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[Photoshop release notes are here]
2024β01-25
Improved
- Compatible with Illustrator 2024
2022β10-24
Improved
- Compatible with Illustrator 2023
Fixed
- Circumventing new bugs introduced by Illustrator
2021β07-21
Fixed
- Circumventing new bugs introduced by Illustrator (versions 25.3+)
2021β06-28
Fixed
- Compatibility issues with Illustrator 25.3
- Minor bugs
2020β11-02
Fixed
- Compatibility bug fixed on Windows for Illustrator 2021
2020β10-19
Improved
- Compatible with Illustrator 2021
- Compatible with macOSΒ Big Sur 11
Fixed
- Bugs with vector strokes & gradients
2020β09-07
New
- Smart Metrics: improved for quotes & punctuation
Fixed
- Minor bugs
2020β02β20
New
- Smart Metrics: get spacing & kerning adjusted for all glyphs in one click (vector fonts only)
- Support of Greek
Fixed
- Minor bugs
2019β09β06
New
- Illustrator 2020 ready
- macOS 10.15 (Catalina) ready
Fixed
- Importing metrics now works with single-case fonts
2019β07β30
New
- Smart Create: import & name many glyphs at once (select them and enter the same amount of characters, separated by a comma, like: A,a,B,b or $,β¬,Β₯β or Π,Π,Π,Π or more sophisticated ffi.liga, f.alt2 to create ligatures and alternates)
Improved
- Speed, speed, speed (up to 500% faster to open, load and refresh complex fonts)
Fixed
- Fewer crashes when editing complex vector & bitmap fonts
- Metrics import bug that mixed up some glyphs Β
- Wrong conversion for all-cap fonts on ΕΈ
More details about these cool new features here.
2019β06β11
New
- Easy all-caps fonts (uppercase/lowercase-only fonts are saved to display the missing case)
- Warnings to highlight potential issues
- Scaling guidelines to compare glyph size with a standard font
- Preview glyph name & Unicode value in Spacing & Kerning views
- Easily copy characters in Spacing & Kerning views
- Convert color fonts to βblackβ fonts
- Create & edit alternates via Smart Batch
- Scale a font to a specific height
- New help articles on Advanced Spacing and Kerning Groups
β
Improved
- Performance improvements (up to 50% faster to refresh fonts)
- New spacing & kerning sample texts to quick-start the process
Fixed
- Kerning Pad bug that displayed wrong alternates
- Scrolling bug when selecting glyphs
- Alternates kerning bug when using kerning groups
β
2019β03β05
Fixed
- Some users weren't able to enter the license key and login successfully
- The extension could logout after a month if it wasn't used
β
2019β01β07
Added
- Create custom glyph for space character
β
βFixed
- Inaccurate glyph shapes in CC 2019
- Inaccurate position of stroked glyphs when using a guide
- Wrong alternates in text pad when ligatures were enabled
β
2018β12β06
Added
- Create glyphs from Unicode values, like U+E902
- Create custom space characters
βAdded to Fontself Catapult
- Use & share your fonts on mobile with the Fontself iOS app
- Showcase live web fonts on Behance & Adobe Portfolio
β
2018β10β11
Updated
- Catapulting an update to an existing web font can now be done right within the extension (no need to load the Catapult website)
- Welcome Gazette includes web & mobile font usage with Catapult
Fixed
- Unlocking kerning group pairs prevented from reopening font files
- Dropping 26 letters with a guide prompted for 27 objects
- Monospace feature in Advanced spacing did not work
β
2018β09β05
Fixed
- Wrong glyph metrics after renaming & replacing a glyph
- Windows installer's title was still "v2"...
Updated
- Our legal EULA for the software installer
Added
- Our terms and privacy policy for all Fontself tools & services
β
2018β09β02
Added
π Fontself Catapult Use your fonts on the web & mobile
π― Kerning Groups Kern your fonts Better, Faster, Stronger
π Import Spacing / Kerning Another time-saver for font families!
Improved
- Faster operations with all fonts β¨
Fixed
- π Many tiny bugs fixed
- Create a ligature with multiple dot characters
βLearn more about these cool new features
β
2018β06β13
Fixed
- Better checks on glyphs' advance width
β οΈ If you have created fonts with a version older than v2.3.3 containing alternates or ligatures or kerning, open & export the font again to get the fixes.
β
2018β06β05
Fixed
- Exporting fonts on Windows should now lead to fewer invalid fonts for Latin & Cyrillic scripts, as alternates, ligatures or kerning could previously cause troubles.
- An error message that wasn't supposed to be there :D
β οΈ If you have created fonts containing alternates or ligatures or kerning, open & export the font again to get the fixes.
β
2018β03β20
Improved
- Smarter batch import for alternates & ligatures
- Text previews for color fonts made faster and easier to use
β
Fixed
- Glyphs with gradients would lead to empty fonts
- Graphemes like Γ¦ or Ε are not anymore converted into ligatures
β οΈ If you have created fonts containing Γ¦, Γ, Ε or Ε, check whether these characters have been converted into ligatures. If so, just reopen the font file, rename the a + e / o + e Β ligatures into Γ¦ / Ε when needed, and export the font again.
β
2017β10β18
Added
- Create color fonts π (with fill/stroke colors, opacity or even gradients)
- Create alternate glyphs
- Create ligatures
- Filter the glyphsFixed
- Small bugs wandering around
βLearn more about these cool new features
β
2017β08β09
Added
- When using the "Create Glyph" button, if the character is already in the font, you will be ask if you want to replace it or not. (You don't need to delete the character like before)
- Alert if your Illustrator version is not compatible on startup
Fixed
- Small bugs wandering around
β
2017β07β20
Fixed
- Better precision of metrics when dragging lines
- Extension panel was blank for some users
- Small bugs wandering around
β
2017β07β18
Added
- What's new and check updates links in extension's menuFixed
- License activation problem for non english users
β
2017β07β14
Fixed
- Open Fontself v1.x fonts
- Install font families on Windows (please re-export all fonts)
- Scale button now impacts glyphs as well as spacing & kerning values
- Mono Space button produces better results
β
2017β07β03
π Advanced Spacing
π― Kerning
π‘ Smart Batch
π Scale all glyphs at once
π Font creation template file
π¬ Community Forum
βΉοΈ Searchable Help
βCheck all the new features here.
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2017β04β13
Fixed
- Installer issues on some computers
- No need to re-enter your personal license key
- Corrupted fonts on Windows can now be reexported to install
- Links in our chat window work again
β
2016β09β20
Fixed
- Tiny fix for vector paths
β
2016β09β19
New
- Font Families: start new font styles from existing fonts!
- Guides: now supporting "xHeight" & "capHeight" names
- Guides: 3 unnamed guides will be considered as ascender, baseline & descenderImproved
- Glyphs: fewer rendering issuesFixed
- Live Preview: displaying PUA glyphs
- Windows: opening font folder/file from the extension
- Windows: adding .otf file extension to font file if needed
β
2016β08β11
- Support for any Unicode πππ₯π!
- (Fix) Printing issues with some letters
- More bug fixes βοΈ
β
2016β07β12
- Sample text was blank in FontBook (Mac)
- "Export" was generating non valid fonts in some cases
- More bug fixes βοΈ
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2016β07β05
- Add-on installer now works with Illustrator CC 2015.3
- Better shape precision for perfect glyphs
- Improved font compatibility with older software (ie. Word 2008)
- Offline editing
- "What's New" button in the side menu
- More bug fixes βοΈ
β
2016β06β08
- Open fonts that were generated with Fontself
- Change your fontβs information (font family, style, etc.)
- Batch create several glyphs in one click
- Use ruler guides to set baseline, ascender & descender lines
- Restore previous session when reloading Illustrator
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2016β03β15
- Drag & drop to create new glyphs (CC 2015 only)
- Use a ruler guide to set the baseline of your glyphs
- Adjust the width of the space character
- Support Unicode characters like β€οΈ β Β© or β
- Update upcoming releases in 1-click (Mac only)
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2016β03β01
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Come on guys, what did you expect? We are really too busy right now to fill this list backwards in time ;-)
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2015β11β04
- Just started cleaning the mess from the POC
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