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Introduction

• Welcome to RoboFont!
• RoboFont design principles
• RoboFont features overview
• The pre-history of RoboFont
• The history of RoboFont ✗
• The UFO format

Workspace

• Workspace overview
• The drawing environment
• The scripting environment
• Appearance (Dark Mode)

Making fonts

• Accented glyphs
• Production names and final names
• Smart Sets
• Interpolation
• Preparing for Interpolation
• Kerning
• Variable fonts

Upgrading

• Changes from RoboFont 1.8 to 3
• Upgrading code to RoboFont 3
• Upgrading code to RoboFont 4
• RoboFab vs. FontParts APIs

Scripting

• Why scripting?
• FontParts
• vanilla
• Merz
• Subscriber
• Defcon Representations
• DrawBot
• Contours and Segments
• Glyph Math
• Pens
• Transformations
• Deprecated APIs
• Boolean Glyph Math
• Interactive tools
• The Observer Pattern
• Observers
• Window Controller

Extensions

• Extensions
• Introducing Mechanic 2
• Boilerplate Extension
• Recommendations for Building Extensions
• Recommendations for Publishing Extensions
• Publish extensions in the Extension Store