Features
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Disclaimer
MkFont is under active development, as such you may encounter issues. In the unlikely event that you would, please report an issue on github!
Same place if you would like to suggest enhancements & features that would make MkFont even more useful for you :)
Components
Make more with less!
A powerful component & compositing system, allowing for clever automation and infinite possibilities.
Unicode Browser
MkFont is Unicode compliant.
Code points are organized by categories & blocks, immediately accessible and search-able.
Smart Search
A discovery tool that offer more than meet the eye.
You can search for specific characters, but also names & attributes. The search can look for known character association & relationships, too!
Ligatures made easy
Analyze text to find & add most common combinations
MkFont comes with a small tool that takes a text blurb to show you which group of letters are recurring – and create ligatures out of them.
Batch import
Quick & easy
Import loads of SVG at once, with multiple ways to assign them to glyphs/code-point.
Import directly to your current selection, or to specific Unicode blocks.
3rd party automation
One-click documents & artboards setup, ready to export.
MkFont comes with built-in automation tools for Adobe© Illustrator, for an even smoother workflow. Finger crossed more tools gets that kind of support soon!
And more!
A bunch of discreet QoL features.
Lots of small options & features to make it easy to work with your glyphs with third parties such as Unity’ TextMeshPro.
Current limitation
MkFont does not support kerning pairs yet. And it may not ever.
Something that will be implemented in the future to circumvent that limitation is creating special ligatures that combine existing glyphs within the font, but it does come with other caveats such as issues arising when tweaking the letter spacing in the final rendering context. （＞人＜；）
Planned features
Here are some of the features currently under development or planned to be, at some point, soon, maybe.
In no particular order.
| Working title | Use |
|---|---|
| Showcase Generator | Quickly generate a nice looking visual with your glyphs to showcase it, exports as a .png file. |
| Glyph as components | Ability to combine existing glyph into another. This would be especially useful in order to re-user marks & modifier along with unmodified glyphs and not duplicate the work/amount of assets required to have a fully functional font |
| Glyph layers | Similar to Glyph as components, working the ability to use existing glyphs as additional “layers” inside another Glyph. Glyph would either be used as-is, or with its path reversed in order to create “holes” – hence making icon font much more flexible. |
| Add existing glyph to Adobe© Illustrator automation | Currently the Adobe© Illustrator automation only creates blank templates. Wouldn’t it be nice if it could also import existing glyphs within the font? |