The following keyboard shortcuts can be used to quickly accomplish frequent tasks:
General Shortcuts
Press |
To |
---|---|
Ctrl + Tab |
Next Window |
Shift + Ctrl + Tab |
Previous Window |
Alt + Enter |
Show Font Properties Panel |
F1 |
Help |
Ctrl + F2 |
Show/Hide Font Properties Panel |
Shift + F2 |
Show/Hide Palette Panel |
F3 |
Find Next |
Shift + F3 |
Find Previous |
F4 |
Show/Hide Glyph Properties Panel |
Shift + F4 |
Show/Hide Anchors Panel |
Ctrl + F4 |
Close Window |
F5 |
Test Font as TTF/OTF |
Ctrl + F5 |
Test Font as WOFF |
F6 |
Show/Hide Transform Panel |
Ctrl + F6 |
Show/Hide Masters and Layers Panel |
F7 |
Show/Hide Glyph Validation Panel * |
Shift + F7 |
Show/Hide Status Bar |
Ctrl + F7 |
Show/Hide Variations Panel |
F8 |
Show/Hide Preview Panel |
Shift + F8 |
Show/Hide Color Glyph Member Panel |
Ctrl + F8 |
Show OpenType Designer/ Edit Lookup in Code Editor |
F9 |
Show/Hide Background Image Panel |
F10 |
Activates the Main Menu |
Shift + F10 |
Shows the context menu |
Ctrl + F10 |
Launch MainType |
Ctrl + F11 |
Launch Windows Font Folder |
F12 |
Show/Hide Samples Panel |
Ctrl + F12 |
Launch Windows Character Map |
Delete |
Delete selection |
Ctrl + A |
Select All |
Ctrl + C |
Copy |
Ctrl + E |
Displays the Font Export Settings dialog |
Ctrl + F |
Displays the Find dialog |
Ctrl + H |
Toggle Fill Outlines |
Ctrl + I |
Open Installed Fonts |
Ctrl + J |
Display values as Decimal |
Ctrl + K |
Display values as Hexadecimal |
Ctrl + N |
New Project |
Ctrl + O |
Opens Font or Font Project |
Ctrl + P |
Print Glyph, Font, or Font Properties |
Ctrl + S |
Save Project |
Ctrl + T |
Invert Selection |
Ctrl + U |
Clear Selection |
Ctrl + V |
Paste |
Ctrl + X |
Cut |
Ctrl + W |
Close current window |
Ctrl + Y (or Shift + Ctrl + Z) |
Redo |
Ctrl + Z |
Undo |
Shift + Ctrl + A |
Export font in all formats |
Shift + Ctrl + E |
Export font as Desktop font (ttf/otf) |
Shift + Ctrl + S |
Save all projects |
Shift + Ctrl + W |
Export font as Web font (woff/woff2) |
Shift + Ctrl + Z (or Ctrl + Y) |
Redo |
Keys for working in the Font panel
Press |
To |
---|---|
Enter |
Open Glyph panel |
Backspace |
Clear selected glyphs |
P |
The first 255 characters mapped to the selected glyphs will be placed into the Preview panel |
Shift + P |
Append up to 255 selected glyphs to Preview panel |
Ctrl + Plus Sign |
Increase the cell size |
Ctrl + Minus Sign |
Decrease the cell size |
Ctrl + Shift + Plus Sign |
Increase character size |
Ctrl + Shift + Minus Sign |
Decrease character size |
Ctrl + Mouse wheel |
Change cell size |
Ctrl + Shift + Mouse wheel |
Change character size |
Ctrl + 0 |
Reset character and cell size to their defaults |
Ctrl + 1-5 |
Toggle glyph tag 1-5 |
Ctrl + L |
Toggle category panel |
Ctrl + Alt + V |
Paste Special |
Keys for working in the Glyph panel
Press |
To |
---|---|
Left Arrow |
Pan Left (nothing selected) |
Move selection 10 funits left |
|
Right Arrow |
Pan Right (nothing selected) |
Right Move selection 10 funits right |
|
Plus Sign or Ctrl + Plus Sign |
Increase the zoom factor |
Minus Sign or Ctrl + Minus Sign |
Decrease the zoom factor |
Ctrl + 0 |
Reset zoom factor to default |
Ctrl + 1-5 |
Toggle glyph tag |
Alt + Left Arrow |
Go to previous glyph |
Alt + Right Arrow |
Go to next glyph |
Delete |
Delete selection (e.g. point, contour, or glyph member) |
Backspace |
Delete selected on-curve point and adjust curve |
; |
Set default bearings |
N |
Change selected points to on-curve |
F |
Change selected points to off-curve |
G |
Add guideline through two selected nodes, or add orthogonal guidelines at a single selected node |
A |
Add points after selected points |
H |
While pressed down, hides everything except the glyph |
Q |
Select previous contour/point index or composite glyph member. Use Shift to add to current selection. |
W |
Select next contour/point index or composite glyph member. Use Shift to add to current selection. |
P |
Toggle between point and contour mode |
S |
In contour mode, toggle between scale and skew and rotate. In point mode toggle between move and scale. |
T |
Text |
C |
Toggle between standard and color mode |
K |
Knife (not in color mode) |
M |
Measure |
B |
Paint bucket (only in color mode) |
Z |
Toggle between Zoom to default and Zoom to selection |
/ |
Fit to Window |
Middle mouse button (or space+Left mouse button) |
Pan around the Glyph panel |
Double-click |
While editing an empty or simple glyph, this will switch contour/point mode While editing a composite glyph, this will open the composite glyph member properties window |
Double-click on rulers |
Edit guidelines |
Double-click on guideline |
Adjust guideline |
Shift-click on guideline |
Rotate guideline |
Ctrl + Drag guideline |
Duplicate guideline |
Click on selected contour |
show/hide rotate and skew handles |
Shift + Drag |
Constrain movement, scaling, skew, and rotation |
Ctrl + Drag |
Duplicate selected contour(s) or composite glyph member(s) |
Alt + Drag |
Disable Snap |
Keys for working in the OpenType Designer window
Press |
To |
---|---|
Ctrl + L |
Toggle OpenType script panel |
Ctrl + F8 |
Edit selected lookup in Code Editor |
Insert |
Add new substitution to selected lookup table |
Delete |
Delete selected substitution from lookup table |
You can reset all toolbar positions and sizes by pressing the Ctrl key while starting FontCreator.
* Not available in the Home Edition of FontCreator.