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

Alt + 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

Ctrl + F7

Show/Hide Variations Panel

F8

Show/Hide Preview Panel

Ctrl + F8

Show OpenType Designer/ Edit Lookup in Code Editor

F10

Activates the Main Menu

Shift + F10

Shows the context menu

Ctrl + F10

Launch MainType

Ctrl + F11

Launch Windows Font Folder

Ctrl + F12

Launch Windows Character Map

Delete

Delete selection

Ctrl + Delete

Clear Glyph

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

Set as Background

Shift + Ctrl + J

Add to Background

Ctrl + M

Swap with Background

Shift + Ctrl + M

Clear Background

Ctrl + N

New Project

Ctrl + O

Opens Font or Font Project

Ctrl + P

Print Glyph, Font, or Font Properties

Ctrl + R

Repeat

Ctrl + S

Save Project

Ctrl + T

Invert Selection

Ctrl + D

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

Opt+Cmd+F (macOS)

Show or hide the Font Properties panel (Ctrl+F2 on Windows)

Opt+Cmd+P (macOS)

Show or hide the Preview panel

Opt+Cmd+S (macOS)

Show or hide the panels sidebar

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

Arrow keys

Move the selection 1 funit; with nothing selected, pan the view

Shift + Arrow keys

Move the selection 10 funits

Ctrl + Arrow keys (Cmd on macOS)

Move the selection 100 funits

Alt + Arrow keys

In point mode, slide the selected on-curve points along their handles

With Classic arrow key steps on (Options, General page): 10 funits, Ctrl 1, Shift 100

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

, (comma) or Ctrl + [ (Cmd + [ on macOS)

Go to previous glyph

. (period) or Ctrl + ] (Cmd + ] on macOS)

Go to next glyph

Delete

Delete the selection (e.g. point, contour, or glyph member); deleted points leave the remaining contour as close as possible to its original shape

Backspace

Same as Delete

;

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

Click on a segment

In point mode, select the two end points of the segment (Shift adds them to the selection)

Double-click on a segment

In point mode, insert a point on the segment

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 to horizontal or vertical, and constrain scaling, skew, and rotation; a single dragged handle keeps its angle and only changes length

Ctrl + Drag

Duplicate selected contour(s) or composite glyph member(s)

Alt + Drag

Disable snap to grid and guidelines; in point mode, slide the dragged on-curve points along their handles

Shift + Delete or Shift + Backspace

Break contour at the selected node

J

Toggle Show Background Nodes

Shift (with Insert Contour tool)

Constrain the next point to a 45° angle

Ctrl + Drag (with Insert Contour tool; Cmd on macOS)

Move only the outgoing handle of the point, for a corner

Backspace (with Insert Contour tool)

Remove the last point

Enter (with Insert Contour tool)

Finish the contour

Esc (with Insert Contour tool)

Cancel the contour

Ctrl+U

Set Anchors (add the anchors the glyph is missing)

Ctrl+Shift+U

Recalculate Anchors

Delete (Text Tool)

Remove the character after the caret; Backspace removes the one before it

Space (hold)

Pan with the hand tool while the key is held

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