A collection of operations refine glyph geometry without changing its overall shape. Each acts on the current selection where applicable, or on the whole active layer when nothing is selected.

Optimize Contours

Removes redundant points from selected contours: collinear nodes between straight segments and unnecessary mid-segment nodes that do not contribute to the curve. The visible shape stays the same; the point count drops. Available from the Glyph menu.

Change Contour Direction

Reverses the winding direction of the selected contours. Useful for fixing a path that renders as a hole when it should fill (or vice versa). Available from the Glyph menu and from the right-click context menu.

Smooth Curves

Adjusts off-curve handles around the selected on-curve points so the curve flows smoothly through them. The on-curve point positions are preserved; only the handles move.

Smooth and Align Curves

Like Smooth Curves, but also aligns each on-curve point's two adjacent handles to a shared tangent line, producing a continuous tangent across the point.

Round XY Coordinates

Rounds the coordinates of the selected points to the nearest integer (or to the current grid). Useful before export to ensure clean coordinates in the font file.

Add Bounding Guidelines

Drops four guidelines around the bounding box of the active glyph (top, bottom, left, right edges). Useful for visually aligning sibling glyphs to the same extents.

Add Overlap

Adds a small overlap between adjacent contour segments at the selected node, useful for variable-font designs where overlapping contours interpolate more reliably than abutting ones.

Extend Corner

Extends the two segments meeting at a selected corner point until they intersect at the corner. Useful when the corner has been rounded or chamfered and you want to recover the underlying sharp corner.