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While tags are great to organize your font library into categories, they are limited in the amount of information you can store.

Sometimes you may want to explain more about how or why a particular font is used. Or you’d like to remember where you saw a font used on a website, poster, movie or book cover.

Now you can store all your comments in the new Notes field. Write down interesting information about a font’s history, list relevant links for inspiration or add snarky remarks about the looks of a single glyph that clearly doesn’t match the other glyphs at all. At all!

Navigate to the Info tab and scroll down to view the Notes field. You can enter any text you like, no judging. Links will be highlighted automatically and will open your browser on click.

Notes are attached to a single font style, but if you view any other style in a family the notes from family members will show up as well for your convenience. That allows you to quickly edit the notes of other styles or neatly consolidate separate notes into one.

You can easily find back fonts with your comments using the search field. Searching for notes is enabled by default — to adjust the search scope follow these steps:

1. Click on the search field
2. Click on the ⋯ button
3. Enable or disable Search Scope > Notes

Want to display your notes in the overview list?

1. Choose View > as List from the main menu
2. Right click (or Control-click) on a column header
3. Enable Notes from the context menu

The overview list also includes a new Last Activated column. This allows you to view when a font was last activated. You can find this information in the Info detail tab and in the right click context menu.

Sort fonts by last activation date to find back the font you’ve used recently. To do that choose View > Sort by > Last Activated from the main menu.

Enjoy!

Localized forms

Modern font files are much more than just a collection of fancy glyphs. Advanced OpenType features give the ability to change specific glyphs into alternates, swashes, ligatures, small caps etc. to make a design of your own. One of these typographic features is called ‘Localized Forms’ which allows a font to show a localized variant form of certain characters based on the text language.

For example the Cyrillic letter De (д) has multiple forms, where the variant that resembles the triangular shape of the Greek letter delta may be used in Bulgarian and Serbian. Or the Latin letter S with cedilla (ş) which can be displayed as an S with comma in Romanian.

Now you can preview these in Typeface by choosing a language from the Typography > Language menu. Fonts that support localized forms will show the glyph variants for the selected language.

This feature works because a font may define a different set of OpenType features for specific scripts and languages. You can browse these different sets in the Features detail tab using the new script selector.

Additionally, the family style list has been enhanced with automatically grouped related styles. This is particularly useful if you have duplicate fonts from different foundries or fonts that come in multiple formats (web fonts, desktop fonts).

These styles are now neatly organized in separate sections in the detail view, such that you can localize and activate exactly the ones you need. And the new auto resizing columns ensure all meta data is visible in the family style list.

Enjoy!

Pairing Fonts

After many iterations and prototypes I’m proud to introduce a brand new Typeface module: Pairing Studio. This new panel allows you to mix and match multiple fonts in text layouts, with a fresh interface fully dedicated to font combinations and iterative designing.

Pair exquisite display fonts to grab attention with clear text fonts that prioritize legibility for body copy. Pick a family with multiple weights and create a satisfying hierarchy of styles. Or just play around for fun and see what sticks.

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Enjoy!