
Font Studio: Font Engineer
Create, Edit & Engineer Fonts
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What's New in Font Studio
1.8.3
November 4, 2026
App Localization & 7 Languages - Complete UI Localization: Font Studio is now available in 7 languages — English, Arabic (العربية), Spanish (Español), French (Français), German (Deutsch), Portuguese (Português), and Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia). - Native Right-to-Left (RTL) Layout: full Arabic RTL interface alignment, mirror-aware toolbars, and Arabic typography workflows. - In-App Language Selector: switch your preferred UI language anytime from Settings > Language without changing your device-wide settings. Glyph Designer & Handwriting Creation - Letter Shadow Watermark: display a faint, proportional watermark template of the active character directly on the canvas to guide optical proportions, stem weights, and styling. - Onion Skin Across All Modes: reference the previously drawn glyph in Draw, Pen, and Edit modes to maintain consistent slant, height, and rhythm. - Live Canvas Brush Preview: real-time brush circle preview directly on the canvas drawing area at actual scale, with exact font-unit size readout while adjusting brush settings. - Continuous Lettering Workflow: Draw mode and brush settings persist across glyph navigation for seamless, uninterrupted font making. - Instant Undo & Redo: dedicated undo/redo buttons in contextual toolbars across all modes with immediate reactive history updates. - Natural Alphabetical Sequence: letter strips and font wizard rows are now ordered in standard alphabetical order (A-Z, a-z, 0-9). Type Engineering & Precision Tools - Class-Based Kerning Matrix: 2D heatmap grid, smart auto-grouping by shape similarity, negative value support, and compact GPOS Format 2 compression. - Vertical Metrics Harmonization: 1-click audit and resolution of line clipping across Windows GDI/DirectWrite, macOS CoreText, and Web CSS. - OpenType Auto-Feature Generator: 1-click automatic synthesis of standard OpenType features (liga, dlig, smcp, c2sc, onum, tnum, pnum, frac, ordn, case, locl), plus direct AFDKO FEA code editing. - Outline QA & Fix Extrema: automated detection of missing extrema and inflections with 1-click automatic on-curve extrema insertion. - Live Metrics HUD & Spacing Ribbons: real-time LSB/RSB nudging, customizable word proofing ribbons, and cursive ribbon for Arabic and connected scripts. Fixes & Reliability - Large projects: fixed crashes when saving or reopening big projects. Undo history now keeps your most recent steps, so projects stay fast and small. - Compose Fonts: no more crashes with large fonts (thousands of glyphs) and much faster. Your base font now keeps its OpenType features, kerning, and Arabic joining and mark positioning. - Export, Check & Fix and Optimize no longer crash on very large fonts. - Opening fonts from other apps: TTC font collections, WOFF and WOFF2 files opened or shared from outside Font Studio now open reliably.
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