Create fonts.
Love the process.
Glyphs 4 is the leading Mac font editor: draw quickly, manage efficiently, release with confidence.
Made in Glyphs by Pascal Zoghbi.
Create icons.
Love the process.
Glyphs 4 is the leading Mac font editor: draw quickly, manage efficiently, release with confidence.
Made in Glyphs by Carrois Type Design.
Create lettering.
Love the process.
Glyphs 4 is the leading Mac font editor: draw quickly, manage efficiently, release with confidence.
Made in Glyphs by Yani & Guille.
Create logos.
Love the process.
Glyphs 4 is the leading Mac font editor: draw quickly, manage efficiently, release with confidence.
Made in Glyphs by Typejockeys.
Create pictos.
Love the process.
Glyphs 4 is the leading Mac font editor: draw quickly, manage efficiently, release with confidence.
Made in Glyphs by Sergio Ramírez Flores.
Testimonials
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After using Glyphs, the pen tool in Illustrator feels like carving a chicken with a chainsaw.
Alex Lucas -
Just generated 54 fonts with over 26,000 glyphs in less than a minute using Glyphs. That’s pretty epic.
Claus Eggers Sørensen -
Working with monoline designs and masters in Glyphs is awesome. It’s all there, no need for add-ons or app switching.
Martina Flor -
Glad we switched to Glyphs. Feels like flying business class instead of economy.
Shoko Mugikura & Tim Ahrens / Just Another Foundry -
Glyphs has loads of killer features that satisfy newcomers and veterans alike. I can’t work without it anymore.
Toshi Omagari / Tabular Type Foundry -
I can’t imagine a better way to get started in type design than through Glyphs, it has been the most intuitive and efficient way to learn type design and the best way to take my lettering pieces to another level of precision.
Cecilia del Castillo Daza / ceciliadelcastillo.com -
I am continually astonished at what a well-thought-out, well-designed piece of software Glyphs is.
Mark Simonson -
There have been three major technological breakthroughs for Arabic type: Unicode, OpenType—and Glyphs.
Nadine Chahine / Arabic type and legibility expert
What’s new in Glyphs 4?
Pen points
Flex your designs with variable strokes.
Turn any path into a living shape. Drop pen points on a segment to command width, height, and angle—all adapting perfectly to the path’s direction emitting smooth transitions to the next node.
Pointed-nib design by Giuseppe Salerno
COLRv1 support
Colors, blends, gradients. You got it.
A piece of colored cake: combine colored shapes with blending modes and opacities and achieve smoother gradients. Customize everything, see it live. Export as images—or COLRv1 fonts.
Kalnia Glaze by Frida Medrano
Visual kerning groups
Stop thinking. Build visually.
Kerning has just become fun. Drag and drop glyphs straight onto the shelf to build your kerning groups. Instantly organize your sets and keep your font’s kerning structured perfectly.
New sidebar
Say goodbye to changing tabs.
Edit view now features a powerful left sidebar that puts your most critical tools in immediate reach. Filter your glyph set, walk through your shapes, inspect your interpolations right away.
Stroke caps
Control stroke miters and endings.
Pick caps and corners for your monoline strokes, batch-edit with ease. Enjoy the many more options at your fingertips.
TM Pictos by Enigma
New Slanter filter
Make it oblique, now without the hassle.
Set slant, adjust contrast, shape and weight corrections, and boom, there is your oblique. Try it in a glyph or two, go on to apply your tweaks on the whole font, done.
New component type
Build better icons with head components.
All-new scripting window
Write code with a little help from your friends.
Browse your font masters
Massive families, zero friction.
Navigating complex font families should not slow you down. Use the new master selector for grouping, filtering and browsing your masters in one place. Instantly find the exact properties you are looking for, switch masters on the fly and take control of your project without losing your focus.
Ordina by Fadhl Haqq
Live text preview
See your fonts in action, no detours.
Put your designs to the test in the revamped text preview window, without leaving the app. Try different alignments, trackings and leadings, flip through your instances, change colors, even test your OpenType features right here.
Bree Arabic by José Scaglione, Veronika Burian & Azza Alameddine
Star nodes
Take your curves from smooth to perfect.
Shift-click a node to turn it into a star node—and get a flawless G2 transition from curve to curve. Making icons? Use the star node on the transitions from curve to line, and you can achieve the squircle shape for your app symbol.
Upgrade to Glyphs 4 and:
- Edit your glyphs in a word context
- Clean and unified interface: Font and Edit view in a single window
- Intuitive and powerful drawing tools
- Highly customizable workspace
- Extend the app with hundreds of freely available plug-ins and scripts
- Use pen points to create advanced single-stroke designs with flexible strokes
- Manage large icon sets with reusable shapes
- Advanced bézier control: batch-edit curvatures and segment harmonizations, balance handles
- Preview with in the app: interpolation, OT features, even long texts with customizable colors, tracking, line spacing
- Edit kerning groups visually, kern contextually
- Write your own Python code and edit installed scripts and plug-ins
- Export all static and variable OpenType font formats: CFF, CFF2, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2
- Export as images: PNG, SVG, PDF, SFSymbols
- All color formats supported: COLRv0/CPAL, COLRv1, SVG, sbix, layered fonts
Create things you love.
Get the support you need.
Create
Take full control of your curves
Easily turn your idea into pristine vectors, and do all the things Illustrator never let you do: nudge, edit multiple handles at the same time, lock angles, batch-control curvatures, balance handles, harmonize curve segments.
Work little, make much: interpolate your drawings
Draw and manage multiple master drawings, and then easily produce as many steps in between as you like. Insert intermediate or alternate masters for that extra precision in interpolation.
Stop copying and pasting, reuse your shapes smartly
Reuse glyphs as components inside other glyphs: edit the original, and all linked components update immediately. Use this to make your a the same in äâãāăȧà, or to keep any number of shapes in sync across many glyphs.
Colors and contours: who said fonts were only black and white
Apply colors, shadows, glows and gradients with color layers. Ideal for information graphics and color fonts. Or tap into the possibilities of color font formats: SVG, COLRv0, COLRv1, sbix and traditional layer fonts.
Produce
Variable fonts: make your type flexible
Become a typography superhero and make your letters dynamic. Mix your styles with particles, and export both static and variable TTF and CFF2 fonts for any platform.
Manage: juggle thousands of glyphs and stay in charge
Batch-edit many glyphs at once: change glyph info and side bearings, apply filters and transform any number of letters, figures and symbols.
Export: get any major font or image format out the door
Satisfy all font needs by delivering all OpenType formats: CFF-flavored OTFs, TTFs, as well as WOFF and WOFF2 webfonts, TT and CFF2 variable fonts. Enhance your Xcode project with pristine SFSymbols. Make sets of icons, dingbats and symbols. Export them as icon fonts, or as PNG, SVG or PDF.
Extend
Plug-ins: it’s your workspace, so extend Glyphs your way
Choose from hundreds of plug-ins and scripts in Plugin Manager and install them with a single click.
OpenType features: make your fonts smart
Stop wasting your time hunting for errors in your feature code. Glyphs does that for you as you type, with its built-in live in-line syntax verification. Or let Glyphs automate feature code straight away: no more typos, and it stays up to date all by itself.
Code: add your own Python code for pretty much anything
Take advantage of the full-featured Python 3 API. No coding experience? Learn scripting in an afternoon with these four free and easy tutorials.
Get to know Glyphs
You’ll love handbook and tutorials, as well as videos, courses and books by Glyphs users
Everything I know about Glyphs, I learned reading the Glyphs 4 handbook.
→ And the tutorials.
→ And the courses.
→ And other books.
Kern On
Tim Ahrens
Kern on is a revolutionary kerning assistant that helps you cut down the time you spend kerning to just a few minutes. It takes care of kern groups and your kerning. All it needs is a few kern pairs from you, then the plug-on ‘kerns on for you’.
Speed Punk
Yanone
Speed Punk is a learning tool. It teaches you to better understand the nature of Bézier curves and their curvature, the technical basis of digital type design.
Font Remix Tools
Just Another Foundry
The Font Remix Tools are a set of plug-ins Glyphs. They allow to harmonize glyph shapes, tune the width, automatically generate small caps, generate superior figures and many more.
Lttr/Ink
Martin Cetkovský and Filip Zajac
Use stroke skeletons to speed up your work. LTTR/INK’s mighty nib force lets you draw with skeletons and control the stroke like never before. Forget outline editing, LTTR/INK generates perfectly plotted outlines, even directly to the exported font file.
Show Stem Thickness
Rafal Buchner
The Font Remix Tools are a set of plug-ins Glyphs. They allow to harmonize glyph shapes, tune the width, automatically generate small caps, generate superior figures and many more.