Glyphs

What Is Glyphs?

Glyphs is a professional typography tool and font editor designed for macOS that enables designers and type professionals to create, edit, and export custom digital fonts. As a paid application, Glyphs provides a specialized environment for font design that goes beyond general vector editing software, offering features specifically built around the needs of typeface creation. The software supports all scripts covered by OpenType standards and can be extended with Python scripting for advanced workflows.

What Glyphs Does

• Draw and edit high-precision vector letterforms with advanced curve control, node manipulation, and path offsetting
• Reuse glyph shapes and components across a font to maintain consistency, including auto-aligning accents and corner components for serifs or decorative elements
• Manage thousands of glyphs through sorting, filtering, and batch-editing capabilities to apply changes across multiple characters simultaneously
• Configure font-wide metrics, kerning, OpenType features, and metadata with live syntax verification for feature code
• Export fonts in multiple formats including OTF, TTF, WOFF, and WOFF2, as well as UFO interchange format
• Import existing fonts (OTF, TTF) and vector assets (SVG, Adobe Illustrator outlines) to modify or repurpose them

How Glyphs Can Be Used

• Creating original typefaces from scratch, from initial sketches through final production-ready fonts
• Editing and customizing existing fonts for specific projects or brand applications
• Designing variable fonts with multiple masters to produce weight, width, and style variations from a single source file
• Building webfonts optimized for digital delivery across different platforms and browsers
• Developing specialty fonts such as icon fonts, dingbat fonts, or fonts for information graphics

Who Is Glyphs For?

Glyphs serves professional type designers, graphic designers working with custom typography, and advanced users who need precise control over font creation. The tool is particularly suited for projects requiring professional-level font output or managing complex typeface families. Designers who find vector editors like Adobe Illustrator insufficient for font-specific workflows—such as difficulty editing multiple direction handles simultaneously or lack of glyph-specific tools—will find Glyphs addresses these limitations. A more affordable entry-level version, Glyphs Mini, is available for casual font design projects. Visit Glyphs