RoboFont 4.4

• Jump to python3.9! Be aware, some extensions might not work, check for updates.

• User Interface
  • Set SF Mono or a fixed pitch in input text editors
    • Add Glyph sheet
    • Add Smart Set glyph names
    • Inspector Glyph note
    • Character Set in the application preferences
  • Add support for “Save All UFO’s” alternate menu item.
  • Improve font toolbar Mark and Layers buttons.
  • Improve changing unicode dialog text.
  • Fix alert text when installing existing extensions.
  • Improve user interface to maximize compatibility with Ventura.
  • Reuse the fixed width font when a default font is used to typeset a string (like an emoji) in the Output window.
  • Improve toolbar items with menu presentations when the FontOverview or GlyphEditor windows are resized.
  • Add support for multi group name selection in a group sheet.
• Glyph Editor
  • Improve dragging lines by making their location more accurate on screen.
  • Move dragging lines while in Transform mode.
  • Use anchorTextColor for the name of the anchor if no color is set in anchor.color.
  • Anchor names cannot be empty but None.
  • Improve images visualization in different layers by not drawing the image info.
  • Fix glyph view stored italicAngle, it cannot be None.
  • Outlines
    • Improve snapping and rounding of points in the glyph editor.
    • Fix reselection of contour after a break.
    • Improve coloring of quadratic off curves points.
    • Support alt delete for multiple off curve points to snap to their on curve point.
    • Fix a bug when converting an off-curve only quadratic curve to bezier curves.
    • Improve start point while joining contour with the drawing tool.
    • Do not flag the glyph as loading while normalizing incoming data, otherwise trailing off curves are lost.
    • Don’t allow circular (components) references and send warning when trying todo so (even when renaming).
    • Preserve selection on setStartPoint.
    • Unsmooth on curve point while deleting off curve.
    • Improve deleting of glyphs used as components to avoid ghost references persist on disk.
    • Fix a ghost point bug on undo with a slice tool.
    • Skip check for trailing points in an empty contour.
    • Fix update margins after font info changed (italic angle).
    • When a left margin is set from python code, the selected paths will move accordingly.
    • Improve copy/paste of outlines data from other applications (Illustrator & Figma) into the glyph editor.
    • Set the default stroke color for tangent point the same as smooth stroke color.
  • Guidelines
    • If guideline angle is None get it from the xy combo.
    • Rename guideline menu items to Local and Global.
    • Make guidelines longer, a hypothetical length of 100000 (left & right) should be enough. A huge board might be used for logo drawing.
    • Improve guideline layer caching.
    • Send guidelines Changed notifications during undo/redo.
    • Enable show guidelines when adding a guideline.
    • Show guidelines in all layers only when Show Guidelines display option is enabled.
    • Add support for single guideline.locked.
  • Images
    • Set the default image sharpeness to 0.
    • Improve pasting image over existing image in glyph view.
    • Store image scale settings in the defaults.
    • Add glyph image bounds to the artboard edge calculations.
    • Improve image filters to avoid blurred images.
    • Unlock image after pasting image over glyph view
    • Display Image in glyph editor Diplay Options menu is enabled when image is dropped or pasted in the glyph view.
• Inspector
  • Improve speed of refreshing points inspector list.
  • Uncheck transformPane checkbox when a transformation is edited in the glyph editor.
• Space Center
  • Use the full suffix to populate the space center suffix menu.
  • Fix missing image factory used in spaceCenter.
  • Send spaceCenter key up when there is no glyph selection.
  • Improve MultiLine view when font info attributes are set to zero.
• Font Overview
  • Add warning when setting the default layer when ‘public.default’ is present.a
  • Set glyphOrder after layer.renameGlyph to update the CollectionView.
  • Fix removing layers when the layer is the active one.
  • Change order for sorting options.
  • Fix None mark color.
  • Add sort reset and support single sort option in the sort sheet.
  • In Single Window Mode, check if there is a glyph before handling layer set changes.
• Preferences
  • Add short cuts for default tools.
  • Improve help button for Extension tab in Preferences Window.
  • Rename glyphViewOncurvePointsSize to glyphViewOnCurvePointsSize (cap C).
  • Add force appearance support (follow the system light/dark color).
  • Improve updates on GlyphView appearance options.
  • Add preference defaultLayerName for new documents.
  • Add double click preference: glyphViewAllowDoubleClickToSwitchLayers.
  • Improve preferences Extension Sort Tools.
  • Add extensions directory attribute to the preference export.
• Smart Sets
  • Check if the smart list selection has a query to reset on font changed.
  • Improve storing smart sets with multiple documents are open.
  • Improve query reloads for smart sets.
  • Fix loading smart sets issue.
• Scripting Window
  • Fix major lag in using a CodeEditor in any window.
  • Improve line number view in CodeEditor.
  • Remove cmd+. cancel short cut as it crashes the app.
  • Fix storing “keep Visible” in the defaults for the output window.
  • Add API access to scripting window:
    • CurrentScriptingWindow()
    • AllScriptingWindows()
    • scriptingWindow.insertText(text)
    • scriptingWindow.setSelection((location, length))
• Extensions
  • Fix bug in installing extensions with start up scripts.
  • Fix bug in resolving extension version requirements.
• Generate Binaries
  • Improve autohint (ps and ttf) when fontmake is set as compiler.
  • Improve calculating hmtx table after a curve conversion.
  • Use otRound everywhere while compiling binaries.
  • Fix wrong attribute name in font compiler.
• APIs
  • Improve debugging information in log file.
  • Start an external changes observer when a font is loaded with no interface (shallow document)
  • Improve mojo.compile.stemhist
  • Include all the modules from the Python standard library.
  • Remove capital on stemhist.
  • Add support for inspectorTransformPaneAllowExternalTransformation.
  • Change Can Hide to Keep Visible in the output window.
  • Add RoboFont specific views as ezui objects, welcome mojo.ezuiViews! You’ll find:
    • GlyphSequence
    • GlyphPreview
    • CodeEditor
    • GlyphLineView
  • Send extra arguments to build in a windowController to maximize compatibility with ezui.
  • Adopt AppleScript for remote scripting and improve command line interface. Faster, more reliable.
  • Add support for tooltips in the script header.
  • Improve permission while installing the shell script.
  • Add readSmartSets in mojo.smartSet
  • Add support for glyph.copyToPasteboard and font/layer.copyGlyphsToPasteboard.
  • Log error when the extension defaults are unable to write to disk.
  • Remove deprecated glyph.index.
  • Add eventTool.shouldSendNotifications to hold notifications for other observers.
  • Add Timer, timerDecorator, timerFunction, profile, profileDecorator debug tools to mojo.tools.
  • Add support for setGlyphRecords and getGlyphRecords in a mojo.UI.MultiLineView.
  • Add support for mojo.UI.OpenInspectorWindow.
  • Add support for shouldAddSeparatorItem while building a menu with MenuBuilder.
  • Improve commandline install success message.
  • Add htmlView.getWKWebView() to get the webkit webview.
  • Add tiff2png to mojo.tools.
  • Add mojo.pipTools.
  • Raise the time out limit for the pip installer.
  • Fallback to font.asDefcon().dirty for font.hasChanged() when no document is set.
  • Add context manager support for mojo.UI.ProgressBar
  • Improve documentation in several mojo packages.
  • Shell command reports back to the external caller.
  • Improve copyToPasteboard doc string.
  • Subscriber
    • Improve subscribing to adjunct objects.
    • Improve subscriber coalescer when notification comes in very fast.
    • Fix serious bug in subscriber when the notification is sent from a continuous trigger like a slider
    • Improve fontInfoDidChangeValue subscriber info object.
    • Add support for glyphEditorDidChangeDisplaySettings.
    • Improve compatibility of subscriber instances with ezui and windowcontroller
    • Improve subscriber error message when overwriting a subscriber event.
  • Embedded Packages
    • Remove deprecated packages dialogKit and feaTools2.
    • Remove numpy as embedded package. Users will need to install it autonomously with pip installer.
    • Embed the charset_normalizer package.
    • Add fontFeatures as dependency.
• Appearence (Dark Mode)
  • Remove shadow in statusbar warning (improves dark mode).
  • Add notification + subscriber support when the application appearance changed.
  • Implement dark mode colors and auto switching.
  • Add appearanceColorKey to mojo.UI.
  • Change defaults for cell metrics color in dark mode.
• Update embedded packages.
• Update GNFUL list.

RoboFont 4.3

• Move to 10.12 as minimum requirement.
• Remove local FDK support.
• FontTools has moved to DesignSpaceDocument v5. Tools like Batch and Skateboard work with the new format, but they do not support discrete axes.
• Update internal GNFUL list.
• Keep unsaved glyphs into account while testing external changes. It avoids loosing data not saved on disk when reverting.
• Use the latest py2app. Add support for dark mode and new toolbars on macOS 11 and 12.
• Remove warning when the app file path contains a space.
• Fix About Window bug when AFDKO is not the compiler tool.
• Do not try to read glyphs from disk in closed file system if a font is not saved yet.
• Improve mojo.NumberEditText by converting the int/float to a string without thousands separator (locale dependant).
• Add support for ctrl ⌃ + alt ⌥ + delete to completely remove a glyph from a UFO (including layers, kerning and groups).
• Improve removing default layer.

• Force file type extension on filename when switching format in “Generate Font” sheet.

• Glyph Editor
  • Improve transform pane in Single Window Mode.
  • Improve opening empty glyphs with a very large units per em.
  • Improve pasting of PDF data.
  • Improve transform pane with selection when the glyph editor is not the first responder.
  • Improve joining contours two points with handles by un-smoothing the joined on curve point.
  • Improve “jump to glyph” dialog by splitting the search by all possible glyph name separators.
  • Fix converting selected on-curve-less quad curves.
  • Improve pasting glyph with images.
  • If the a component was selected and the base glyph is removed, the component selection does not linger in the glyph editor
  • Add glyphViewIgnoreFirstMouseDown key to Preferences Editor for Single Window Mode to ignore the first click in the glyph view.
  • Support shift + alt + click for converting a line to a quadratic segment.
  • Improve menu title: ‘Convert to Cubic’ without ‘Contour’.
  • Move down the selection CALayer in the glyph editor layers hierarchy. As a consequence, transform mode will be drawn on top of a selection.
  • Apply snapping to anchors and components when edited from the transform pane.
  • When an on-curve point part of a larger curve is deleted, RoboFont fits the curve and rounds the remaining handles based on the “Snap points to” value in the preferences.
  • Fix Transform Again in Single Window Mode.
  • Disable dragging margins outside the body of the glyph.
  • Adding a guideline with shift + g + click with an italic angle will apply the angle to the new guideline.
  • Display dragging lines with the italic angle if “Slant Point Coordinates” is on in the Preferences.
  • Add anchor popover accept slanted coordinates, again, if “Slant Point Coordinates” is on in the Preferences.
  • Point coordinates are typeset in italic if “Slant Point Coordinates” is on in the Preferences.
  • Display dragging lines with the italic angle.
  • Add a dragging constrain on the italic angle.
  • Close a glyph window on a removeGlyph event (either user interface or API) only when it shows the removed glyph.
  • Preserve first points while curve converting segments/contours.
  • While removing the last point of an open contour also remove all offcurves in a quadratic curve and unsmooth the last oncurve.
  • Dont add a quadratic off curve point when ⌘ command key is down
  • Register an undo change when adding a quadratic off curve
  • Improve snapping coordinates which are already whole numbers but represented as a float.
  • Break contour at the point when selection discontinues.
  • Don’t look for a layer or font with an orphan glyph to set the glyph window title.
• Font Overview
  • Improve smart set cell user interface.
  • Remove duplicates when creating a query based on glyph names.
  • Disable release mode checkbox when “Generate Features with fontTools” is on.
  • Don’t try to recover a glyph from disk with a KeyError (glyph does not exists).
• Space Center
  • Add Reset Beam to space center settings menu.
  • Add tickmarks and negative values for tracking and line height in a space center menu.
  • Set a space center edit text as first responder when opening a space center.
  • Improve display of non-existing glyphs.
• APIs
  • Update mojo.UI.GlyphWindowToPDF to support CALayers through merz.
  • Add ufoz as supported file type with mojo.UI.OpenFont.
  • Add OpenFonts into mojo.roboFont.
  • Add support for glyphEditorWillShowPreview and glyphEditorWillHidePreview in mojo.subscriber.
  • Improve mojo.UI.OpenScriptWindow to open new documents.
  • Warn when incorrect display settings are set with mojo.UI.setGlyphViewDisplaySettings.
  • Improve robofont shell command: print out an error message when the app is not found.
  • Add support for RFont.fontWindow() returning the font window.
  • Fix checking layer.getDisplayOption() for all
  • Raise a traceback when a script tries to remove the default layer.[STILL OPEN ISSUE: https://gitlab.com/typemytype/robofont/-/issues/452]
  • Improve fontParts info, groups, features and kerning getting the parent font object.
  • When calling the fdk tools seperatly use the EmbeddedFDK tools.
  • FDK and fontMake are always embedded, no need to validate the generate menu item.
  • Fix ttfautohint in fontMake by providing a string with options.
  • Add getGlyphViewScale in Single Window Mode.
  • In a tab view unselected views have no view.window().
• Docs
  • Massive reorganization of the subscriber docs. Easier to share single methods with HTML anchors.
  • General improvement on the mojo.UI docs page: deeper hierarchy, categories, overall review of docstrings
  • When RoboFont fails completely the error message points to a page on RoboFont documentation.
• Inspector
  • Increase text box size for auto naming sheet to display long glyph names.
  • Persist the collapsed state of the inspector contour list.
• Scripting Window
  • Reload operation in scripting window are now undoable.
  • Improve closing empty Python script documents. No prompt if the scripting window is empty.
  • Disallow opening scripts in tabs when opening from scripting menu.
• Preferences
  • Improve shell help text inside a preference window.
  • Improve setting shortcut with alternate menu items.
  • Fix toggling on/off blue values with a preference shortcut. It was shadowing the guidelines display option.
  • Add Jump To Layer with preference hot key.
• Font Info
  • Add Omit Mac Names in RoboFont tab in the font info sheet. The setting is accessible in the font.lib["com.typemytype.robofont.generateOmitMacNames"]. The lib expects a bool

RoboFont 4.2

• Raise the minimum required OS version to 10.11.
• Move to layer manager to a popover, and remove layer from the Inspector.
• Add option to sync glyph layers width, markColor and unicode.
• UI adjustments on Monterey
• Check file structure before sending it to ufonormalizer, do not validate ufoz.
• Store the size of the preference editor window.
• Save test installed fonts to a folder inside the application folder.
• Font Overview
  • Delete all selected smart item with the action menu.
  • Disable undo when setting markcolor for a lot of glyphs, pref key markColorUndoMaxGlyphCount.
  • Add match as option to filter component and anchor names.
• Glyph Editor
  • Anchors validation should only remove control characters.
  • Allow triple click to jump to a component with alt down.
  • Enable the correct blue zone layer according the display settings.
  • Measurement info the tab indents must be relative to the point size.
  • Fix cuttoff pdf pastboard data.
  • Improve switching with preview key down.
  • Add support for preview key in single window mode while selecting in a font overview.
  • Fix bug when moving and closed single point contour.
  • Fix bug while removing the last segment.
  • Fix bug when ß is uppered to SS in jump to glyph.
  • Rename BezierDrawingTools to DrawingTools
  • Use the “glyphViewCanZoomWhileDragging” preference setting.
  • Highlight show offcurve on top of oncurves.
  • Add “middleground” public layer.
  • Snap guideline angle with shift to a multiple of 45°.
  • Show first point differently from the contour direction symbol.
  • Improve displaying curve length with italic angle and slanted coordinates.
• Space Center
  • Improve space center input has changed with the field editor.
  • Add support for /?@background.
  • Live updating space center with new pref keys: spaceCenterMaxGlyphCountForSendingEvents for events and spaceCenterMaxGlyphCountForLiveUpdating for editing.
  • Add slider for line space and tracking in space center menu + alt to round these values.
• Preferences
  • Improve validating preferences input controls.
• APIs
  • Add glyph key in subscriber contextual menu notification info.
  • Add glyph key in right mouse down in font overview contextual notification info.
  • Add disableSubscriberEvents with statement to disable all subscribers.
  • Fix subscriber missing event names.
  • Add ExtensionBundle.currentBundle() to retreive the extension bundle.
  • openInterface should create a new document when the font is set to None.
  • Add mojo.subscriber.listRegisteredSubscribers.
  • Adding glyph.readingErrors().

RoboFont 4.1

• Improvements on Subscriber docs.
• Text editors now use performTextFinderAction instead of performFindPanelAction. Text search with cmd+f, cmd+g and cmd+e improved
• Improve Preference Editor error messages
• Improve toolbar style for a font window on Big Sur and Monterey
• Font Overview
  • Change toggling fontOverview short cut: alt cmd e in single window mode
  • Remove focus ring in favor of secondary selection color when the view is not the first responder
• Glyph Editor
  • Tons of small display fixes
  • Glyph editor “Measurement Info” display option improved
  • Point coordinates displayed with italic values when the italic slant is active
  • Added glyphViewMetricsHeightInfoAttribute key in the preferences editor. You can now control the height of the white board in a glyph editor
  • Adding support for the indexesShouldFollowContour preference. If True, point indices of new contours in a glyph will not start from 0. Useful for hinting, it could be helpful for interpolation too
  • Join selection: it allows additional selected points which are not start and end points
  • The guideline angle knob now rotates in the same direction as the guide it edits
  • General improvements on quadratic curves (interaction and visualization)
  • Draw guidelines in the background layers
  • Improve cmd keep handle-in-the-same-direction dragging
  • Delete point on shift down reverse to preserve curve preference settings
• Space Center
  • “xHeight cut” display option in Space Center renamed “Cut Off“, now editable with cmd down when no glyph is selected
  • Improve suffix contextual menu when glyphs are added
  • Adding support for space center underline selection, see preference editor: spaceCenterSelectionStyle
• APIs
  • Adding support for glyph.autoContourOrder()
  • Adding support for setting sort descriptors in a collection view
  • Load all glyph before using font.holdChanges with statement
  • mojo.setDefault will validate the incoming value for a key if there is a validator

RoboFont 4.0

• Using layers to drawing!!
• Adding merz!!
• Adding Subscriber!!
• Font Overview
  • Since full quadractics are supported don’t check and convert quadractic curves anymore.
  • Use esc or cmd + . to reset the font overview query.
  • Copy glyph width only when destination glyph is a template glyph.
  • Improved the UI for creating smart sets.
• Glyph Editor
  • Support for full quadractic curves.
  • Improved add extreme points.
  • Improved zoom to mouse position.
  • Fixed bug in selection.
  • Selects automatically images when dropped on the canvas.
  • Does not draw drag lines when in transform mode.
  • Improved glyph editor scroll.
  • Improved rounding while slicing.
  • Reset selection path after undo.
  • Improved drawing while converting line to curve.
  • Add support for 45° contraint with the measurement tool.
  • Improve outline errors and remove some errors in favor of Glyph Nanny.
  • Add a pdf copy paste boardboard for improved interaction with other external drawing tools.
• Space Center
  • Use the embedded defconFont.kerning.find() instead of flat kerning.
• Preferences
  • Improved italic angle support.
  • Adding colors for slice.
  • Add “add guideline” hot key preference.
  • Disable old style drawing with glyphViewDisableDrawNotifications, as default this is False.
• APIs
  • Set a run callback optionally in a CodeEditor.
  • Disable pip installer search until it gets resolved.
  • Update embedded packages.
  • Adding identifiers (i.e., com.developerName.toolName) to addGlyphEditorSubview.
  • Fixed glyph editor subscription bug.
  • Adds glyphViewDisableDrawNotifications in the preferences editor.
  • Add .asFontParts() and .asDefcon() to all font objects for convienient switching.
  • Don’t add QTKit anymore.
  • Adds selection and measurement notifications in the glyph.
  • Added documentation for registerSubscriberEvent.
  • selection.hasSelection() forced to be a bool
  • Add Doodle.ImageSize factory.

RoboFont 3.5b

• Support for Big Sur Warning: super slow. Only available as beta, read more.
• Font Overview
  • Improve arrow up and down in Smart Set lists.
  • Allow empty selection in a Smart Set list – used when selection and query don’t match.
  • Use the notification to catch selection changes in a Smart Set list.
• Glyph Editor
  • Don’t use a composite operation when drawing coordinates.
  • Remove all selected objects when swapping layers.
  • Improved joining contours.
  • Fixed joining same contour jump.
  • Move slice with alt down while slicing.
  • Always call draw preview notifications, even for empty glyphs.
  • Join contours with the Bezier Tool by alt + clicking on a different contour.
  • Rename contextual menu item Reverse to Reverse Contours
• APIs
  • Remove dummy callback for RGlyph.rasterize().
  • Fixed stamping data with the new auto closing UFOReader.
  • Fixed typo while opening a font with OpenFont.
  • Adding spaceCenter.getOffset() and spaceCenter.setOffset((x, y)).
  • Adding support for font generation with fontmake.
  • Set clear argument in FontParts’ newGlyph to True by default.
  • Use UFOReader.ufoFormatVersionTuple to compare UFO version.
  • Adding cffsubr and notarizing it.
  • Improved support for asyncio.
  • Add arguments to font.testInstall, similar to font.generate.
  • CoreServices.LSGetApplicationForURL is deprecated.
  • Improved glyph.autoUnicodes() by adding support for uniXXXX and uXXXXX names.
  • Draw background color when no font is set in a multilinescrollview.
  • Adding multiline.setShouldDrawGlyph(True/False).
  • Improving font.openInterface.
• Miscellaneous
  • Set deployment target to macOS 10.10.
  • Use the real path when installing extensions.
  • Rename kern groups to MMK prefixes when converting back to UFO2.
  • Print a traceback when an observer fails.
  • Adding missing hot keys for blue zones and beam in Space Center.
  • Fixed the improved extracting unicode from glyph name.
  • Rename Application Help to RoboFont Help.
  • Fixed generating from layer getting the correct components from the correct layer.
  • Use the new buffer offset for the kerning preview.
  • Reset the glyphset while checking for external changes.
  • formatVersion could be None.
  • Convert number to string before setting it into a control.
  • Reset glyphset after a closing the file system.
  • Fixed bug when saving back to UFO2 and resetting the glyphset object.
  • Update internal test for external changes.
  • Fixed bug when opening the Help Window.
  • Changed link to the end user license.
  • Always use the latest GLIF XML version to display external changes.
  • Improved adding tabs in Font Window, Glyph Window, Single Mode Font Window, Space Center, Feature Window.
  • Ignore tabbing for Extension Builder, Help, Output, Inspector and preferences.
  • Improved retrieval of all extensions.
  • Use the notification to catch selection changes in a Smart Set list.
  • Add option in font info sheet to use fontTools to generate OpenType features.

RoboFont 3.4

• Preferences
  • Adding new default setting spaceCenterWaterFallSizes.
  • Renaming sections: Character Set → Font Overview, Menus → Short Keys.
  • Adding new defaults to adjust glyph cell colors in the Font Overview.
  • Adding a search box to the Short Keys section.
  • Input of the Glyph Views’s artbox size should not be continuous.
  • Adding point label colors to the defaults.
  • Adding new defaults: glyphViewContinueDrawingAtPointStrokeColor and glyphViewContinueCloseContourAtPointStrokeColor.
  • Adding UI for spaceCenterMaxGlyphsForLiveUpdate in Preferences > Space Center.
  • Adding glyphViewMininumVisibleZoom to the Preferences Editor.
  • Adding new default setting defaultFontInfoAttributes: a dict of font info values for new fonts.
  • Adding new color defaults for glyph cell indicators: glyphCellLayerIndicatorColor, glyphCellSkipExportIndicatorColor, glyphCellNoteIndicatorColor.
  • Adding new default for background color in Glyph View textboxes: glyphViewDefaultTextBoxBackgroundColor.
  • Changed default glyphViewCanZoomWhileDragging to False.
  • Adding option to remember input history in Preferences > Space Center > Appearance.
• Font Overview
  • Improved Smart Sets panel with support for font-level sets, drag and drop copying, nested folders, contextual menu, etc.
  • Improved reloading of query-based Smart Sets.
  • Adding glyph cell indicators for glyphs in the skip export list.
  • Improved glyph cell display in Dark Mode using custom colors.
  • Selecting a Smart Set folder combines all child queries with inclusive OR.
  • Adding UI for skip export glyphs in the Font Info sheet.
  • Use the new defconAppKit color subclassing: glyphCollectionGridColor, glyphCollectionBackgroundColor, glyphCollectionInsertionLocationColor, glyphCollectionInsertionLocationShadowColor.
  • Set different priority for toolbar items when resizing the window.
  • Test invalid UFO xml and display glyph cell indicators for invalid glyphs.
• Extensions
  • Adding pycExclude argument to ExtensionBundle to allow some files as .py when generating .pyc extensions.
  • Show a warning when an extension short key is already taken.
  • Adding syntax highlight colors for code samples in markdown extension docs.
  • Sorting of extensions in the Extensions menu is now case insensitive.
  • Fixed misleading message when uninstalling an extension.
  • Ignore Icon? and .DS_Store files when hashing extensions.
• Space Center
  • Fixed disappearing letters in Waterfall mode.
  • Fixed selection in right-to-left centered text.
  • Reverse the x mouse metrics when dragging in right-to-left text.
  • Show a ‘needs update’ indicator if the Space Center has more glyphs than defined in spaceCenterMaxGlyphsForLiveUpdate.
  • Adding option to display images in the Space Center.
  • Don’t hold first click when a Space Center control has focus.
  • Move the Space Center’s top line for easier adjustment with a custom script.
  • Recalculate the Multiline view when the external frame changes.
  • Improved Space Center auto-completion with Shift + Enter to insert /n linebreaks.
  • Adding input text history to store used preview strings.
• Glyph Editor
  • Improved image scaling.
  • Improved reselecting images after undo.
  • Improved rounding of center point while rotating.
  • Allow continuation of bezier drawing at the starting point of a contour.
  • On free scale map with Shift down, scale x and y values to the same value.
  • Fixed bug when converting splines to single off curve cubic contours.
  • Fixed bug which deleted a contour for equal amounts of off curve and on curve points selected.
  • Don’t continue any dragging action when a margin drag is found.
  • Don’t smooth starting point and end point of open contours.
  • Post a glyph width changed notification when the left margin is dragged.
  • Check duplicated hover start point when points are close together.
  • Improved shift dragging scale transformation.
  • Improved crosshair cursor origin position when dragging selected segments.
  • Fixed crash when removing a glyph with a glyph window open.
  • Adding display option to show/hide images.
• APIs
  • Adding new notifications: fontWindowWillOpen and fontWindowDidOpen.
  • Adding support for public.skipExportGlyphs when generating font files.
  • Adding a callback to completely ignore all events.
  • Fixed bug in glyph metrics math and added tests.
  • Adding savedState to mojo.drawingTools.
  • Adding center argument to transform, rotate, skew and scale in mojo.drawingTools.
  • Fixed setSelection and getSelection in MultiLineView.
  • Make imagePNGData available in mojo.tools.
  • Improved SpaceCenterWindow.setFont.
  • Add font-level Smart Set support to mojo.
  • Move Smart Sets API to mojo.smartSet.
  • Add support for nested folders to the Smart Sets API.
  • Overwriting FontParts selectedContours: contours with a single point selection are also selected.
  • Improved documentation for font.generate.
  • Adding support for generating fonts from layers with font.generate(layerName).
  • Change obj.dirty state for FontParts wrapper decorator – fixes for example dirty states of glyphs in font.round().
  • Adding glyph.selectedBPoints.
  • Component base glyph must always be present.
  • Adding a pip installer to install Python packages from the PyPI database.
  • Updating internal GNFUL list.
  • Improved traceback message when compiling fails at glyph level.
  • Improved cocoaDrawingTools.
  • Adding optional validation when setting defaults: setDefault(key, value, validate=True).
  • Removed deprecated lib.baseObjects.
  • Improved conversion of UFO3 kerning groups to UFO2.
  • Adding support for selecting individual glyph parts in EditingTool subclasses.
  • FontParts templateKeys and templateGlyphs must be tuples.
  • Adding addedUndoItem notification.
  • Adding scriptsMenuChanged notification.
  • Check if double-click callback comes from Space Center before sending it out.
  • Removing woffTools from embedded modules. If you need it, use the pip installer.
  • Improved Cocoa drawing tools’ drawGlyph to handle very shallow glyph objects.
  • Switching to master versions of fontMath and mutatorMath.
  • Adding support for guideline.selected.
  • Check incoming queries in Smart Sets to make sure they are valid.
• Miscellaneous
  • Hard runtime notarisation and code-signing.
  • Adding notarizing entitlements.
  • Fixed segmented toolbar control.
  • Improved font tests and added new ones.
  • Adding normalization of invalid groups.
  • Check if .ufo files are supported by any other application.
  • Make the unicode rule editor input work on macOS 10.15.
  • Stamp disk data after saving when shouldNormalizeOnSave is on.
  • Improved lib undo.
  • Improved Kern Center: up/down arrow keys select next/previous pair from list.
  • Don’t set a target for a menu item when no callback is given.
  • Wrap building of menu items and short keys in a try/except statement.
  • Fine tuned undo in empty glyphs.
  • Change the separator color in the Accordion View.
  • Change the documentation help URL.
  • Change Accordion View collapsed state default keys.
  • Add isPaneVisible, showPane and togglePane to AccordionView.
  • Fixed bug in dealloc and removing view from superview.
  • Fixed cache bug which prevented nested folders in the Scripts menu from updating.
  • Wrap custom observers in a try / except statement to catch errors.
  • Fixed bug when removing the default layer.
  • Fixed bug when reverting changes to removed layers
  • Fixed bug which caused unwanted changes in a Space Center’s display options when pressing a tick mark (grave).
  • An Inspector window should not have focus on any input field on the first opening.
  • Fixed bug when checking student licenses.
  • Improved reading broken .glif XML (don’t crash but show a nice warning).

RoboFont 3.3

• Glyph Editor
  • Adding support for individual guideline colors and anchor colors.
  • Snap anchors to on-curve points while dragging.
  • Improved display of anchor coordinates.
  • Move anchors inside empty glyphs when spacing.
  • Keep constraints with Shift down while skewing.
  • Clear the whole glyph when copying as component.
  • Fixed component sheet when adding a component to a layer.
  • Improved display of dashed lines while dragging.
  • Fixed bug when transforming orphan glyphs.
  • After a reselect, restore the current mouse down point.
  • Remove identifier when joining a single contour.
  • Don’t remove the identifiers when joining two contours.
  • Ignore open contours on union (booleanOperations).
  • Improved preserving point smoothness when deleting points.
• Font Overview
  • Preserve glyph order after removing a glyph without pressing Alt.
  • Press Ctrl + delete to convert to template glyph and remove all layers.
  • Keep the glyph order after external changes.
  • Adding support for creating missing glyphs when sorting by character set.
  • Prevent overwriting glyph names in list mode.
• Space Center
  • Adding tracking to the Space Center.
  • Improved single line drawing in Space Center.
  • Set correct layer while setting a font in the Space Center.
  • Improved modifying empty glyphs behavior in Space Center.
  • Update the Glyph Line View in a Space Center after setting a font.
  • Improved kern selection in kerning view in RTL.
  • Improved switching between LTR and RTL in the Space Center.
• Inspector
  • Adding a new Guideline panel to the Inspector.
  • Improved switching between global and local guidelines using the Inspector.
  • Improved color cells in Inspector window.
• Kern Center
  • Allow using single glyphs when creating kerning pairs in the Kern Center.
  • Prefer group kerning when adding a fresh pair, look up in existing groups.
  • Don’t allow duplicated glyphs in kerning groups.
• Scripting Window
  • Improved closing empty scripting document.
  • When the Scripting Window is empty, reset the change count.
• Preferences
  • Adding glyphViewCanZoomWhileDragging preference setting.
  • Fixing typo in PyDEBackgroundColor preference setting.
  • Moving background colors for index labels in the Glyph View (point, segment, contour, anchor, component) to the Preferences.
  • Escape unicode character descriptions in the Preferences Editor.
  • Ignore empty menu shortcuts in the Preferences Editor.
• Extensions
  • Adding support for expiration date in ExtensionBundle and ExtensionBuilder.
  • Adding support for Markdown files (.md) as source format for extension docs.
  • Adding support for custom style.css when building markdown extension docs.
  • Don’t show a popup when the user cancelled the installation of an extension.
  • Improved extension banners.
  • Improved picking the correct Python version for extensions.
  • Adding folder naming scheme lib.x.y to support different versions of Python in compiled .pyc extensions.
• APIs
  • Upgrading embedded Python to 3.7. Warning: all binary extensions (MetricsMachine, Prepolator) will become invalid and must be upgraded.
  • Adding support for drag & drop in a Canvas view.
  • Updating embedded AFDKO.
  • Switching to WKWebView as the default HTMLView.
  • Adding support for notification banners in mojo.UI.PostBannerNotification.
  • Adding RGlyph.holdChanges() to hold and release all notifications.
  • Adding showProgress keyword to font.testIntall.
  • Adding centerInView for StatusInteractivePopUpWindow.
  • Improved point labels: tuples, use point.clearLabels() to remove them.
  • Adding allowsMovingMargins for a subclass of the EditingTool.
  • Make dragTransformMatrix available in a subclass of the EditingTool.
  • Fixing ufo2fdk’s glyph name normalizer.
  • Improved fontParts and mojo dialogs.
  • Adding GlyphSequenceEditText and splitText to mojo.UI.
  • Adding docstrings.
  • Removing >>> from docstrings.
  • Improved FontParts glyph name in font logic for template glyphs.
  • Return tuples for font.templateSelectedGlyphNames.
  • Adding support for FontParts’ fileStructure argument.
  • Change applicationDidFinishLaunching_ to applicationWillFinishLaunching_.
  • Switching to experimental vanilla branch with support for auto layout.
  • Embedding markdown module.
  • Improved support for glyphWindow.setGlyph(glyph).
  • Improved FontParts’ hasOverlaps function.
  • Adding tracking areas to Canvas to support mouseEntered and mouseExited events.
  • Embedding fontmake.
  • Adding support for pytest in the Scripting Window.
  • Adding renameGlyph test.
  • Add getQueryResult for SmartSet objects to retrieve the result of a query.
  • Read .py files as utf-8 to parse the menu title name.
  • Removing __future__ and fontTools.Miscellaneouspy23.
  • Removing all PY2 and PY3 variables.
  • Change basestring to str (py3).
  • Change unichr to chr (py3).
  • Adding a helper to trace where a print statement is coming from.
  • Don’t embed standalone ufoLib anymore, as this could lead to errors in extensions.
  • Improved docstrings for getDisplayOption and setDisplayOption.
  • Improved error message when an alias cannot be resolved.
  • Improved and fixed layer.setDisplayOptions(), must be a dict now.
  • Add the FontParts document to the document controller even when no UI is provided, so it ends up in AllFonts and CurrentFont.
  • Switching to FontTools’ otRound to round coordinates.
  • font.glyphOrder changes automatically when a glyph is renamed by notification.
  • font.glyphOrder must return a tuple.
  • Adding glyphs to stemHist callback.
  • GlyphPreview can preview anything that looks like a glyph object and works with a pen.
  • Use glyph objects to check if a collection view contains a glyph.
  • Don’t iterate and change a dict at the same time while renaming in kerning and groups.
  • Raise KeyError when the glyph name is not found.
  • Ignore empty glyphs in font.bounds.
  • Adding allObservers to mojo.events.
  • Adding internalFontClasses to mojo.roboFont.
  • Updating the code editor’s lexer to Python 3.
  • Improved characterToGlyphName with a fallback.
  • Improved wrapping of a defcon.Font in a RFont.
  • Try to convert command line tool arguments to unicode.
  • Renaming UIdocument to shallowDocument in FontParts object.
  • Improved code editor when no lexer is set.
  • Improved generation of kerning features.
• Bugs
  • Fixing AccordionView display bug in macOs 10.14.
  • Fixing issue with jumping to line number in a code editor.
  • Set the unicode formatter correctly (internal macOS change).
  • Don’t crash hard when something fails while drawing in a multiline scrollview.
  • Canvas now sends the correct pasteboard types.
• Miscellaneous
  • Improved extracting data from AGL/GNFUL lists.
  • Adding XML glyph diff for External Changes window.
  • Prevent Open script menu items if the shortcut key is already taken.
  • Improved setting mark color swatches in search fields.
  • Allow loading arbitrary external data (for example external help files).
  • Improved preserving identifiers while using undo/redo.
  • Remove identifiers from removed points while inserting a point.
  • Reset selection on transformation of a FontParts object.
  • Adding a friendly warning when deleting a Smart Set.
  • Improved required font.info settings.
  • Improved Revert to Saved dialog.
  • Build template glyphs only if they don’t exist yet.
  • Improved shell script so that the application file can be renamed.
  • No release mode for .ttf export.
  • Switching Accordion View to a flat UI style.
  • Fixed external save inside RF to prevent an External Changes pop-up window when saving from the menu.
  • Fixed layer order when jumping to next layer in Space Center.
  • Set layer color based on the Preferences settings (foreground and background only).
  • Set modification date in internal document when saving programmatically.
  • Don’t use the AppKit localization.
  • Remove guideline lib keys when removing the guide.
  • Improved tests.
  • Move anchors in empty glyphs when spacing.
  • Update the file browser only when it becomes visible (RoboFont becomes active).
  • Set auto save name for HTML window.
  • Renaming ambiguous menu title: New Sets Folder.
  • Fixing conversion of groups with group names identical to UFO2.
  • The application is now notarized as required by Apple for macOS 10.15+.

RoboFont 3.2

• Font Overview
  • Show layer contents even if a glyph is not present in the default layer.
  • Show all glyphs in all layers, even if they are not listed in the glyph order.
  • Alt+delete a glyph will remove the glyph from all layers.
  • Copy unicodes when pasting a glyph in a glyph cell.
  • font.glyphOrder has precedence over sort descriptors.
  • Don’t update the window header when the saving path could be None.
• Glyph Editor
  • Improved drawing speed.
  • Improved display of anchors, labels, component info box, outline errors, anchor point coordinates.
  • Improved updating components when the base glyph has changed.
  • Improved measurements on open paths.
  • Move image when dragging side bearings.
  • Adding option to copy metrics in Layer popup window (shortcut key l).
  • Improved copy and swap to layers.
  • Draw layer image before checking if the glyph is empty.
  • Improved setting of default layers and updating related views.
  • While setting glyph.width, flag glyph as changed if it’s a template and if the width is the same.
  • Fixing flipping unicodes when flipping glyph layers.
  • Fixing drawing image from layer with an alpha value.
  • Fixing shift image when changing left margin.
  • Reuse/cache NSAttributedString and NSBezierPath objects.
  • Don’t update ruler views everytime the glyph view is refreshed.
  • Fixing font size issue and drawing of measurements.
  • Improved drawing of guidelines and end points.
• Space Center
  • Update Space Center input field when toggling beam with a script.
  • Improved Space Center updating and performance.
• Code editor
  • Improved emoji support.
  • Improved auto completion.
  • Disable auto replacements in a code editor.
  • Check if a file exists when opening the file browser in the Scripting Window.
• Preferences
  • Adding glyphViewDrawLayerBackgroundColor to disable layer background color.
  • Adding normalizeWriteModTimes default option to normalize UFOs on save.
  • Adding checkExternalChanges as a default setting.
  • Preferences Editor requires fallback for shortcuts like " → \" and \ → \\.
  • Fixing preferences export.
  • Fixing Preferences Editor.
• Extensions
  • Removing old Mechanic methods from ExtensionBundle.
  • Adding icon for .mechanic files.
  • Improved Extension Bundle validation.
  • Adding support for requirements and specific versions in ExtensionBundle.
  • Load extension before setting keyboard shortcuts.
  • Load exension bundle from the extension object instance.
• UI & UX
  • Glyph View and Feature Editor now have a status bar instead of placard scrollviews.
  • Improved slider in menus.
  • Improved UI for 10.14.
  • New icons for Dark Mode.
  • Fixing display issues in the AccordionView.
  • Improving steppers.
• Core
  • Updating internal packages.
  • Improvements for macOS 10.14.
  • Moving ufoLib to fontTools.ufoLib.
  • Switching to psautohint instead of the AFDKO autohint.
  • Removed embedded library designspaceDocument (now included in fontTools).
  • Huge speed bump in generating font binaries!
  • Adding tests.
  • Adding getGlyphViewHotKey and setGlyphViewHotKey methods.
  • Adding spaceCenter.getLineHeight() and spaceCenter.setLineHeight(value).
  • Improved reading of .fea files with non-ascii characters in comments.
  • Adding support for Single File UFOs (UFOz).
  • Removing py2 related code.
  • Adding uharfbuzz as an embedded package.
  • Set objc to verbose, so tracebacks are comming back.
  • Print out the error message when executing tests.
  • Don’t use patterns to make gradients.
  • Don’t cache color gradients, keep a reference to the color instead.
  • Fixing copy of glif XML (lxml uses single quotes instead of double quotes).
  • Also normalize when the font.save(path) is None.
  • Solving deprecated warning and use CoreServices instead of LaunchServices.
• FontParts
  • Fixing call to super class method in fontParts.
  • Improved RFont.newGlyph() so it tries to keep the same object if the glyph already exists.
  • Adding glyph.selectedPoints and deprecate glyph.selection.
  • Use allFonts as keyword in SelectFont.
  • Update components when renaming glyphs.
  • Improved setting unicode for glyph.
  • Improved subclassing of FontParts objects.
  • Improved contour.removeSegment() on open paths with a trailing off curve.
  • Improved warning when provided unicode is not valid.
  • Adding flatKerning to fontParts.
  • Don’t overwrite setStartSegment.
  • Set file path in fontParts.RFont.save when the path is different.
  • Reset selection after transforming a FontParts object.
• Observers etc.
  • Set index of active tool when building the toolbar item in the Glyph Window.
  • Send refresh notification when labels are edited.
  • Fixing unwanted change notifications.
  • Adding applicationScreenChanged to base tool.
  • Improved sending notification while holding the preview key.
  • Wrap drawing notification in a try/except statement.
  • Fixing typo in notification: will must be did…
• Bugs
  • Fixing hidden long callback.
  • Fixing error on deleting points.
  • Fixing issues when setting Character Set Preferences.
  • Fixing checkbox selection issue in the Inspector Panel.
  • Fixing error when compiling TrueType fonts.
  • Fixing cursor issues while changing screens with different resolutions.
  • Fixing issue with macOS numbers localization in Space Center.
  • Fixing bug while converting colors to hex notation.
  • Fixing bug with split views in Scripting Window.
  • Fixing autohint bug.
  • Fixing issue while removing glyphs when removing from kerning and groups is enabled.
  • Fixing issue with remove overlap in booleanOperations.
  • Fixing changing shortcut when there is an alternate menu item.
  • Fixing problems with autosaving.
  • Fixing glyphWindow.setGlyphViewScale by force setting the scale value.
  • Fixing crash when dragging the column headers of the list view in Font Overview.
  • Fixing issue when restoring a document.
  • Fixing bug when getting external changes.

RoboFont 3.1

• Any layer can be the top layer (removed restriction to have foreground at the top).
• Added new keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Cmd+O to reveal the log file in Finder.
• Improved Bezier drawing tool.
• Copy paste also copies glyph.width, and uses it when the destination glyph is empty.
• Don’t set image attributes in glyph.lib if there is no image.
• Scripting
  • Improved support for contour.removePoint.
  • EditingTool is easier to subclass and disable editing while keeping selection.
  • Added support for custom menu items in any contextual menu.
  • Added ufoProcessor (successor of designSpaceDocument) to the embedded packages.
  • Updates to ufoLib to allow fine-grained control over UFO validation.
  • Fixing extractEvent by removing tuple values.
  • Added mojo.tools.roboFontUnitTest to unit test inside RF.
  • Added RFont.hasChanged().
• Space Center
  • Send out CurrentGlyphChanged notification.
  • Fixing bug in Space Center when using /? and /!
• Preferences
  • Menu Preferences now shows a warning for duplicated keyboard shortcuts.
  • Added a color preference for echo paths.
  • Added new Preferences settings:
    • spaceCenterMaxGlyphsForLiveUpdate
    • loadFontGlyphLimit
    • defaultGuidelineShowMeasurment
    • defaultGuidelineMagnetic
    • ufoLibReadValidate
    • ufoLibWriteValidate
• Fixing reading .enc files.
• Fixing importing binary PS font files with control characters in the name recods.

RoboFont 3.0

• Uses UFO3 as its native source format.
• Written entirely in Python 3.
• Lots of internal rewrites.
• Opens UFO files with lightning speed.
• Replaces roboFab with fontParts.
• Layers are more independent.
• Components refer to glyphs in the same layer.
• Validating and converting incoming UFO2 data:
  • Removes duplicates in kern groups.
  • Removes glyphs that occur in too many kern groups.
  • Converts RoboFont 1+ lib keys to UFO3 objects.
• Glyph View
  • Use Cmd + Shift to add a diagonal constrain for line segments.
  • Use Alt + click on a line segment to convert it to a curve. Click near an on-curve point to select the off-curve point.
• Space Center
  • Speed improvements.
  • Show guidelines and blues.
  • New input syntax: /<glyphName>@<layerName> to select a glyph from a given layer. For example: /A@background.
• Scripting
  • Moving fontWillGenerate and fontDidGenerate to a more internal level, so it sends a notification when generating with a script.
  • Speeding up print() statement.
  • Adding Cmd + period to stop a script (like in DrawBot, thanks Just!!!).
  • Autocomplete ([{}]) in the code editor.
  • Adding glyphConstruction as a module!!
  • Renaming sys_path_override to external_packages – a folder to overwrite embedded packages.
  • Moving lots of internal modules to mojo.*.
  • Update of internal packages to UFO3, py3 and much more.
  • Adding RFont.hasInterface().
• Preferences
  • Use drag-and-drop to sort Miscellaneous Colors.
  • New raw Preferences Editor (press Alt while opening the RoboFont menu item).
  • New Preferences > Menus section, listing all menu items and keyboard shortcuts.

• Changes from RoboFont 1.8 to 3

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RoboFont 1.8.4

• Updating internal packages.

RoboFont 1.8.1

• Fixing the auto-updater.

RoboFont 1.8

• Updating internal packages.
• Use logging for logs, saved to Application Support/RoboFont/robofont.log.
• Adding spaceCenterSelectionChanged notification.
• Show a warning when adding glyphs with already existing unicodes.
• Show an outline error when smooth points aren’t really smooth.
• Adding support for swipes and other events to mojo.canvas.
• New Space Center notifications: spaceCenterDrawBackgroundLineView and spaceCenterDrawLineView
• Ignore Components menu when there are too many items.
• Adding font and glyph metrics to guides measurements.
• Improving Inspector transform pane input fields.
• Ignore autoSavePath on Preferences export.
• A scripting window can become a floating window.
• Adding sys_path_override to the RoboFont application support folder, to overwrite embedded packages and modules. Be careful!

RoboFont 1.7

• Glyph Editor
  • Glyph View should feel a lot faster (almost 4 times faster on 10.10).
  • Optimized behavior between mouse and arrow keys point modifications.
  • Making the guides popup menu a bit wider.
  • Move multiple tangent points selection according to their angle.
  • Fixing background color bug in Preview mode.
  • A glyph note can be None, so don’t copy it.
  • Fixing measurement in layer glyphs.
  • Changing behavior of the arrow keys based on if the cap lock key is down. When cap lock is down, the arrow keys behave like a mouse.
  • Fixing a slicing issue.
  • Fixing disappearing view on small zoom levels.
  • Rename glyph is possible when the glyph already exists as a template glyph.
  • Improving off curve while modifying an open contour.
  • Fixing starting point issue while setting extreme points.
  • Improving undo.
  • Improving drawing tool.
  • Fixing bug when pulling BCP out of two overlapping on-curve points.
  • Improving color overlay for images on 10.11.
  • Prevent circular component references.
  • Support jumping to first and last glyphs with home and end key.
  • Optionally disable snapping of off-curve points.
  • Show contextual guide menu when the guide is locked.
  • Draw end points of open paths differently.
  • Dragging a guide with an italic angle if there is one set.
  • Adding clear guides to contextual menu.
  • Adding skew + scale for scaling italics. Use “shift lock” to enable. An italicAngle must be set.
  • Show transform info while transforming.
  • Improving transform, more focus on the proportional constrain.
• Font Overview
  • Support for mark colors (as color swatches) in the rule editor.
  • Ignore template flag when importing empty glyphs from a binary font.
  • Improving checks in fonts with quadratic curves.
  • Improving group sheet to make it more flexible.
  • Update glyph cell representation when a layer is removed.
  • The Font Overview’s search query should not change while show/hide the Find bar.
  • Adding support for displaying big unicodes in Space Center and glyph cells.
  • Improving selection in Font Overview.
  • Adding a new notification glyphCollectionDraw, sent when redrawing the ice cube glyph view. Be careful and don’t draw heavy stuff. Cache before!
  • Delay updating of components in the font overview (this should speed up editing a lot!).
  • Small optimizations in the rule editor (aka Search).
  • Store custom unicode → glyph names mapping in the Preferences (only those which aren’t in the GNFUL list).
• Inspector
  • Show a nice warning when trying to assign a unicode that already exists.
  • Round the center points when transforming a glyph.
  • Snap to grid even when no transformation is set.
  • Store Inspector pane sizes and reuse them when reopening window.
  • When renaming a glyph, also update the glyph order.
  • Improving setting data in Inspector list views. (Anchor.name cannot by None or empty, baseGlyph is required for a component).
  • Set italic angle as skew value (see options).
• Preferences
  • Adding hot key to toggle measurement info.
  • Adding hot key to toggle upside down.
  • Fixing reordering extensions in the Preferences window.
  • Adding glyph window tool sorting in the Preferences.
  • Check autoSavePath default key and revert the expanded user back to ~/….
  • Adding vertical metrics color to the Preferences.
  • Reset all warning buttons in the Preferences.
• Space Center
  • Adding support for centered text alignment.
  • Set point size correctly when opening a new Space Center.
  • Adding support for hiding template glyphs.
  • Recalculate beam position when setting it with a script.
  • Fixing spaceCenter.getPointSize().
  • Adding support for display options in Kern Center (same hot keys as in Space Center).
  • Improving performance when a current glyph (aka /?) is not needed.
  • Fixing display of left margin while changing it in a Space Center.
  • Support for /! to display the current glyph selection.
  • Fixing issue when the input box is still active.
  • Disabling drag, use CurrentSpaceCenter().disableDrag(True).
  • Adding notification spaceCenterAdditionContextualMenuItems for additional contextual menu items.
• Scripting
  • Jump to the github version of fontTools.
  • Open the UI of an existing font that has been created without one.
  • Adding mutatorMath and the *.desingSpace icon.
  • RoboFab kerning can be set to zero for a specific pair (breaking the old robofab API…).
  • Extension developer’s name can be unicode.
  • Extension name must be ascii only.
  • Fixing font.cmp(other).
  • Better support for setting display states in a glyph line view.
  • Send spaceCenterInputChanged notification.
  • Support for some extensions time logging.
  • Adding from mojo.canvas import CanvasGroup (same as Canvas but with no scrollview).
  • Jump to definition (Alt + Cmd + J).
  • Support word wrap in code editors (py, fea, …).
  • Fixing fontTools recalcBounds when there is no extreme point.
  • Adding KernCenter, GroupCenter and SpaceMatrix to mojo.UI.
  • Adding a UI to an existing font object without a UI: font.showUI().
  • Wrap internal defcon objects.
  • Fixing robofab font.kerning.remove(pair) and del font.kerning[pair].
  • Support for custom extension root – use default key: extensionsDir.
  • Adding removeDefault in lib.tools.defaults.
  • Fixing SmartSet object.
  • Support for custom glyphOrderAndAliasDB: store it in the font.lib with the key com.typesupply.ufo2fdk.glyphOrderAndAliasDB.
  • Support for the hdmx table: store it in the font.lib with key com.robofont.robohint.hdmx.
  • Support for the VDMX table: store it in the font.lib with the key com.robofont.robohint.VDMX.
  • Improved font.copy() by also copying layers.
  • Sort the all fonts list: AllFonts("familyName", "styleName", "italicAngle", "isItalic", myCustomFunction, useDefault=True, reverse=False).
  • Adding support for cap lock modifier key in event tools.
  • Adding contextual menu event in font overview with this notification: fontOverviewAdditionContectualMenuItems
  • Send notification when a testInstall is done: didTestInstallFont.
  • Fixing some small mojo.compile.ttfautohint issues.
  • Fixing bug in checking component baseGlyph names for robofab interpolation.
  • Optionally disable event stream use default enableExternalFileCheck (True/False).
  • Enable automatic text replacements in code editors.
  • Adding AllWindows() and CurrentWindow() to mojo.UI.
  • Adding support for getting a CurrentGlyph() from a Space Center selection.
  • Improving mojo.canvas.
  • Adding glyphWindow.addAdditionalView(vanillaView).
  • Adding glyphWindow.getVisibleRect()to a glyph window. This is the actual visible rect without the scrollers and rulers.
  • Adding glyphs should clear the glyph when overwrite is enabled.
  • drag-and-drop should copy the width of the dropped glyphs.
  • Adding vertical metrics color to the Preferences.
  • Adding roundedRect to mojo.drawingTools.
  • Adding glyphWindow.getVisibleRect() to a glyph window. This is the actual visible rectangle without the scrollers and rulers.
  • Support for Data() object in json.
  • Installations of extensions is based on extension in the default folder.
  • Adding find bar to Output window.
  • Improved glyph.setParent(font).
  • Adding local Python lib folder to sys.path.
  • Improving SliderEditStepper with support for floats.
  • Adding MenuBuilder to mojo.
  • Send notification when drawing the background when the view is inactive.
  • Fixing compiling scripts where the file name contains unicode characters.
  • Improving SmartSet support.
  • Adding selectSmartSets(selection) to set a selection in a Smart List (selection is a list of indexes).
  • Adding updateAllSmartSets() to update a Smart Set list in the UI.
  • Support for period + tab → self. in a code editor.
  • Fixing bug when removing a last smooth bPoint in an open contour.
  • Fixing weird Cmd + grave issue.
  • Fixing issue when something wants to set a lib object in a RFont.
  • Keep BPoint anchors smooth when inserting another bPoint.
  • Improved code editor syntax highlighting.
  • Embedding feaPyFoFum. Use the font.lib key com.typesupply.feaPyFoFum.compileFeatures to enable it while generating.
  • Update glyph after move(x, y).
  • Building extensions with .pyc only enabled copies scripts linked to the menu as normal .py files.
  • Adding RFont.templateGlyphOrder.
  • Fixing drag-and-drop issue with files in a code editor.
  • A glyph view has drawTextAtPoint and drawTextInRect to assist you to draw text in the glyph view.
  • Adding magnetic attribute to a guide object.
  • Fixing flipping glyph.
  • Fixing bug in comparing components in the robofabWrapper.
  • Improved regenerating of the scripting menu, prevent loss of hot keys.
  • Remove kerning pair with kerning.eliminate(…).
  • font.templateGlyphs is an attribute, not a method.
  • Send notification when RoboFont will terminate.
  • Improving API on collection view, mainly used externally in the glyphCollectionDraw notification.
  • autoUnicode() uses uni<4-hex> and u<5-hex> glyph names to set the unicode value.
  • Fixing issue while decomposing a selected component.
  • Adding glyph cell notification: glyphCellDraw and glyphCellDrawBackground. Use it wisely.
• New Icon.
• Updating the embedded AFDKO.
• Adding GNFUL, glyphNameFormatter (with a : script separator)
• Fixing some high unicode input bugs.
• Small UI improvements in 10.10.
• Touch .ufo file to update the file modification date.
• Fixing autosave.
• Optionally disable event stream – use enableExternalFileCheck (True/False).
• Remove empty dictionaries in the glyph.lib when saving.
• Show a warning when a UFO is badly written (but with correct syntax, like 2 moveTo points in the same contour).
• Improving group sheet and make it more flexible.
• Solve small bug in setting extreme points.
• Friendly warning when assigning a unicode that already exists.
• Extension name must be ascii only.
• Transform matrixes in components must be tuples.
• Use the width of the glyph to check if a component can be used with the flag USE_METRICS (only while generating TTF).
• Improving glyph view updates on 10.9.
• Adding menu when launching in safe mode (shift down).
• Update vanilla, compositor and fontTools.
• Fixing big unicodes issue by updating ufo2fdk.
• Removing limitation for ttfautohint requiring a lowercase ‘o’.
• Add GDEF if necessary while building TTF binary.
• Improving support for cursors on retina displays, when creating a cursor please use CreateCursor(pathOrNsImage, hotspot).
• Set the text field as first responder, whatever settings are used.
• Only show Find bar when the font window is the main window.
• Do not add a unicode value for a template glyph if the unicode already exists.
• Show a message when font generation has failed.
• Fixing issue setting maxComponentElements.
• When no glyph name is given, don’t analyze while pasting.
• Better support for orphan glyphs.
• Adding an optional check when the font does not contain an ‘o’, so ttfautohint recognizes it as a symbol font.
• Adding version of embedded packages in the About window.
• Adding clear buttons to Extension Builder.
• Don’t show Output Window when a print statement is not in the main thread. (Fixing here and in Mechanic as well)
• Fixing a bug that removed duplicated guides with same angle and position.
• Adding support for dummy DSIG table. (see Font Info sheet > RoboFont).

This update only supports macOS 10.9 or higher.

Older versions of macOS are supported by RoboFont 1.6.

RoboFont 1.6

• Font Overview
  • Improving Alt copy of glyph selection to glyph names only.
  • Preserve checkboxes in the Add Glyph sheet.
  • Adding support for glyph note in the Font Overview list view and font search.
  • Glyph cell slider + Alt key will resize cells in all open fonts.
  • Improving Add Glyph sheet with options to import glyph names from external encoding file or from other open fonts.
• Glyph Editor
  • Better support for orphan point selection during copy paste.
  • Support drag-and-drop glyphs to a Scripting Window.
  • Undo support for flip layers.
  • Use italic slant offset as a display option.
  • Fixing bug with transformation of components selection.
  • Reset selection after locking an image and switching from Transform mode.
  • Slice tool snaps to guides.
  • Reset image selection after locking an image.
  • Improved support for copy/paste and preserving contour order.
  • Jump to glyph pushes exact matches to the top.
  • Fixing bug with joining contours when points are on top of each other.
  • Don’t jump to hidden layers.
• Space Center
  • Enable flip.
  • Live preview when editing the left margin.
  • Fixing bug when using the beam.
  • Display font size as a combo box.
  • Fixing bug in window order when double-clicking a Space Center.
  • Add in-between values when beam is active.
• Scripting
  • Fixing bug when setting x, y values in guides.
  • Support for adding Inspector window panes and toolbar items in both a font window or a glyph window with: inspectorWindowWillShowDescriptions, glyphWindowWillShowToolbarItems and fontWindowWillShowToolbarItems event notifications.
  • Fixing bug when comparing components with glyph.isCompatible(otherGlyph).
  • Adding a new bundle.html attribute to ExtensionBundle, to indicate if the bundle has html help files. It must be a bool.
  • Adding font.showUI() (only for fonts which have no UI yet).
  • Improving glyph.center() to work better with layers.
  • Improving getting bcpIn and bcpOut in bPoints with open contours.
  • Adding OpenScriptWindow(path.py) to mojo.UI.
  • Adding obj.getRepresentation to robofab glyph and font wrapper.
  • Fixing bug when getting an extension icon.
  • Improving support for font.save() when no path is given and font has no path.
  • Remove closed documents from AllFonts.
  • Fixing bug in rounding kerning.
  • Fixing bug in diving a glyph.
  • Fixing bug in copying orphan glyphs.
  • Add a space after # when commenting lines of code.
  • Improving support for code completions.
  • mojo.CurrentFontWindow().setGlyphNamesAsSet(glyphNames)
  • font.setLayerDisplay has an option for all.
  • mojo.UI.getTestInstalledFonts() and mojo.UI.testDeinstallFont(font)
  • Script file browsers hide empty .py files in the menu, and support alias files.
  • Fixing bug in font.copy().
  • Adding font.info.update(otherInfoObject).
  • Adding support for sub-classing internal font objects.
  • Improving messages when installing and uninstalling extensions (with version numbers).
  • Adding currentFontOnly option for getting windows with mojo: CurrentGlyphWindow(currentFontOnly=True) works for all windows in mojo.
  • Make it easier to add a UI to an existing font without a UI.
  • Adding mutatorMath and mutatorMath.designSpace icon :)
• Inspector
  • Visual support for multiple unicodes in Inspector window.
  • Fixing bug when setting the transform matrix for components.
  • Transform pane now accepts Enter to apply a transformation.
  • Support for transform location while flipping.
  • Add a nice warning when assigning a unicode that already exists.
• Preferences
  • Adding AGL-file path for custom unicode to glyph name mapping.
  • Check if short key path exists.
  • Adding option to toggle __future__.division while executing a script.
  • Adding color preferences for preview fill and preview background.
  • Improving support for sorting extensions.
  • Adding hot key to toggle measurement info.
• Fixing bug: rounding error while compiling a ttf.
• Improving Test Install.
• Search Box in Info Sheet.
• Support for vfb import/export if users have vfb2ufo installed in /usr/local/bin.
• Update the embedded FDK.
• Fixing bug when generating an unsaved font.
• Improving conversion from cubic to quadractic curves.
• Support for conversion from quadratic to cubic curves with the same logic.
• Improving support for Test Install when there is no UI.
• Update color marks in the rule editor with the colors in the current font.
• Holding Shift down while launching the app will open RoboFont without any extensions installed (Safe Mode).
• UI uniformity on list cell colors.

RoboFont 1.5.1

• Fixing Preferences window bug for 10.6 users.

RoboFont 1.5

• Font Overview
  • Adding support for deletion of multiple Smart Sets.
  • Adding option for choosing a mark color when generating new glyphs.
  • Adding support for selection of multiple Smart Sets.
  • Adding support for navigation with arrow keys in Smart Sets.
  • New code editor for OpenType features.
• Glyph Editor
  • Fixing direction of keys for layer up/down. :)
  • Adding Cmd + Ctrl in the Components contextual menu, to copy the base glyph metrics.
  • Adding display option Show Segment index.
  • Remove Overlap now works faster.
  • Separating display options: Guides and Rulers.
  • Fixing bug in beam factory when two intersections are on top of each other.
  • Adding Show Image Info.
  • Glyphs with more than 5 unicodes are renamed to uXXXXX.
  • Add Components sheet now accepts both unicode value and glyph name when searching for glyphs.
  • Better support for selection of multiple tangent points.
  • Adding Ctrl + Cmd + A to select all components.
  • Fixing bug in joining contours with line and curve segment.
  • Fixing bug in exporting smart list to groups.
  • Improving sliders for image colors.
  • Set components as selected after decomposing.
  • Adding Lock Image to image contextual menu.
  • Join a contour with another contour (only when two end/start points are selected).
  • Alt + click on a straight line to generate BCPs with the rule of thirds.
  • Set points as selected after slicing.
• Space Center
  • Same default settings as a glyph view for jumping to the next glyphs.
  • Adding hot key to toggle Space Matrix.
  • Preventing PUA from converting characters in the input field back to unicode.
  • Improving esc menu.
  • Handling Space Window titles similarly as other windows.
  • Fixing small bug with drag-and-drop.
  • Adding setBeam(pos) and beam() methods.
  • Adding flexible cell widths.
  • Adding hot keys to toggle kerning.
• Inspector
  • Adding support for drag-and-drop reordering of contours.
  • Fixing bug with setting a note in a glyph.
  • Improving layer panel: drag-and-drop and reordering.
• Generating
  • Better output for .ttf compiler.
  • Faster generation for all formats.
  • Fixing bug in .ttf splines. (It’s possible to have a contour without any on-curves, doh)
  • Fixing bug with double points in .ttf compiler.
• Preferences
  • Adding ‘Reveal Python Script folder’ button to Preferences > Python.
  • New default colors and options for the new code editor.
  • Allow any kind of shortcut to be assigned to a script.
• Scripting
  • Adding a selected attribute to Robofab bPoints.
  • Adding glyph.removeSelection to RoboFab.
  • Allowing ExtensionBundle to save an extension or make one from scratch.
  • New Code Editor, with new syntax highlighting.
  • New mouse and keyboard shortcuts in a code editor:
    • select number → Cmd + drag
    • select tuple → Cmd + drag
    • select number → Cmd + arrow up/down
    • select bool (True, False) + Cmd + click
    • select bool (True, False) + Cmd + arrow up/down
  • Remember settings for ‘Show Line Numbers’.
  • Fixing bug in exporting preferences in mojo.UI.
  • Improved UI for Extension Builder.
  • Adding support for sending custom events.
  • Set and get a transform matrix from a Robofab component.
  • Check if the coding font used in the scripting window is installed.
  • Adding AllSpaceCenterWindows and CurrentSpaceCenterWindow.
  • Adding option to import/export Preferences to/from a dict.
  • Adding shortcuts for indenting and unindenting code.
  • Fixing Robofab’s rotate, skew and offset attributes.
  • Adding support for applying transformation matrixes to an image object.
  • Publish event when an extension is built.
  • Adding support for inserting BPoints in a contour.
  • Fixing bug in robofab.contour.breakContour(point).
  • Adding support for glyph, component and selection colors in mojo.glyphPreview.
  • mojo.UI.multiLineView returns a proper Robofab glyph.
  • Adding SpaceCenterToPDF and GlyphWindowToPDF.
  • Improving Smart Sets in mojo.UI
• Fixing typos!
• ‘Update found’ bugs should be completely Fixing. :)
• Massively improved memory management.
• Adding support for robofont://path and robofont-script://path.py.
• Fixing bug with saving images.
• Adding support for opening .ttc TrueTypeCollection files.

RoboFont 1.4

• Font Overview
  • Fixing bug in the conversion of Smart Set to group.
  • Don’t mark template glyphs.
  • Fixing bug in setting glyph order by dragging glyphs.
  • Fixing bug in removing glyphs and template glyphs.
  • Building components with anchors.
  • Adding anchor syntax: Agrave=A+grave@top.
  • Adding search by mark color.
  • Adding Smart Set binders.
  • Fixing bug with include(myFile.fea).
• Glyph Editor
  • Fixing bug in remove overlap.
  • Fixing bug in slicing glyphs.
  • Correctly perform layer up / layer down hot keys.
  • Swap complete glyph to layer when there is no selection.
  • Round components after decomposing to the value set in the Preferences.
  • Fixing bug in beam glyphs.
  • Fixing bug in Jump to Layer popup window.
  • Page up / down jump through component selection.
  • Page begin / end jump through anchor selection.
  • Support for Shift constrain when scaling images.
  • Fixing bug with horizontal and vertical flipping.
  • Draw anchor coordinates when ‘show point coordinates’ is active.
  • Enter on anchor selection.
  • Transform position is written back to the defaults.
  • Fixing bug when slicing glyphs.
  • Adding anchor indexes and component indexes.
  • Fixing bugs with constrains.
  • Better undo support for global guides.
  • Improving break contour.
• Generating
  • Optimizing .pfa compiler.
  • Check contour direction while generating .ttf or .otf from different sources.
• Preferences
  • Adding Close Contour to hot keys.
  • Adding Space Center Input Selection Color.
• Scripting
  • Support for opening binary fonts without UI and scripting.
  • Clear Output Window before running a script.
  • Adding stemHist to mojo.compile.
  • Backup code if code makes RoboFont crash :)
  • Debug window is accessible through mojo.
  • Support for isCompatible with nice error report.
  • Support for tabs in Scripting Window.
  • OpenFont(…, showUI=False) can be opened in a Glyph Window or Space Center.
  • font.templateSelection in robofab.
  • Adding hasOverlap() to robofab (both in glyph and contour object).
  • font.copy(showUI=False/True) to make a copy with or without UI.
  • Adding QTKit.
  • Fixing bugs in Cocoa drawing tools.
  • setGlyphViewScale and centerGlyphInView for a glyph window object.
  • Open the MultiLine view as a vanilla object.
  • Support for glyph math and boolean operations with | union, % difference, & intersection and ^ xor.
  • Support for tracking in Space Center aSpaceCenter.setTracking(10).
  • New event callbacks in Space Center: spaceCenterDraw, spaceCenterKeyDown, spaceCenterKeyUp.
  • Adding GlyphWindowToPDF and SpaceCenterToPDF to mojo.UI.
• Metrics
  • Optimizing RTL kerning.
  • Pressing esc in Space Center input will cancel setting metrics.
  • Make sure the Space Center input box is continuous.
  • Fixing large linespace frame size in Space Center.
  • Don’t live update Space Center on glyph change when there are lots of characters to display.
  • Fixing an old scroll to selection bug in Space Center.
• Let users know if an UFO is unsaved when switching to another app. (Jumping RoboFont icon in the dock)
• All editable numbers have support for up / down arrow keys.
• Better support for Single Window Mode with additional glyph windows and current glyph.
• Pop up a warning if RoboFont is stored in a folder containing space characters.
• Send event when an external change has happened.
• Adding View short keys for font window (available under Window > View).
• Better support in detecting quadratic / cubic glyphs.
• Fixing bug in external updates and save operation.
• Optimizing external changes (example: when a UFO is stored in a DropBox folder and changed when RoboFont is active).
• Toolbars are more flexible and easier to change.
• Remove empty contours during loading.

RoboFont 1.3

• Font Overview
  • Cmd + F shows Find Glyph panel in Font Overview.
  • Fixing bug in Smart Sets.
  • Warn about duplicated glyph names when adding glyphs.
  • Add Glyphs by pressing Enter is the same as using the Apply button.
  • Check for template glyphs when adding new glyphs.
  • On glyph change, also check if the glyph name is scheduled for deletion.
  • Fixing bug in Font Info Sheet: reset font info with some basic attributes.
  • Font Overview drag-and-drop:
    • drop on row: add contours
    • drop on row + alt: add as components
    • drop between row: reorder glyph set
  • Alt + click on Smart List to select Smart Set.
  • Alt + delete also removes the template glyph.
  • Cell size slider updates when using keys to change the zoom level of glyph cells.
• Glyph Editor
  • Fixing a bug in Editing Tool when glyph was None.
  • Ignore Shift + down constrain while Cmd is down
  • Move BCP when closing a contour.
  • Bezier Drawing Tool continues to draw in selection only if the contour is open.
  • Show Add Anchor sheet only when an anchor name is given.
  • Better stroke-hit-by-point calculations.
  • Check for selection while transforming a set of glyphs.
  • Check if grid size is not 0.
  • Fixing a bug with snapping contours when both points are selected.
  • Don’t send keydown notification in Preview mode.
  • Post notification when Glyph Window gets selected/deselected.
  • Don’t join contours when in Transform mode.
  • Fixing bug in Cut with template glyph.
  • Close current contour on double-click (Drawing Tool).
  • Toggle selection on mouse click with magic contour selection.
  • Fixing bug in removeAnchor.
  • Allow spaces in anchor names.
  • Fixing bug in Select All when there is no glyph set.
  • Ignore first mouse down when in Single Window mode.
  • Better support for new glyph windows, don’t fit to window directly.
  • Tab with hot key through BCP-anchor-BCP.
  • Better support for layers visibility when layer is selected.
  • Update rulers when a new glyph has been set.
  • Fixing an annoying bug in Transform.
  • Fixing bug with shift constrain on y-axis (jumped over the first 5 units).
  • Join contours takes the Glyph View scale into the snapping distance. The snapping distance can be stored as a new Preferences setting.
  • Smaller increase rate of grid disappearing.
  • Fixing bug in slicing: bounds should be checked as bounds, not as rectangles.
  • Make anchors visible if one anchor is added.
  • During Select All, show anchors in the selection, even if they aren’t visible.
  • Fixing bug in joining contours.
  • Fixing bug in Copy&Paste with different kind of objects.
  • Support Undo while adding anchors.
  • Take the closest distance when joining multiple contours.
  • addComponent copy metrics will be disabled when the glyph contains some contours.
  • Don’t break contour, but delete single on-curve point in the contour.
  • Don’t move when switching layers up & down :)
  • Select layers with double-click.
  • Better support for preserving point attributes during remove overlap.
  • Fixing bug in Editing Tool: dragging a mix of off-curves and on-curves.
  • Fixing ray margins.
  • Adding join contours in contextual menus.
  • Adding break contours in contextual menu.
  • Adding layer data in copy paste from Font Overview.
  • Scroll with control to zoom faster with scroll wheel.
  • Adding crosshair to anchor, component dragging.
  • Clear also all layers when a glyph gets deleted.
  • Fixing bug in setting glyph and keeping the same scroll amount, so switching glyphs is less jumpy.
  • Use esc during transform to reset the transformation.
  • Allow transformation of single points and multiple points not even in a segment.
  • Magic selection tool should also select single moveTo points.
  • Better support for transform and guides.
  • Mixed selection is possible (points, segments, contours, anchors, components, image).
  • Slanted grid based on italic slant angle.
• Inspector
  • Solving weird layer color syncing.
  • Only reset selection if it has contours, so components keep their selection.
  • Resizable column headers in the Inspector view.
  • Reverse how transformations are added.
  • Prepare to save transformations in the user defaults.
  • Fixing bug when glyph is empty and transform metrics is on.
  • Write transforms back to defaults and recover them while opening the Inspector window.
  • In move transforms, ignore do metrics while transforming.
  • Removed Action button in layers Inspector pane.
  • Close the Inspector window when Cmd + i is pressed.
  • Check if there is a document open in the Inspector window.
  • Unicode value can be None when set in the Inspector.
  • Adding option Transform Again, to repeat the previous transformation.
• Preferences
  • Python panel gets tabs.
  • Adding defaultForeGroundLayerColor and defaultBackGroundLayerColor to the Preferences.
  • Better support for changing scripting hot keys in the Preferences.
  • Check for Cmd + F shortcut in Scripting hot keys and disable the Full Screen shortcut.
  • Set starting points hot key and better support from the menu.
  • 45° constraints as a Preference setting.
  • Always add Update menu in Extensions menu.
  • Marque selection color in Preferences.
  • Adding Test Install hot key.
  • Adding Preference starting point color for open contours.
  • Adding options to reset, export and import Preferences.
  • Check if the chosen font used in to display code and features is still installed.
• Space Center
  • Space Center input text could be None.
  • Improving scrolling in single line mode in Space Center.
  • Auto suffix detection based on current glyph.
  • Show/hide space matrix.
  • Set the current value when tabbing to another value.
  • Improving Undo support in Space Center input fields.
  • Require Enter after a value has been edited.
  • Support for Italic angle in beams and measurements.
  • Space Center keeps track of the current glyph when opening.
  • Adding Alt + drag to move glyph along the y axis, Alt + Cmd + drag to move glyph along the x axis.
  • Improving how “Jump to Glyph” works.
  • Renaming layers.
• Features
  • Open .fea files natively.
  • Features editor supports drag-and-drop of a .fea features file, which is inserted into code as a link: include(dropFilePath);.
• Generating
  • Only move contours when shifting with an italic offset.
  • Always check for mixed components before generating.
  • Converting TrueType off-curve points must be inside the bounds of the original Bezier segment.
  • Fixing bug in generating .ttf files.
  • Updating to AFDKO 2.5, with better support for mark-to-mark (thanks Miguel and Erik).
  • ttf compiler: space can be anywhere in the glyph order.
  • ttf compiler: check if anything goes wrong in generating the empty font, and report nicely.
  • While generating decompose when a component has a scale transformation
• Scripting
  • Run Python files directly from the file browser with Cmd + R or contextual menu.
  • Adding support for external scripting with shell command: see Preferences, robofont -h.
  • CurrentFont().glyphOrder creates and removes template glyphs.
  • Better handling of notifications for viewWillChangeGlyph and viewDidChangeGlyph.
  • Solved bugs in mojo.UI involving getting and setting Character Sets.
  • Adding mojo.tools.
  • glyph.pointInside() is a lot faster.
  • Cmd + g in Scripting window for Find Next.
  • Save .py files encoded as utf-8.
  • Improved support for Smart Set in mojo.UI.
  • Adding addSmartSet, removeSmartSet, setDefaultCharacterSet, getDefaultCharacterSet,removeCharacterSet, getCharacterSet, setCharacterSet, setMaxAmountOfVisibleTools,getMaxAmountOfVisibleTools.
  • Scripting Window keeps track of placing and size of the window.
  • Code and feature editors will not convert (p) to ℗.
  • All textEditor have disabled rich text formatting.
  • Support for external editing of .py and feature files.
  • Adding support for CurrentFontWindow() in mojo.
  • Adding help to the scripting namespace.
  • Adding draw, drawPoints and box to robofab components.
  • Adding new notification binaryFontWillOpen.
  • Adding mojo.compile.
  • Adding getScriptingMenuNamingShortKey and setScriptingMenuNamingShortKey to mojo.UI.
  • Adding testInstallFormat for format used in test install (should be otf or ttf).
  • Adding a clearDefaults in lib.tools.defaults.
  • Adding mojo.UI importPreferences exportPreferences.
  • Adding getToolsOrder, setToolsOrder to order the tools in the toolbar.
• RoboFab
  • Return public.glyphOrder when there is no document in the RoboFab font object.
  • Revert order of interpolation masters in RoboFab methods.
  • Fixing bug in RoboFab compare font.
  • Don’t assume added glyphs are robofabwrapperglyph only :)
  • Support for beams and rays in robofabwrapper.
  • Adding path to save notifications.
  • Set a default width for new glyphs setDefault("newGlyphWidth", 123).
  • Use Esc to ignore “don’t show again” dialogs.
  • Fixing bug in remove overlap comparing numpy objects.
  • Fixing typos.
  • Adding modules syncope and csv.
  • Fixing bug in the Extension Bundle.
  • Set modification time for ufo if saved.
  • Improving support for reading .woff files.
  • Return the value of RSegment.smooth.
  • Support for glyph metrics math in robofabwrapperglyph.
  • Adding breakContour(point) to robofabwrapperglyph.
• All assets are ready for Retina displays.

RoboFont 1.2

• Global app cache for template glyph image cells.
• Separate Revert options for changed, added and removed glyphs.
• Set glyph to unchanged on Revert to saved.
• Sort glyphs based on public.glyphOrder from font.lib.
• Application alias added to the .dmg file.
• Transparent mark colors are now drawn with a black triangle in the back.
• Show slant angle in the glyph cells.
• Fixing bug which made new glyphs unselectable.
• Check for nested components.
• Solving weird tool cursor issue in fullscreen mode (10.7).
• Better support for the AFDKO, with better feedback when it encounters an error.
• Fixing bugs with adding/removing glyphs when a subset is selected.
• Test Install now also works with fonts which are not Document-based, for example UFOs opened without a UI with OpenFont("path/to/my/font", showUI=False).
• Check glyph order in binary compilers for template glyphs.
• New licensing system.
• Adding Sparkle auto-updater.
• Better support for copying & pasting of EPS data (from and to Illustrator).
• When pasting paste, check segmentType and convert if necessary.
• Fixing UI bug when tabbing through the font info sheet (10.6 only).
• Better support for drag-and-drop on Smart Sets (also: drag on top of Smart Set to add the glyph name).
• The app is code-signed for 10.8 usage.
• Fixing a few typos :)
• Documents
  • Preserve starting points when converting splines.
  • Open .fea files as native documents. This will open a new feature window with no font attached – so it possible to send the feature to all open fonts, or to a selection of all open fonts.
  • Added icons for .otf .ttf .fea .pfa .woff .pfb .py files (will only be applied if RF is the default application to open these files).
  • Support for .ttf in .woff files.
  • Open folders: files are now listed in the tree of a Scripting Window.
  • Disable PS auto-hinting when no blue values are set
  • Saving predefined character set in the font.lib.
  • Saving sorting order in the font.lib.
  • Adding export features.
  • Really remove deleted glyphs :)
• Glyph View
  • Select added components.
  • Shift + tab to select previous point.
  • Alt + tab to select off-curve points.
  • Alt + next/previous glyph jumps to glyphs from another Smart Set.
  • Adding BCP minimal mouse moved distance to account for the view scale.
  • Support for hiding measurements info (useful when lots of measurements are added).
  • Scrolling through glyphs in Glyph View: previewKey + Alt + scroll wheel.
  • Draw the grid first in the Glyph View.
  • Copy/paste .glif xml.
  • Fixing bug with deletion of points.
  • Components are now added when selecting all.
  • Alt + click + drag to select off-curves only.
  • Draw some component info in the new Component info display option.
  • Refinements when a user has more then 7 tools installed: a drop-down menu will appear in the last segment of the tool button.
  • Nicer defaults for glyph offset in the Glyph View.
  • aicbtools (copy paste from Illustrator and FL) now supports open paths.
  • Better rounding point coordinates.
  • Better handling of grid resolutions when zooming out.
  • Fixing bug with dragging smooth on-curve points.
  • Fixing bug with copy/paste: starting point now stays the same.
  • Lock side-bearings in Glyph window.
  • Reverse quadratic curves after removing overlap (so they will have a default TT direction).
  • Don’t send mouseUp notification when zooming.
  • Extreme points now only adds points between two selected on-curve points, or adds all extreme points when nothing is selected.
• Space Center
  • Space Center prevents unintentional click & drag.
  • Alt + drag glyphs into the Space Center to include them in the input string.
  • Support for equalized slanted side-bearings in angled italics.
  • Moving glyph names suffix and kerning to the display options menu in the Space Center.
  • Space Center can go full screen.
  • Adding smart suffixes in Space Center, based on splitting glyph names on . (period).
• Inspector view
  • Adding Reverse to flipping.
  • Adding Undo support for Transform actions.
  • Use metrics math in Inspector glyph info panel.
  • Reorder components in Inspector with drag-and-drop.
  • Inspector points are displayed as a tree view.
  • Transform options in Inspector window.
  • Transform metrics as option in the Transform panel.
• Preferences
  • New option: hide dashed cross line while dragging.
  • New color options added: measurement, contour index, point index.
  • Redesigned Glyph View Preferences panel.
  • Shift and Cmd + Shift are now in the Glyph View Preferences panel.
  • New option: color schemes for quadratic and cubic curves (handle and point strokes are interchangeable).
  • New option: when deleting glyphs, also delete the glyph name from groups and kerning.
• mojo
  • New mojo.UI.UpdateCurrentGlyphView.
  • from mojo.extensions import ExtensionBundle, getExtensionDefault, setExtensionDefault, getExtensionDefaultColor, setExtensionDefaultColor
  • Extension Builder now has support for a resources path: a folder containing images or additional data. (Note: this is not a place to store Python files.)
  • Adding new events: glyphWindowWillOpen, glyphWindowWillClose, fontWillSave, fontWillAutoSave
  • Adding mojo.roboFont.version :)
  • Adding ExtensionBundle: from mojo.extensions import ExtensionBundle
  • Send proper UFObecomeActive notifications.
  • Adding extensionValidator.
  • Defaults system for Extensions (using another Preferences file to save defaults).
  • Adding AccordionView to mojo.UI.
  • Addint registerExtensionDefaults to mojo.extensions.
  • Fixing bug in mojo.drawingTools involving text with fill and stroke colors set.
  • Adding SetCurrentLayerByName to mojo.UI.
• RoboFab
  • Fixing bug when adding glyphs with Robofab.
  • Adding removeGuides.
  • Adding font.copy() to the Robofab wrapper.
  • Robofab rotate in degrees instead of radians.
  • Handle obj.selected = True/False (better).
  • appendComponent will check if it is referencing to itself.
  • Fixing bug with scaling of components.
  • Fixing bug with Robofab segment.selected.
  • Fixing bug with Robofab set/get bPoint types.
  • glyph.mark can accept None to remove a mark color.
• Scripting
  • Contextual menu in file browser.
  • Output Window now has color preferences, copying & pasting text will ignore rich text attributes.
  • Scripting Window: enter on a file will send the file as current document.
  • Open a folder in the Scripting Window.

RoboFont 1.1

• Adding support for nested components.
• Improving glyph transform.
• Fixing bug in copy and paste from Illustrator.
• glyph.mark can handle a single as input.
• Images can be locked.
• Alt + Cmd down will mirror the handle point.
• Space Center value input fields can handle simple math like =e+10-z*10 or -=10+a.
• New mojo.canvas object.
• API support for Smart Sets.
• Adding support for tabbing through the Font Info sheet input fields.
• Adding a checkbox to Add Component sheet for copying glyph metrics.
• Find bar/panel in the Scripting Window’s output area.
• Fixing bug in Space Center preventing notifications.
• Ignore mask color and guides during copy in the Glyph View.
• Fixing bug in kerning sheet when the group name is not in the font.groups.
• Generating choices are enabled/disabled based on the export format.
• Ignore template glyphs in robofab.
• Improving conversions between cubic and quadratic contours.
• Save states for the Font Overview panes.
• Show a warning if groups contain glyph names with ‘ (single quote).
• Adding HelpWindow to mojo.UI.
• .py files are now also document based.
• Fixing typos.
• Extension Builder can handle required major minor version of RoboFont.
• Import extensions in Extension Builder.
• Extensions builder write files automatically.
• Improving file browsers.
• Clear info in the Font Info sheet.
• Ignore anchors during binary compile.
• Single line and waterfall have a horizontal scrollbar.
• New column in Font Overview: mark color.
• Fixing bug with setting extreme points.
• Undo/redo on glyph selection in Font Overview.
• Mirror all/selected glyphs in Transform panel.
• Use a Find bar in 10.7.
• mojo.UI can open a glyph in a window and create a new Space Center.
• Scrolling when you jump with tab in the Font Info sheet.
• Remember the developer and developer URL in the Extension Builder.
• Fixing bugs in Space Center.
• Close the window with unsubscribing the glyphs.
• Better accept mouse move so it will not disturb other views.
• Adding drawPreview event.
• Space Center can hide “in between” control glyphs.
• Display selection info in the status bar of the Font Overview.
• Fixing bugs in robofab.
• Print font will now print familyName and styleName.
• Adding removeGuide.
• Update the Output Window when you print something directly.
• Use the Glyph View bounds for calculating the length of the guides.
• Better support for generating .ttf binaries.
• If you have ttfautohint installed, autohint is an option. ttfautohint cannot be embedded in RoboFont because of license incompatibilities.
• Improved support for preserving same amounts of points.
• Draw glyph coordinates in context of the background, slightly darker on darker backgrounds.
• Opens all files: ttx, T1 binary, T2 ascii, PostScript outlines / T1 suitcases aren’t supported (yet).
• Drawing tool: Alt + click (no drag) will convert the last segment to a line.
• ‘Lock guides’ is a global user setting instead of local to the Glyph View.
• Fixing sorting error.
• Revert.
• Fixing bug in Transform.
• Update the glyph view during paste.
• Glyph order issue in .ttf generation.
• Use allowPseudoUnicode in the super Smart Sort.
• f.glyphOrder returns the glyph order.
• Bitmap representation is properly aligned to the grid.
• Grid is a solid line.
• Fixing typos.
• Scripting Window has an Edit With… toolbar item.
• Edits to the Kerning and Groups sheets can be canceled, so the changes will not be applied to the font.
• Generating binaries: the order is the same as in the UI. A new option can add Mac Roman in front of the glyph order when generating fonts.
• Ice cube tray view show when a glyph has been edited.
• Adding SetCurrentGlyphByName to mojo.UI – set a glyph by name in the current glyph view.
• Don’t copy unicode value if that unicode value already exists in the font.
• Adding text color and background to the Scripting Window.
• Save As… will not save template glyphs.
• Mark colors are added the the color palette.
• Columns in the Font Overview can be hidden with a right click on the column header (like iTunes).
• New super Smart Sorting options (thanks to Tal), you’ll never create an .enc file again :)
• If the default font for template glyphs isn’t installed on your system, it will take the default system font.
• Images can be saved in the new image folder next to the UFO. (This is similar to UFO3, but not inside the UFO.)
• Glyph cell headers in the Font Overview changes background color when the mark color is too close.

RoboFont 1.0

Initial public version.