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List view

Switch to the brand new List view to get a tabular overview of your fonts with detailed font metadata.

The List view is not just a simple table with technical font info — fonts are grouped by family and display useful aggregate data for all fields. Such that you can quickly see which families contain fonts from multiple locations, different versions or manufacturers.

The Style Range graph in the style column presents a visual summary of family font styles. This allows you to see at a glance whether a family contains a wide range of font styles, or just a single one. The graph marks font members by weight: light on the left to bold on the right, and has separate indicators for roman/italic and multiple variants.

You can toggle between List (tabular data) and Grid (previews) using the view button in the toolbar. Alternatively choose View > as List from the main menu, or press Command1 for Grid, Command3 for List.

Columns can be adjusted by right clicking (or Control-clicking) on the table header, or by long pressing on the toolbar view button. Click on any column header to change the order of your fonts.

Learn more about the List view

Partial families

To make working with the List view more intuitive there has been an under-the-hood change of how families are grouped. Previously grouped families would always show all fonts in a family, even if not all family members would match your current tag or filters. For example if you attached a tag to single regular font, the grid still showed the full family including light and bold when browsing that tag.

Now both the Grid and List support partial families. Families will only show the family members that exactly match the filters and tags you have selected. This is particularly useful if you have duplicate fonts from separate locations. Selecting a location in the sidebar will now exclusively show fonts from that location, and family members from other locations will not be grouped together anymore.

Enjoy!

Typeface 4.0 requires macOS 12 Monterey or later. This update is free for everyone. New Pro features, such as List view, may require an extension of your license.

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 View > Show Colors 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!

Growing tired of always seeing the same fonts first when browsing your library? Enable the new random sorting to get a fresh and unbiased view of your fonts. You might discover some new favourites that were previously hidden in the deep depths of your collection.

Tags in Typeface allow you to neatly organize your fonts. When your library grows you can make subtags to structure your collections, simply by adding a ‘/’ to tag names: #my/nested/tag. Now you can conveniently nest subtags by dragging them to another tag in the sidebar, so you don’t have to manually rename and add parent tag prefixes anymore. You can also drag tags to the search field for quick filtering.

The Text detail tab includes two new text layouts: Characters and Waterfall. Get a quick overview of which accented characters are supported, or view multiple font weights at once. Quick brown fox is here to help :)

Enjoy!

Browse subfolders

With Typeface app you have full control over where you store your fonts. When you import a folder Typeface links to its location, font files are not copied or moved.

This also allows you to organize your font files and folder structure however you want. You’re not constrained to an app managed hierarchy. For example you can group fonts in subfolders by foundry, source, client or even alphabetically.

Now in Typeface v3.13 you can view your custom subfolder structure from Finder directly in the sidebar. Expand your imported locations to browse through subfolders and find the fonts you need. Filter fonts by adding a nested folder to the search filters, or directly activate and deactivate fonts in a specific directory. And you can quickly collapse all folders to get them out of the way.

If you’ve already imported multiple separate subfolders into the app you can simply import their parent folder from Finder. Expand the parent folder in the sidebar to explore subfolders. Then you can remove the separate imported locations from the sidebar and your fonts will stay imported through the imported parent folder.