Typeface 3.0.1

Typeface is a beautiful font manager that helps you pick the perfect font for your designs. Effortlessly organize your library with flexible tags and improve your design workflow by visually browsing through live font previews.

Good typography is one of the most important aspects of design, but finding the font that conveys just the right emotion can be a difficult task—especially if you’re not sure yet what you’re looking for. With a minimal interface and total focus on your fonts Typeface makes choosing fonts fun and easy.

FOCUS ON YOUR FONTS

• Perfectly rendered previews
• Live customization of preview text & size
• Intuitive & minimal UI that doesn’t distract
• Light & Dark theme for day and night

IN-DEPTH ORGANIZATION

• Easy to use & flexible tagging system (combine, subtract, invert & nest)
• Powerful search & filters (weight, width, x-height, figure styles, OpenType feature support, variable fonts, color fonts, file types, manufacturer and more)
• Smart sidebar (auto collapse, tag highlight, drag & drop)
• In-place font activation & deactivation [PRO]

IMPROVE YOUR WORKFLOW

• Collect font candidates using the Quick Collection
• Review & refine your selection
• Export a PDF to share with colleagues and clients
• Store the selection by attaching tags

REVEAL EVERY DETAIL

• View unicode character support [PRO]
• Preview full body text layouts [PRO]
• Inspect OpenType font features [PRO]
• Get detailed font info

AND MUCH MORE

• 2000+ free fonts from the Google Fonts catalog
• Support for ttf, otf, dfont, ttc, woff and PostScript Type 1 font suitcase
• Auto synchronization of imported directories [PRO]
• Temporary font activation [PRO]
• Group fonts by family
• Filter fonts by characters
• Auto font style classification
• Adjust letter s p a c i n g
• Left/right/center alignment
• Metrics overlay
• Advanced OpenType support [PRO]
• Variable fonts tuning [PRO]
• Import Font Book collections
• Dynamic previews
• Export & Import tags
• Convenient keyboard shortcuts
• Import Adobe fonts
• Auto activation [PRO]
• Tagged and Untagged meta-tags
• Background mode
• Font context info [PRO]
• Quick multi tagging [PRO]
• Compare fonts using A/B font overlays

TYPEFACE PRO
The Typeface free download provides limited functionality to try out the app. Get PRO to unlock all these features:

• Persistent & temporary font activation
• Font characters overview
• Body text layout previews
• OpenType feature inspection
• Temporary font activation
• Variable fonts tuning
• Quick tagging
• Advanced filters
• Font context info
• Import font files and directories

What’s New:

Version 3.0.1
Fixed in 3.0.1:

• Correctly sync imported locations when the case of its path has changed
• Typo in preferences — Improted is not a word
• Prevent crash when previewing variable font that has a variable without a range
• Rename tags that start with a leading ! that’s not allowed anymore!
• Correctly show Google sync state in Preferences
• Improved recognition of current macOS theme when it’s set to auto switch
• Make sure in-app purchase window and feedback window use app theme
• Prevent clipping of ‘Purchase’ button on Mac App Store license view

TEXT LAYOUTS

• Added new ‘Text’ detail page to preview body text
• Multiple templates to preview how a font looks in different layouts: book, columns, magazine, quote
• Create your own custom layout templates

OPENTYPE FEATURES

• Added Typography main menu item which allows you to toggle OpenType features for all previews
• Ligatures, Oldstyle/Tabular Figures, Alternates, Fractions and more
• Inspect OpenType feature support on the new ‘Features’ detail page

VARIABLE FONTS

• Added new ‘Variables’ detail page for variable fonts
• Fixed: Correctly paint missing glyphs in variable font previews

QUICK TAGGING

• Quickly add or remove multiple tags to/from fonts
• Summon the panel on trackpads by tapping with three fingers, or using Force Touch
• Choose Tags > Attach… from the context menu or Edit > Tags > Attach… from the main menu (Command-T)
• Or drag fonts to the toolbar at the top of the window

ACTIVATION

• Completely renewed Activation core: much faster activations
• Temporarily activate fonts, which will be deactivated automatically when you close the app or restart your Mac
• Activate or Deactivate tags
• Added deactivation context menu option if both activation and deactivation is possible
• Allow disabling of fonts located in the macOS font directories
• Better messaging when conflicts are discovered or fonts cannot be activated

SEARCH

• Added filters for x-height, number styles, layout features, variable/color/bitmap fonts, file types and more
• Search for Manufacturer/Designer
• Allow diacritic insensitive search for font names

INTERACTION

• Added secondary action indicator in the bottom-right corner of a preview
• Default click action can be changed by adjusting the Default Action setting in Preferences
• Dragging and right click will now target collected fonts by default (change in Preferences)
• Tweaked app colors, improved legibility of font names and activation bullet

IMPORTING

• Completely renewed and more robust file management core: faster synchronization, better import logic
• Remove fonts imported from macOS/Font Book
• Import individual font files directly into the app
• Drag and drop folders or files to tags in the sidebar from Finder
• Move fonts directly to trash from inside the app
• Fonts moved outside of imported directories are now removed from Typeface
• Allow moving Google fonts to a custom location on your Mac
• Don’t wait for background sync when removing imported location from sidebar
• Prevent Typeface from repeatedly asking to connect to unavailable remote location
• Added support for .mrf file extension
• Support localized font names, useful for Japanese/Chinese fonts
• Enable and disable external import locations

OTHER

• Order fonts by import date
• Show fonts in single column
• Customize library tags in sidebar
• Show inverted tag from context menu
• New info context submenu contains info about a font
• New Big Sur app icon
• New empty/loading message icon
• Locale-aware sorting of tags (special chars)
• Drastically improved performance of selection, context menu and dragging many fonts
• Tweaked tag fuzzy search algorithm
• Reworked context menu

Compatibility: OS X 10.10 or later, 64-bit processor
Homepage https://typefaceapp.com/

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