This makes sure that the app doesn’t fight you or other apps — for example when you manually activate fonts using Font Book, or when Adobe Fonts updates the synced fonts on your Mac. These changes should not be reverted automatically, because they are deliberate actions.

But sometimes deactivations are not deliberately made by you and you may find that your activated fonts are suddenly not available anymore. This may for example happen when macOS is updated to a newer version. During the update process the system may clear the macOS font cache, which results in deactivation of your fonts.

Now Typeface can detect those deactivations at launch and allows you to easily restore the activated fonts. You can choose to reactivate them, or leave them deactivated — you stay in charge.

Backups

In addition to detecting deactivated fonts at launch you can also restore activated fonts at any time from a backup. Tag backups contain information about your activations and you can optionally restore them when importing a backup.

The new Backup section in Settings allows you to view and restore the automatic backups Typeface creates when you close the app. So whenever you notice fonts were deactivated without your consent, you’ll be up and running again quickly by restoring them from a backup.

Enjoy!

NEW	Choose to restore previously activated fonts on launch
NEW	Optionally restore activated fonts from a tag backup file
NEW	Added a Backup section to Settings with direct access to auto backups
IMPROVED	Allow exporting unmapped glyphs as rich text
IMPROVED	Reordered some punctuation characters in the Characters detail tab
IMPROVED	Allow moving font files from /Library/Fonts to trash
FIXED	Polished up some visual inconsistencies for future macOS release
FIXED	Immediately enable Command4-5-6-7 keyboard shortcuts when viewing font details
FIXED	Prevent animating window title when launching app
FIXED	Show dynamic glyph sample when previewing font without mapped characters
FIXED	Display correct font kind icon in list overview when font is marked as a main preview
FIXED	Vertically center manufacturer and designer names in list overview when they contain new line characters