Alexandre Saumier Demers
Creates an overlap for the selected points.
contours
Jan Šindler
A RF extension to add guides on a selected segment. Select segment & by default press cmd+/
contours
guideline
glyph
segment
Miguel Sousa
Use adhesiontext.com from within RoboFont
proofing
text
Adobe Type Tools
Preview all base + mark glyph combinations.
accents
David Jonathan Ross
Adjust left and right margins, with options for which glyphs in which fonts.
spacing
Jens Kutilek
A tool for anchor placement, accent preview, and component positioning.
accents
LettError
Shows the ratio between the length of incoming and outgoing sections of bcps and tangents. This can help in preparing masters for interpolation.
contours
interpolation
Frederik Berlaen
Cascade windows inside RoboFont.
workspace
Tal Leming
A tool that automatically updates chosen auto installed fonts after the fonts are edited. It also auto installs chosen UFOs that aren't open in RoboFont.
generating fonts
workflow
Frederik Berlaen
Batch generate fonts in various formats.
generating fonts
variable fonts
Eduardo Manso
Adds guidelines for the current glyph’s bounding box.
design helpers
Connor Davenport
An extension for precision point insertion.
interpolation
drawing
BlackFoundry
Records all actions you are doing while designing.
versioning
workflow
Andy Clymer
Easily edit the PostScript hinting “Blue Zones”
hinting
David Jonathan Ross
Visualize the bounding box of your current glyph or selection.
design helpers
Alexandre Saumier Demers
Draws a broad nib contrast from the background layer.
design helpers
drawing
Roberto Arista
Visualize CNC limitations right in the glyph editor
contours drawing
Alexander Lubovenko
Change character set in current font.
glyph set
Jesen Tanadi
Check if lines connecting BCPs and oncurves are parallel and edit BCPs by manipulating connection line.
contours
design helpers
Alexander Lubovenko
Code theme manager for Robofont 4 Scripting Window.
interface
workspace
code
scripting
Gustavo Ferreira
Diff-compare font tables in two OpenType fonts.
mastering
Ben Kiel
Copies the selected glyphs from one open font to other open font(s).
glyph set
Ben Kiel
Copies point smoothness from one font to another font(s) if glyphs are interpolatable.
contours
interpolation
Alex Jacque
Copies side-bearings from glyphs in one font to respective glyphs in another font.
spacing
Loïc Sander
A set of tools to work on corners of an outline.
contours
design helpers
Jens Kutilek
A panel to adjust and balance curve handles.
contours
design helpers
Lukas Schneider
Live visualisation tool of the De Casteljau curve algorithm
design helpers
contours
drawing
CJ Dunn
Preview how a glyph will interpolate while drawing in RoboFont
interpolation
LettError
Create and edit .designspace documents.
interpolation
mutatorMath
variable fonts
DrawBot
A powerfull 2D graphics scripting tool.
graphics
scripting
Ryan Bugden
Change your font’s dimensions directly in your Glyph Editor.
font info
dimensions
glyph view
LettError
Makes switching glyph, space or font windows super easy.
masters
designspace
interpolation
Frederik Berlaen
Observes events and displays attributes which are available in the callback info dict.
debugging
Jan Šindler
A RF extension to add extrema on path under 45 degrees. Select curve & press cmd+shift+e
contours
extreme points
Ryan Bugden
Highlights points that are aligned with vertical font dimensions or guides.
alignment
guides
font dimensions
Frederik Berlaen
Preview OpenType features.
OpenType features
Ryan Bugden
A button that fits all glyphs into your Font Overview.
font overview
glyph cells
Bahman Eslami
Adds more functions and capabilities to RoboFont and Font objects.
fontgadgets
Frederik Berlaen
View and edit the current glyph .glif data.
debugging
UFO
Tal Leming
A live report about potential drawing issues in your glyph.
contours
revisions
David Jonathan Ross
Search for glyphs using a variety of parameters.
glyph names
LettError
A tool for browsing and selecting unicode values, glyphnames, categories, lists.
unicode
glyph names
languages
glyph set
encoding
Frederik Berlaen
Build new glyphs using Glyph Construction language.
accents
Lukas Schneider
GlyphGiffer lets you export glyphs from a folder of .ufo files as an animated .gif.
Thom Janssen
GlyphMorf is an experimental way for making parametric adjustments for a font.
Rafał Buchner
Tool made for exploring relationships between the components and glyphs.
accents
Jens Kutilek
A glyph preview window that can be freely rotated.
design helpers
Lukas Schneider
GlyphWalker lets you walk simultaneously back and forth through all open fonts while showing the current glyph.
masters
workspace
windows
Frederik Berlaen
Gold fever, everything you space will be gold!
effects
Loïc Sander
Preview spacing settings for several fonts at once.
spacing
Gustavo Ferreira
Enable group spacing in the Space Center.
spacing
kerning
Tal Leming
A tool for editing guides.
guideline
guides
Mark Record
A mini version of the Inspector window for quickly checking and comparing Names/Widths/Unicode.
unicode glyph names
Loïc Sander
Preview interpolation and extrapolation based on master position in a grid.
interpolation
Andy Clymer
Preview an interpolation in the drawing window as you edit, see how the points move my adjusting the slider.
interpolation
Cyrus Highsmith
Visualize and set italic angle and offset values, and skew and reposition glyphs accordingly.
italics
Jérémie Hornus
Displays a slanted guide at the UFO’s italic on mouse down.
italics
Franz Heidl
Transfer glyph sets across fonts in style.
glyph set
Adobe Type Tools
Analyze and fix kerning consistency across several master fonts.
kerning
Frederik Berlaen
Checks kerning in the UFO file and compares it with generated binary font.
kerning
mastering
Alexander Lubovenko
extension for editing Kerning and Margins in Robofont4
kerning
spacing
margins
Tal Leming
A live measurement tool for the glyph editor.
design helpers
dimensions
Frederik Berlaen
A polygon selection tool.
design helpers
selection
glyph
Frederik Berlaen
Preview layers and test install separate layers.
layers
Robert McMurray
Quickly copy layers between fonts.
layers
copy
Typotheque
Text-analysis tool for comparing multilingual texts and measuring the frequency of particular glyphs.
text
languages
LettError
A tool for calculating gray levels at any point in a glyph.
design helpers
Frederik Berlaen
A developer helper which shows internal RoboFont notification logs.
debugging
LettError
A RoboFont Extension that draws previews of interpolations in the glyph editor.
interpolation preview mutatormath variablefont
Bahman Eslami
Tools for adjusting and generating mark positioning feature.
mark positioning
tool
anchor
accent
diacritics
Jackson Showalter-Cavanaugh
See the glyph.markColor in the edit glyph window
workspace
mark
RoboFont Mechanic
Package manager for RoboFont extensions.
extension management
Tal Leming
An environment for experimenting with the Merz data visualization library.
debugging
graphics
interface
scripting
CJ Dunn
Set Space Center based on MM current pair
kerning
Ben Kiel
Applies an encoding file’s glyph order when generating a font.
generating fonts
Frederik Berlaen
Outline strokes.
contours
drawing
Ryan Bugden
Dynamically add overlaps or chamfers to your glyph.
contours
drawing
glyph
David Jonathan Ross
View an overlay of any glyphs from any font behind or beside what you are drawing.
design helpers
interpolation
Mark Simonson
Little window for making pangrams
pangrams
text
Tal Leming
Quickly paste data from a glyph into the current glyph.
design helpers
drawing
Bahman Eslami
Transfer glyph data selectively across fonts using copy paste
paste
transfer
copy
Frederik Berlaen
Perform boolean operations on contours.
contours
Thom Janssen
Adds a PDF button to SpaceCenter.
proofing
spacing
Loïc Sander
Helper for using pens to transform glyph outlines.
contours
Frederik Berlaen
Drawing with pixels.
contours
drawing
Jack Jennings
A simple, centered, 'plumb-line' glyph guide.
design helpers
Tal Leming
Glyph editing tools that pop up only when you need them.
contours
design helpers
drawing
glyph
workspace
Jackson Showalter-Cavanaugh
Adds a menu item with scripts from the current .ufo’s folder
menu
Jérémie Hornus
Show selected BCP distances, number of contours and points, etc.
design helpers
Jérémie Hornus
Converts Cubic (PostScript) to Quadratic (TrueType) contours.
contours
TrueType
Frederik Berlaen
Show neighbour glyphs when editing a glyph.
design helpers
Jack Jennings
Simple, filesystem-based versioning.
versioning
LettError
Preview, edit and generate responsive lettering with svg/html/css/js.
interpolation
Jens Kutilek
Edit and generate color fonts in various formats.
generating fonts
RoboFab Developers
The RoboFab Documentation as a RoboFont extension.
scripting
Frederik Berlaen
A developer profile tool.
debugging
Frederik Berlaen
Keep track of and share a project.
workspace
Tal Leming
An interactive Python interpreter for RoboFont.
scripting
debugging
Jack Jennings
Embedded to-do tracker with font- and glyph-scoped to-do items.
revisions
Frank Grießhammer
Joyful rotation of whole glyphs or selected outlines.
design helpers
Frederik Berlaen
Save a version of UFO next to the current document.
UFO
versioning
Jan Šindler
An extension to scale absolutely in points, not percentages. It adds this option into inspector.
scale
contours
glyph
Loïc Sander
Fiddle with proportions of a glyph while keeping stem widths consistent.
interpolation
design helpers
Timo Klaavo
Arrow tool for scaling curve segments while moving on-curve points.
contours
design helpers
interpolated nudge
Mark Record
A tool like Spotlight/Alfred for quickly finding and running scripts.
interface workflow workspace
Alexander Lubovenko
ScriptsBoard is an extension that adds a quick launch bar for your favorite scripts to the Inspector
workspace
Frederik Berlaen
Draw primitive shapes: rectangles and circles.
contours
drawing
David Jonathan Ross
Display a readout of the unicode character represented by the current glyph, its hex unicode value(s), and unicode name.
glyph names
David Jonathan Ross
Get a live readout of information about the mouse.
design helpers
Frank Grießhammer
Show quick info about point selection.
design helpers
Ryan Bugden
An Inspector panel for manipulating your glyph’s sidebearings.
spacing
Franz Heidl
Equalize sidebearings for given glyphs.
spacing
LettError
Experimental tool for exploring the similarities between glyphs
contours
consistency
similarity
navigation
Bahman Eslami
A bidirectional kerning and grouping extension.
kerning
groups
window
rtl
bidrectional
Frederik Berlaen
Slant glyphs without losing extreme points.
design helpers
italics
Ryan Bugden
Scale your whole font up or down.
scale
UFO
font dimensions
dimensions
Ryan Bugden
A window for diagnosing all angle/ratio interpolation issues.
interpolation
points
Tal Leming
Preview a range of glyphs across your designspace as you draw or kern.
consistency
designspace
drawing
interpolation
kerning
variable fonts
Yanone
Understand and improve your outlines with this curvature comb visualization.
contours
drawing
design helpers
Jérémie Hornus and Connor Davenport
An extension for setting PostScript-hinting stems
hinting
Rafał Buchner
Tool for measuring the thickness of the stem. You can activate it by pressing f in the glyph edit window.
measuring
design helpers
dimensions
Nina Stössinger
Change glyph name suffixes.
glyph names
LettError
Drawing tool for symmetrical round shapes, super-ellipse, oval-like, flat sides, octagons and hexagons.
contours
drawingtool
shapes
Connor Davenport and Andy Clymer
Make and share glyph editor themes.
workspace
LettError
RoboFont extension, a small interactive tool that does a Barycentric interpolation of 3 master glyphs.
interface
masters
designspace
Rafał Buchner
UI hack, that helps you manage or get rid of default toolbar.
workspace
Nina Stössinger
Find touching/colliding glyph pairs.
design helpers
kerning
Frederik Berlaen
Auto trace images.
contours
Jens Kutilek
Display and delete hidden data in your UFOs.
debugging
UFO
Ben Kiel, Ryan Bugden
Visually sets underline and strikethrough values for font info.
mastering
Jens Kutilek
Display Unicode name, block, and glyph name info in a window.
glyph names
OH no Type Co.
Display RF version information in the App menu (restart required)
debugging
workspace
Nina Stössinger
RoboFont extension for making test words.
proofing
spacing
text
Alexandre Saumier Demers
A tool for drawing segments as sausages.
contours
drawing
LettError
Highlight points that are very close to alignment zones.
contours
hinting