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Glyphs 3

Pro Mac type design app

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About

The text of this website is composed in ABC Arizona , a sans-to-serif variable font courtesy of ABC Dinamo . Cyrillic text set in Accia by Mint Type .

Glyphs 4 is the leading Mac font editor: draw quickly, manage efficiently, release with confidence.

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.

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

Features

  • After using Glyphs, the pen tool in Illustrator feels like carving a chicken with a chainsaw. Alex Lucas
  • 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
Pricing
Paid
Pricing detail
One-time Mac professional type editor
Platforms
Desktop

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