Corretto
Font Post-Processing for Glyphs
The Philosophy of Corretto: Set Up and Forget
Corretto will run automatically whenever you export fonts from Glyphs. It scans the current Glyphs source file for custom parameters containing the Corretto configuration, and applies its improvements accordingly.
With Corretto, there’s no need to manually use other tools to apply fixes to your fonts after each export. All versions of your exported fonts will always be up to date.
You save time each time you export your fonts.
Corretto Features
- Produce and update Trial Fonts with ease (coming soon)
- Diversify your font portfolio by offering different language subsets (coming soon)
- Split variable fonts by width, or limit their axis ranges (coming soon)
- Keep your webfonts updated along with your desktop fonts
- Make your kerning work in PowerPoint on Windows
- Apply automatic fixes for specific Glyphs versions with known bugs
- Fine-tune your hinted TrueType fonts
- Improve your version control for font binaries with ttx
Why Post-Processing?
Glyphs is one of the world’s leading font editors. Yet nothing is so good that it can’t be improved or customized. Some issues are caused by the move-fast-and-break-things approach of Glyphs Cutting Edge versions. But some of the stable versions also need a little nudging.
Corretto is being developed by Jens Kutílek, a font engineer with over 15 years of font production experience. He kept hitting special cases in his work with Glyphs, and wrote Corretto to work around issues, and to enhance the exported fonts to his preferences.
Is Corretto For Me?
Some of Corretto’s features are more generally useful than others.
If you ever have wondered how to automatically generate Trial Fonts for your foundry, then definitely. Jump right to our trial fonts example to find out more. Trial font generation will be available soon.
Some other areas of Corretto are more for specialist needs. A large portion of its features are geared towards TrueType font production.
If you have not run into the issues mentioned here yet, you probably don’t need it. But keep Corretto in mind if you should ever come across any obscure Glyphs issues!