Changelog
What changed in each version, newest first. Updates within version 1 are included with a licence, and the app checks for them by itself.
1.1 · 11 September 2026
Spacing, next to kerning
Kerning always had its own editor: pick two glyphs, adjust the gap between them. Spacing had nothing comparable, although it is the more basic work. Narrowing “AV” means those two characters; trimming the right side of the “r” means every “r” in the text. The new view is the twin of the kerning editor. Space first, then kern: whoever starts the other way round fixes case by case what is off systematically.
The glyph editor shows the advance width
A tester read the grid as the width of the letter, and that reading came from this view: you see a grid, you see the glyph inside it, and you conclude one is the width of the other. Two vertical lines now show where the letter actually begins and ends in text.
A proof strip under the drawing
The only context used to be a fixed pair in the inspector, two letters on a small panel. Type designers think in words, so a strip now floats under the canvas and shows the glyph in one.
A line for the descender
x-height and cap height were already drawn against the grid as measurements. How deep the “j” really reaches was not, and the darker band below the baseline does not answer it: that is the descender rows of the grid, a setting that applies to every glyph alike.
A Learn chapter about the grid
Two testers ran aground on the same thing. One had to “lay the grid out too wide to draw w and m” and damaged his spacing doing it; the other asked for guidance on the grid outright. The new chapter sits second, right after the first run-through, and says above all what the grid is not: the width of a letter.
Canonically equal characters get the same glyph
U+0340 is the same grave accent as U+0300, U+2126 the same ohm sign as capital omega, U+212B the same Å as U+00C5. Unicode carries these duplicates so that older encodings survive a round trip, but they turn up in real text all the same. A font that knows only the canonical form shows a box for the rest, and the person who drew it never finds out why. On export, every codepoint whose canonical form is a single other character now gets that character’s glyph.
Promo codes can be redeemed inside the app
App Store Connect hands out promo codes for press, testers and giveaways, and they count for in-app purchases as well. Until now they could only be redeemed in the App Store, outside the app: you were given a code and had to work out for yourself where it belonged.
Smaller things
- A new project shows width, height and descenders before the first stroke, and those three numbers looked like a decision to get right now. They are not, the grid can be changed at any time, and the note saying so now sits above the steppers rather than below them.
- The guides that belonged to one tool no longer help only that tool.
- A shortened copy no longer shortens what it points at.
- The licence email points at a page, not at a file, so a new version never turns it into a dead link.
- Builds pick the right certificate when two are installed.
1.0 · 2 September 2026
The first release.