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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.

  

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