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Glyphs (font editor)

font editor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ138535578 ↗
Source-derived summary

Glyphs is a font editor for macOS, intended for professionals and advanced amateurs to create digital fonts. Glyphs Mini is a related application with fewer features, at a lower price intended for beginners.

The program was developed by type designer Georg Seifert, with the first version released in 2011. It supports the creation of fonts for all scripts supported by the Opentype standards, and the use of multiple masters, and it can be scripted in Python.

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The public source identifies “Glyphs (font editor)” as font editor. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Glyphs, font and editor.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Glyphs, font and editor providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q138535578. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Glyphs (font editor)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.