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Glyphs smart and simple approach helps you draw new typefaces, modify existing fonts, and sculpt your letterforms hassle-free.

Editing

New: Filter > Fix Compatibility: Drag the elements up or down to match them.
New: View > Show Info now shows kerning group info and lock also for the left glyph.
New: View > Show Bounding Box.
New: Window > Preview Panel.
You now can lock many selected guides at once.
If two nodes are selected when adding a guide, the line will coincide with them (thanks Ben).
Dramatically improved generation of kern feature: much more kerning is possible without a subtable overflow, and the resulting GPOS table will be smaller.
Nodes can now be aligned via the transformation palette.
Images can now be rotated.
Transformations filter can now export Custom Parameter to the clipboard.
New and improved warning badges for missing components and bad component references.
Add Components dialog now remembers the most recent search string.
Bracket layers: improved preview and mark cloud.
Feature selector pop-up is highlighted if a feature is selected.
Auto-alignment for glyphs that are affected by "Rename Glyphs" parameters.
Annotation tool: Select All selects all annotations.
Annotation tool: Move annotations with the keyboard.
Fix drag duplication of paths with curve segments.
Fixed decomposition of anchors for nested components.
Fixed mark feature.
Fixed cursor of knife tool.
Fixed scrolling in vertical layout.
Improved "Reconnect Nodes" function.
Improved anchor decomposition of rotated components.
Improved display of selected components.
Improved undo, especially for anchors.

Languages, Scripts, and Glyph Data

Smart Components

Allow extrapolation in Smart Components.
Editing of multiple Smart Components at once.
Improved handling of nested Smart Components.
Smart Components can use Width or Height Property for bounding box scaling. Preliminary support only.
Smart Components can now use all layers from all masters.

Hinting

New: instructed TrueType outline preview for manual TT hinting.
Improved TrueType prep table for manual TT hinting: basic overshoot suppression.
Improved performance of TrueType Instruction tool.
Fixed problems with diagonal hints.
Minimised path distortions by using freedom vector for manual TT instructions.
Updated TTF Autohint to latest version.

Font View

Font Info

New custom parameters: "Replace Feature", "Remove Classes" and "Replace Class".
Removed validation for style linking check boxes.
Improved storing of "Color Palettes" custom parameter.
Preview now respects custom parameters 'winAscent' and 'winDescent', or preferably 'Preview Ascender', 'Preview Descender'.

UFO

Read and write UFO guidelines.
Fixed writing of widthClass to UFO.
Improved UFO import and export.
Improved conversion of lib data between .glyphs and .ufo formats.
Improved handling of extra UFO layers (background), now compatible with RoboFont.
Improved stability of UFO handling.

Scripting

Major update of the Python wrapper. See docu.glyphsapp.com for details. Many thanks to Yanone.
Properly set current directory for scripts.
Fix updating of smart components if values are set by a script.

General

Hide Masters button in toolbar in single-master files.
Fixed preview for fonts without instances.
Updated Spanish localisation (thanks Txus).
No more quotes for negative numbers in file format. This will cause some changes in version control, but makes the file easier to parse for third parties.
Fixed copying and pasting of placeholders for sample strings.
Fixed copying and pasting of upper plane characters (u10000 and above).
Many small improvements and fixes.
Stability improvements.
Improved QuickLook.
Fixed a crash.