Changelog
What shipped
Every launch, dated. Each row is a product moment you can open in the app.
- Workspace
Aperture, the typeface everything is set in
font.design now has one face: Aperture — Inter, instanced at a text and a display optical size and made ours, the way the product tells you to start from a great base. Thirty-six styles, and it is open on the Community with Inter credited.
- Aperture: Inter (OFL) with Helvetica-leaning alternates as the defaults, two optical sizes, nine weights with italics, Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Vietnamese — imported as a file with every kerning class, published under the OFL.
- The whole site and the app's own chrome are set in it: the text cut for reading and the interface, the display cut for headlines.
- Import a family: drop every style's file at once and they land in one family; add a style to an existing family from the editor's rail.
- A “Made with font.design” badge for sites that use a published specimen's hosted font — on by default, one switch in Publish to turn it off.
- WorkspaceBeta
The Community
Publish a font for everyone, or open one someone else made — as your own file, under the SIL Open Font License.
- Publish to Community from a font's Publish panel: name it, set its cover in its own outlines, claim your team's @handle.
- Browse by category, search by name, tag or creator; every resource page sets the font from its real outlines.
- Open in Font Design copies the font into your team with its license chain intact; likes and opens show on the resource.
- SpecimenBeta
Specimen is a file
Publish a page for any font: a public URL, the page you design, and hosted font.css on Pro.
- Start one from a font's Share or Publish panel, or from New specimen.
- Hero and sample text, tagline, theme and sections — the page you edit is the page that publishes.
- Publish… gives it a URL of your choosing; Pro pages also serve font.css and font.woff2 for any site.
- DirectionPreview
Direction is a file
Directions now live beside your fonts: their own editor, autosave, Share, and Create font.
- Start a direction from any chassis on the New direction page — free and unlimited.
- The brief, presets and axes on the left; the wordmark, product UI and marketing contexts live in the centre.
- Directions show in Recents, Drafts, projects and Trash like any other file.
- FontNew
Code mode
The editor's Dev Mode: what ships in your kit, the @font-face it contains, and install guides for six stacks.
- Design · Kern · Code on the pill; the inspector's Install tab follows.
- Next.js, plain CSS, Webflow, Framer, Wix, Figma & Adobe guides, written for your kit's files, with copy buttons.
- Plan-honest: a Free team sees exactly which formats it gets and where TTF + OTF unlock.
- Font
The editor's new frame
Menus, a file-name menu, Share and Publish split, a pill with modes, and a tabbed inspector.
- The logo menu maps every action: File, Edit, View, Glyph, Kern, Help.
- Rename, Duplicate, Move to… and trash from the file name.
- Adjust (tracking, spacing, width, slant) lives in the inspector's Design tab.
- Workspace
Files have kinds
Font and Direction chips beside Create, product marks on every card, a Templates page and strip.
- One Create menu lists the file kinds you can start.
- Templates: design spaces to start a direction, Google families to open as a font.
- The team row shows your plan.