Font editor | MkFont

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Font editor

Where you spend 100% of your time within MkFont.

> This is an overview of the Font Editor.

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Breakdown

The Font Editor is broken down into three main areas, covered in length in their own sections :

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Editor explorers

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Content explorer

Unicode. All of it.

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Preview explorer

An handy interactive preview.

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History explorer

Your friendly time machine.

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Viewport & glyph editor

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Font viewport

Navigate & search through Unicode slots.

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Glyph inspector

Edit individual & multiples glyphs here.

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Header actions

Button | Action
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Navigation
| Navigate to the previous editor state
| Navigate to the next editor state
Writing files
Save | Save the current file. If it does not exist on disk already, will prompt for a location & filename. Can be activated using .
Export | Export the current font as a .ttf file. You will be prompted for a location & filename each time.
Family settings
Infos | Brings up the inspector.
Metrics | Brings up the Family metrics inspector.
Importing content
Ligatures | Brings up the Ligatures finder dialog.
SVGs | Brings up the dialog.
TTF | You will be prompted to select a .ttf file, and its glyphs will be imported (and resampled to match the current Family metrics)

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Shortcuts

Shortcut | Action
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Actions
| Saves the currently edited mkfont file. Prompts a dialog if the file has never been saved before.
| Undo last action
| Redo last action
Navigation
| Previous nav state (should be the same as in a regular browser)
| Next nav state (should be the same as in a regular browser)
Selection
| Selects all glyphs currently displayed in the viewport.
| Clears the current selection
| Store the current selection as a shortcut.
| Restore the selection previously stored
| Appends the selection previously stored to the current selection