Font editor

Where you spend 100% of your time within MkFont.

This is an overview of the Font Editor.

Breakdown

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

Unicode. All of it.

An handy interactive preview.

Your friendly time machine.

Navigate & search through Unicode slots.

Edit individual & multiples glyphs here.

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

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