4.7

• Add support for renaming glyphs (in the POST table).

• Add support for filtering glyps. You can keep a small subset and delete all other characters.

• Bug fixes.



4.6

• An additional format for single stroke CNC (engraving) fonts (same way back).

• Bug fixes and updates for older operating systems.



4.5.1

• Single stroke paths for CNC machines.

• Unicode 13

• Four letter vendor ID



4.3.0

• Bug fixes and speed optimizations



4.1.0

• Many improvements to the overview tab



4.0.0

• Better spacing classes. It makes to kerning and spacing of your fonts easier.

• Smaller file size for OTF fonts.

• Many improvements to the underlying engine and plenty of bugfixes in all parts of the program.



3.33.3

• Solve problems in OpenType-SVG fonts.



3.33.2

• Fix SVG folder import.



3.32.0

• Better tools for editing COLR paths.



3.31.0

• Better SVG parsing. Support for the “use” tag in the SVG parser.



3.30.2

• Speed optimizations.

• Bug fixes.



3.30.0

• Support for aalt, a new OTF tag for alternates. Illustrator uses this feature.

• Additional vertical guides.



3.29.3

• Retain view and selected glyph when switching character set in the overview tab.

• Compare both monochrome and color glyph in the editing view.

• Make it possible to import a TTF or OTF glyph even if a Unicode value can't be found for it.

• Menu reorganization (view menu).



3.28.1

• Automatic backups.

• A new tab for creating ligatures.



3.27.1

• Edit COLR glyphs in Birdfont.

• Generate COLR fallback from SVG and vice versa.



3.26.0

• Support for a new color font format: COLR/CPAL.

• Visual feedback when fonts have been exported.

• Set a color as the forground color in COLR glyphs (the color will be selected by the user).



3.25.0

• Better strokes, use less points. Fix bevel and round line joins.

• Center glyphs vertically.



3.24.1

• Add stylistic set substitution, OTF tags ss01 – ss20.



3.24

• Enable comments in SVG file names for designers that imports all files in a folder.



3.22

• Add a customized character set to the overview tab.

• Center glyphs.



3.21

• Import and export large character sets in OTF fonts.



3.20

• Set width for all glyphs at the same time.

• Add support for adjusting line gap.

• Cut paths (Ctrl+X or Cmd+X).



3.19.0

• Fix OTF support (compatibility with After Effects).

• Support for adding new Unicode points.

• Show ligatures in search results.



3.18.0

• Bug fixes: grid, file dialog and special search terms in the Unicode Charater Database (UCD).



3.17.0

• Fixes for SVG files made with Illustrator.



3.16.0

• Theme color fixes.

• Fix resize tool.



3.15.0

• Customizable preview template (HTML).



3.14.4

• Speed optimizations of spacing classes.

• Bug fixes in OTF files on Mac.



3.14.2

• Better conversion from SVG to font.



3.14.0

• Round, bevel or miter line joins.



3.12.12

• Fix SVG import.



3.12.0 (plus)

• OTF support, OpenType Fonts with PostScript outlines.



3.11.0

• A good number of bug fixes.

• New file extension: .birdfont replaces .bf. You can still open your font in older versions of the editor if you change the extention to .bf.



3.9.0

• Adjust underline thickness and position in a font.

• Run faster on Windows.

• Export large (CJK) fonts.

• Fix parsing of TTF fonts.



3.8.3

• Add support for input with Cyrillic keyboards and other character sets.

• Fix ligature encoding.

• Use native file dialog on Windows 10.



3.7.1

• Make sure fonts pass validation in Font Book.



3.6.6

• Fix stroke export.



3.6.2

• Fix parsing of CSS data in SVG files

• Updated Unicode Character Database (ucd)



3.5.0

• Fix Illustrator import

3.4.6 (plus)

• Color font support for Edge

3.4.1

• Support for Arabic scripts

3.2.2 (plus)

• Color fonts

3.1.0

• Better SVG import

2.19.0

• Larger number of kerning pairs is supported in the GPOS table (LookupType 9: Extension Positioning).

2.18.3

• HiDPI support on Windows and bugfixes.

2.16.9

• Change writing direction to RTL (right to left) in kerning tab

• Bug fixes



2.16

• New freehand tool

• Rotate objects and point handles with 45 degree steps

• Bug fixes



2.15

• Speed opimizations



2.14

• Improved vertical metrics in TTF fonts

• Sandbox support on Mac OS

• Bug fixes



2.13

• More descriptive fields in TTF fonts (license, designer, URL etc.)

• Stylistic alternates (OpenType feature tag: salt)

• Small Caps (OpenType feature tag: scmp)

• Capitals to Small Caps (OpenType feature tag: c2sc)

• Swashes (OpenType feature tag: swsh)

• Parse circles, ellipses and lines in SVG files



2.12

• Support for high resolution screens



2.11

• Lock grid and guides

• Merge overlapping regions

• Bug fixes in the TTF generator



2.10

• Layers

• Mac specific TTF fonts (fixes fontbook problems)



2.9

• Fallback font with support for many languages

• Faster GUI



2.8

• Speed optimization in font export

• Faster search queries in the Unicode Data Base

• Better parsing of SVG files generated with Illustrator

• Dialog for importing a folder with SVG files



2.7

• Stroke

• Round line caps

• Bug fixes

