Glyphs-Handbook-2013

Contents
1 Glyphs 6
1.1 A Tool for Creating Fonts 6
1.2 System Requirements 6
1.3 Community 6
1.4 Updates 6
1.5 Glyphs Mini 7
1.6 Keyboard Shortcuts 7
2 Edit View 8
2.1 Drawing Paths 8
2.1.1 Freehand Outlines 8
2.1.2 Primitives 8
2.2 Editing Paths 9
2.2.1 Selecting, Moving,
Converting 9
2.2.2 Scaling and Rotating 10
2.2.3 Aligning 10
2.2.4 Deleting Nodes 11
2.2.5 Opening and Closing
Paths 12
2.2.6 Cutting Paths 12
2.2.7 Resegmenting Outlines 12
2.2.8 Controlling Path
Direction 13
2.2.9 Extremes and Inflection
Points 14
2.3 Guidelines 14
2.3.1 Magnetic Guidelines 14
2.3.2 Local and Global
Guidelines 14
2.4 Glyph Display 15
2.4.1 Zooming 15
2.4.2 Panning 16
2.4.3 Nodes in Alignment
Zones 16
2.4.4 Components, Anchors,
Clouds 17
2.4.5 Special Marks for Glyph
Composition 20
2.4.6 Mark to Base Positioning 20
2.4.7 Mark to Mark
Positioning 20
2.4.8 Cursive Attachment
Anchors 21
2.5 Background 21
2.6 Entering Text 21
2.6.1 Sample Texts 22
2.6.2 Text Tool 22
2.6.3 Writing Direction 23
2.7 Measuring 23
2.7.1 Info Box 23
2.7.2 Measurement Tool 25
2.7.3 Measurement Guidelines 25
2.7.4 Measurement Line 26
2.8 Annotating 27
2.8.1 Annotation Cursor 27
2.8.2 Annotation Text 27
2.8.3 Annotation Arrow 28
2.8.4 Annotation Circle 28
2.8.5 Plus and Minus
Annotations 28
2.9 Images 28
2.9.1 Adding Images 28
2.9.2 Manipulating Images 29
2.10 Previewing and Testing 29
2.10.1 Previewing Kerning 29
2.10.2 Previewing Masters 29
2.10.3 Previewing Path Oset 30
2.10.4 Previewing OpenType
Features 30
2.10.5 Previewing Interpolated
Instances 30
2.10.6 Previewing in OS X 31
2.10.7 Previewing in Adobe
applications 32
2.11 Exchanging Outlines with
Illustrator 32
2.11.1 Preparation 32
2.11.2 Set the Page Origin 32
2.11.3 Copy the Paths 33