typeface versions

v3.6 [Jun 8, 2022]
Don’t you hate it when you’re neatly organising your font library only to discover that some fonts are not properly grouped into the correct family? Separate font variants (regular/bold/italic) may each show up as separate families. Or maybe you have multiple foundry versions of the same typeface, and you need to be able to choose which specific family to activate.
The all new Family Editor allows you to fix all these family problems! You can dive in there and batch adjust the family of each individual font. Or use the smart suggestions feature to quickly apply automatically suggested family merges and splits.
Note: the font files that contain the actual family information are not touched. That means that family changes are only visible in Typeface, not in other apps.
But that’s certainly not all: there are multiple improvements to the Duplicates Finder, including the ability to select duplicates by folder. And Typeface is now fully translated to German by Karsten Müller — Viel Spaß!
NEW
• Family Editor — Merge and split font families
• Added right click family context submenu, which allows you to edit a family and view all current family members
• Added File > Manage Families, to manage all font families in your library
• View and apply automatic family split and merge suggestions, based on your currently imported font locations
• Added German localization
• Select duplicates by imported location in the Duplicates panel
• Right click on a path component in the Duplicates panel to automatically select duplicates by subfolder
• Right click on a duplicate header to auto select duplicates for that particular name only
• Added Typeface backup file extension, open directly from Finder
• Backup and restore modified families
IMPROVED
• Added keyboard navigation in Duplicates Finder
• Double click or Command click to select a duplicate for removal in Duplicate Finder
• Show font file location relative to imported location when clicking on the location tag in Duplicates Finder (hold down Option to show full path)
• Double click on a subfolder in the Duplicates panel to reveal that subfolder in Finder
• Show full path for fonts located in special macOS CloudStorage folder used by cloud syncing apps
• Headers in context menus are bolder to make them visually different from unavailable menu items
• Reduced memory usage for Intro and In-App Purchase panels
• Show characters from Unicode supplementary private use area (0xF0000+)
• Show permanent Typeface menu item in window menu to reopen main window when closed
FIXED
• Prevent crash when removing an already removed tag from the Multi Attach panel
• Don't automatically try to select a tag if it's not available yet after renaming in the sidebar
• Prevent crash when inspecting OpenType features for font with corrupt ligature table
• Allow reverting preferred font activation setting back to 'persistent' when using legacy Typeface 2 license
• Correctly handle license registration when trying to register the currently registered license
• Prevent crash when multiple exact duplicates are found for the same PostScript name
• Retina rendering of icons when switching from non-retina to retina screen

v3.5 [Dec 20, 2021]
Lots of small improvements in this update to make certain features easier to discover for new users and advanced options quicker to access for veterans.
You can now press & hold on many buttons to get access to context menus. This works for all toolbar buttons, sidebar headers, activation indicators, collected fonts and OpenType filters. Furthermore the search field has been improved, you can type to scroll to a specific font in the grid and you can customize the toolbar drop action. Try them out to improve your workflow — enjoy!
NEW
• Type to scroll to fonts starting with a specific prefix. For example type 'he' to jump to Helvetica
• Added grid toolbar button for convenient access to some grid options
• Press & hold toolbar buttons to get a menu of options
• Press & hold the activation icon to get activation options for a font
• Press & hold the Quick Collect icon of collected fonts to quickly access tagging, activation and clearing options
• Show context menus when clicking on sidebar header icons
• Add a tag to the search filters from the sidebar context menu
• Added Refresh All option to refresh all imported locations when clicking on imported locations icon in sidebar
• Customize drop action when dragging fonts to the toolbar. Right click on the toolbar to choose a different option. Multi Attach is the default option.
IMPROVED
• Added new import submenu, with options for Adobe Fonts, Google Fonts, Font Book and Supplemental System Fonts
• More uniform sidebar icons, new icons for Adobe Fonts and Google Fonts, improved toolbar icons
• Allow click and hold for buttons showing context menus
• Enable double click to view details by default when using Click to Collect
• Ask for confirmation when trying to activate more than 50 fonts at once
• Added Hide Fonts Missing Glyphs to advanced filter menu. Search field will show a highlighted icon when the filter is active
• Show information on how to filter tags when the search field is in focus
• Press Option to add an inverted tag suggestion to the filters when searching
• Filter tags by typing a : in the search field (same behavior as #)
• Automatically expand search field when search terms are overflowing the field
• Clear collected fonts while dragging by holding down Option+Shift keys instead of just Shift which may have been confusing
• Changed visuals of dragging image when holding down Option+Shift to clear collected fonts
• Improved performance of copying paths of multiple fonts
• Show System, Untagged and Font Book by default in sidebar, can be hidden
• Show information about app communication permissions when using Font Switch for the first time
FIXED
• Don't launch Typeface when InDesign Auto Activator has been enabled and Typeface has been closed
• Briefly highlight previews when attaching or detaching a tag
• Prevent crash when showing OpenType features of font with incorrect GSUB lookup records
• Don't allow new lines when creating tags
• Select inserted text when pressing Command-Shift-left/right arrows when searching
• Prevent selecting tag suggestions under the current mouse position when searching tags
• Correctly scroll previews when resizing previews to smallest size
• Don't show preview border when clicking on the activation indicator and Click to Collect is enabled
• Prevent highlighting Quick Collection icon when removing fonts from the Collection in certain occasions
• Correctly align Quick Collection count when highlighting
• Prevent crash when removing PostScript Type 1 fonts with unexpected file type codes

v3.1 [Jun 7, 2021]
- Allow activating and deactivating the Manual tag in the sidebar.
- (De)Activating tags in the sidebar will now target fonts from subtags as well.
- Show alerts when importing/exporting tag backup files fails.
- Start Auto Activation sooner at launch.
- More robust file descriptor limit increase.
- Slightly increased size of app icon.
- Added support links to Introduction screen.
- Spacing between Preference toolbar icons on Big Sur.
- Background shadow for search suggestions panel on Big Sur.
- Correctly handle advanced contextual OpenType features, prevents crash for ‘Libre Barcode EAN13 Text’ font.
- Prevent conflict alerts on InDesign Auto Activation requests.
- Prevent app freezes on System Auto Activation requests.
- Correctly disable Auto Activators when necessary.
- Properly position back button and window title on macOS Sierra/High Sierra.
- Prevent scrollbar when showing IAP window and scrollbars are always visible.
- Allow launching Support Tools when database cannot be opened.