New: Edit and export OpenType layout features in VOLT syntax
Added resize option to preview area in html test
Updated vendor information
New toggle (z) in Glyph Edit window
Added tag color to tabs
FontCreator 13.0.0.2670 [June 22, 2020]
Use SHIFT-H in Glyph Edit window to only show glyph outline
In Glyph Edit window press ";" to set default bearings
FontCreator 13.0.0.2668 [June 20, 2020]
Fixed rare anchor issue
Improved validation of codepoint ranges
Fixed minor auto-attach glitch (afterwards all glyphs where inadvertently selected)
FontCreator 13.0.0.2663 [June 18, 2020]
Added PairPosFormat1 option
Improved resizing of contours
New resizing selection of points
Added No Tag category
FontCreator 13.0.0.2656 [June 11, 2020]
Added VOLT import support for ligature carets
Fixed import VOLT issue
Improved unused glyphs algorithm
OpenType Explorer supports both glyphs and glyph classes
FontCreator 13.0.0.2655 [June 10, 2020]
Export font as UFO
Better parser validation for class based kerning
New OpenType Explorer
FontCreator 13.0.0.2648 [June 5, 2020]
Improved Open Installed Fonts dialog
Fixed cut and paste glyphs bug
Improved AutoMetrics Preview of figures (digits)
Search box above single and pair pos also supports a single character
Glyph name completion in Insert Glyphs window
Glyph name completion in feature code editor
Added sample text validation
Added glyph hint to Select Class Members dialog
FontCreator 13.0.0.2645 [May 29, 2020]
Improved empty pair positioning compiler check
FontCreator 13.0.0.2644 [May 28, 2020]
Fixed rare mark filtering set bug
New: drag and drop support for lookups in OpenType Designer
FontCreator 13.0.0.2643 [May 19, 2020]
Several AFDKO FEA feature improvements
Added on export exclude legacy cmap option
New context menu item to duplicate a lookup
FontCreator 13.0.0.2642 [May 16, 2020]
Minor improvements to decompiling AFDKO FEA feature definitions
FontCreator 13.0.0.2640 [May 15, 2020]
New: Sort glyphs by glyph names from UFO lib.plist file
Improved .fea syntax support
GDEF ligature carets
FontCreator 13.0.0.2637 [May 8, 2020]
New: Sort glyphs by glyph names from file
Support for editing individual lookup with fea syntax
Import glyph outline from individual UFO .glif file
FontCreator 13.0.0.2636 [May 6, 2020]
New: Open Unified Font Object fonts
New: OpenType feature script editor now also supports AFDKO fea syntax
FontCreator 13.0.0.2630 [April 15, 2020]
Fixed rare export bug
Several minor improvements
FontCreator 13.0.0.2627 [April 10, 2020]
Minor proofing improvements
Improved shaping engine
Improved Web Font Test page
FontCreator 13.0.0.2620 [April 4, 2020]
Further improved Auto Attach
Several anchor related improvements
Minor proofing improvements
Fixed a cursive attachment issue
Fixed issues with Reverse Chaining Contextual Single Substitution Subtable
New: Copy and paste composites in same font
FontCreator 13.0.0.2613 [March 19, 2020]
Improved Insert Glyphs by Name
Improved Auto Attach
Proofing improvements
Fixed an issue with Check for Updates
FontCreator 13.0.0.2610 [March 18, 2020]
Interactive proofing of OpenType layout features
Support for OpenType SVG color fonts
Improved Color Export options
Enhanced Anchor Manager
Fixed issues with anchors
Improved Auto Attach
New range is now optional in Insert Glyphs dialog
Improved Shaping Engine
Improved high DPI support
Added preferred outline format to Options dialog -> Exchange tab
Numerous enhancements and improvements
FontCreator 12.0.0.2566 [March 11, 2020]
OpenType layout improvements
Unicode 13.0 support
FontCreator 12.0.0.2565 [March 6, 2020]
Improved layout engine
Supporting Anchor NULL
Improvements to the Web Font test page
Some bug fixes
FontCreator 12.0.0.2563 [February 21, 2020]
Fixed link to user manual in Welcome dialog
Reduced error reporting in case the font editor raises an exception or crashes
FontCreator 12.0.0.2560 [February 18, 2020]
Fixed color font export issue
Improved font preview for complex scripts
Improved high DPI support
Some tweaks and improvements
FontCreator 12.0.0.2555 [January 24, 2020]
Fixed CFF based font export failure
FontCreator 12.0.0.2554 [January 23, 2020]
Fixed font export issue
Improved high DPI support
Improved check for updates
FontCreator 12.0.0.2552 [January 15, 2020]
Improved WOFF2 export
FontCreator 12.0.0.2550 [January 14, 2020]
Fixed trial outdate issue
Some minor improvements
FontCreator 12.0.0.2547 [September 12, 2019]
Fixed issue with PDF import
Fixed issue with drawing outlines (TCanvasD2D)
Improved font templates
FontCreator 12.0.0.2546 [August 24, 2019]
Fixed issue with 30-day trial period
FontCreator 12.0.0.2543 [July 10, 2019]
The 30-day trial period allows you to use all features, but generated fonts will contain watermarks
Compile OpenType layout feature code will now merge anchors
Within the glyph edit window, hold down the Alt key and click one of the “comparison glyphs” to make it the current glyph
Fixed a bug that failed to correctly export symbol fonts
Updated CompositeData.xml
Updated Unmapped Subscripts for Fractions.xml
Updates to help and manual
Some bug fixes and improvements
FontCreator 12.0.0.2539 [June 4, 2019]
Updated the way Vertical Line Spacing values are calculated
Some performance improvements
Updates to help and manual
FontCreator 12.0.0.2535 [May 23, 2019]
Added option to enter glyphs by code-point in preview text: /$40 or /64
Updated Glyph Properties tool window
Expressions for glyph metrics (left side-bearing, right side-bearing, and advance width)
Included new transform script for Auto-attach
Some bug fixes and improvements
FontCreator 12.0.0.2525 [May 10, 2019]
Unicode 12.1 support
Enhanced font overview categories panel (added Scripts)
Fixed rare issue with formulas
Updated CompositeData.xml
FontCreator 12.0.0.2522 [May 7, 2019]
OpenType Designer remembers last Script and Language settings
Fixed issue with storing preview text
FontCreator 12.0.0.2521 [May 7, 2019]
Anchor based composites
Extended generation of OpenType layout features (frac, liga, mark, mkmk, init, medi, fina, curs, salt, ssxx, cvxx, and many more)
Custom and generic localized forms
Improved generation of friendly glyph names
New glyph sort (design mode)
Unicode 12 support
Comes with ttfautohint version 1.8.3
Improved complete composites
Full undo and redo support
Enhancements to transform scripts
Option to exclude glyphs on export
Support for delete in multiple substitutions
Support for glyph ranges in glyph transformer
Extended Insert Glyphs dialog
Smart glyph switching in Glyph Edit window
Improved OpenType Designer
Improved window tab bar
Extended Reopen menu
New insert glyphs by name
New Option: Decompose composite glyphs with scaled components (Recommended)
Snap to guidelines and grid on resizing a glyph orthogonally
Snap to guidelines and grid for anchor movement
Improved glyph names for release (on exporting a font)
New: sort glyphs in class in class manager
Updated font templates for new fonts
_shaper now supports (basic) normalization
Preview support for comparing same text with different features enabled
View unknown tables
Updated vendor information
Insert Glyphs supports generation of composite from glyph name formula: ffi=f+f+i
Auto Attach repositions glyph members based on anchors
Several bug fixes
Numerous enhancements and improvements
FontCreator 11.5.0.2430 [December 5, 2018]
Fixed SVG import issue
Fixed WOFF 1 export issue
Fixed class0 in preview
Added a generate button to smoothing
Improvements to the user manual
Several user interface improvements
FontCreator 11.5.0.2427 [April 16, 2018]
Support for WOFF 2.0
Fixed issue with exporting CFF based WOFF files
Several user interface improvements
FontCreator 11.5.0.2422 [March 5, 2018]
Several user interface improvements
FontCreator 11.5.0.2421 [February 22, 2018]
Support for Unicode variation sequences
Comes with ttfautohint version 1.8.1
Open contours while designing fonts
Export as single line font (Open contours are not allowed in fonts, so FontCreator will do some magic to make fonts look like single line fonts which can be used for engraving)
Support for last resort fonts
FontCreator 11.0.0.2412 [January 21, 2018]
Bug fix recognizing non-assigned code points
Fixed visual glitch related to XPlacement value
Allow Complete Category for all Unicode blocks
Fixed display problem with Arabic fonts in Microsoft Word
FontCreator 11.0.0.2408 [September 8, 2017]
Bug fix related to exporting CFF based fonts, which was introduced in v11.0.0.2407.
Several other improvements
FontCreator 11.0.0.2407 [September 6, 2017]
Fixed glyph name issue with exported CFF based fonts
Several other improvements
FontCreator 11.0.0.2403 [August 30, 2017]
Improved OpenType layout feature preview
Improved AutoKern and Optical Metrics
FontCreator 11.0.0.2400 [August 23, 2017]
Unicode 10 support
Improved OpenType layout feature preview
New context menu option in Preview to copy input as text to clipboard
Improved AutoKern and Optical Metrics
Fixed duplicate anchors issue
Glyphs shown in edit glyph name feature(s)
Improved class name generation
Fixed outline movement misalignment
New option to keep existing glyph names on opening a font
FontCreator 11.0.0.2388 [June 2, 2017]
Inserted contours that overlap are now added as filled contours
Improved auto-update
Improved suspicious points detection
Improved font installer
Extended New Contour with right-click (quadratic based contours only)
Bug fix in processing chained context substitution
Enhancements to the OpenType feature code syntax
FontCreator 11.0.0.2370 [May 22, 2017]
Bug fix: font install issues
Bug fix related to contour selection
More changes to the way vector based images are imported
Several tweaks
Update: improvements to help and manual
FontCreator 11.0.0.2366 [May 13, 2017]
Bug fix: failed to save Unicode code-points beyond the first plane
Bug fix: failed to edit custom naming fields
Update: improvements to help and manual
FontCreator 11.0.0.2365 [May 10, 2017]
Support for cubic bezier curves (CFF/ PostScript based outlines)
High DPI (Large Fonts) support
New icon set
Font validation improvements (and new Suspicious points)
Improved Complete Composites
Enhancements to Transform scripts
Auto kern now allows composite glyphs to follow base glyph. Also added option to exclude lowercase-lowercase pairs.
Vertical metrics support as requested here. Vertical metrics are only useful with fonts that are used for vertical writing, so in general you'll only need to add it in CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) fonts.
Support for launch custom externals
Improved the installed fonts dialog
Show angle (with a single point) or distance (between two selected points) in status bar
Move cubic control points while forcing "C1 continuity" by holding down the "ALT" key while moving the points.
Updated OpenType features and languages lists
Class Manager -> added option in Select Class Members dialog to filter by AnchorClass
Option for Glyph Fill Opacity in Glyph Edit window
Improved extreme control point detection
Improved moving cubic points
Select Multiple Glyphs in Insert Glyph Member to Composite Glyphs
Convert all outlines to either quadratic or cubic
New Project dialog to support predefined outlines as either cubic or quadratic
Cubic outlines, select on curve point and press 'S' to force C1
Cubic outlines, select on curve point and press 'D' to force vertical or horizontal alignment
Improvements to Add Script, Language, Feature, Lookup dialog
Added a round coordinates button (R)
Fixed AutoKern (and Optical Metrics) bug
Added a smooth, smooth and align, and round coordinates in context menu (point mode only)
Glyph names -> search and replace as well as bulk replace
New "smart delete points" (backspace)
Copy and paste path from Photoshop
Show codepoint of selected glyph in composite glyph member dialog
Optical Metrics no longer wipes the 'use this glyphs metrics' flag
Insert Contour feature will now allow you to define quadratic and cubic curves; based on TrueType outline format in Export settings.
Insert Contour feature will now use click and drag to make curves; right-click no longer adds off curve points (would otherwise be a challenge with cubic curves).
Allow FontCreator to use more memory, which is needed to open/save large font projects. FontCreator can still run out of memory if it requires a large block of memory but can't find any due to memory fragmentation. A 64 bit version has access to more memory, so that is the future.
Replace glyph member within Glyph Edit window. Select one, and right-click, then click replace...
Show Transform toolwindow when editing composites
Minor improvements related to the Background toolwindow
Provide correct contour direction when inserting rectangle and ellipse contours