The new Font Proofer update also improves the Glyph Grid layout, letting you justify or align glyphs like lines of text and control exactly which metric lines to show (ex: only left and right side bearings). Many more improvements to Glyph Grid coming soon!

Last week’s Font Proofer update brings a lot quality-of-life improvements, including the ability to drag and drop a 📂 folder to add all of its font binaries to a proof—including those in its subfolders! It finds font files up to 4 subfolders deep.

A breakthrough while designing Font Proofer’s new Sorting feature was letting you choose how to sort font styles *without* a value. I haven’t seen this option in any other software. Info like a designer name, a width value, or a custom axis value could be missing—especially in certain font formats. This feature lets you choose whether those styles appear above or below the ones that do have a value.

One of the things that makes Font Proofer’s new Sorting feature so powerful is that it reconciles font info from different formats (static and variable binaries, UFOs, Glyphs masters, and Glyphs instances)—so you can sort any combination of them. And you can now see this info: