Glyphs mini capabilities

Glyphs
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I was about to suggest Glyphs mini on a slack channel for local designers, to an UI designer having trouble with home-made icon fonts.
He’d made the icon fon in some icon app, and he was looking to fix a path direction issue.

I checked glyphsapp.com to see if Glyphs Mini would be a good purchase to solve the problem and saw that Glyphs Mini doesn’t do WOFF2.
I recommended it anyway (with the caveat that it doesn’t do WOFF2).

I thought you’d like to know, since otherwise Mini would be a great companion app for icon font makers.

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While Glyphs Mini doesn’t export web fonts, you can use, for example, the fonttools Python library in order to do the compression from TTF/OTF to WOFF2.

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There are a number of converter tools available.

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@SCarewe: you can use, for example, the fonttools Python library
When discussing glyphs mini, a casual user app, gateway drug to full Glyphs even, expecting them to figure out python is a bit much to ask for from a casual user :slight_smile:

@GeorgSeifert: There are a number of converter tools available.
For sure. I feel that the Glyphs brand is about being a bit of a one-stop-shop and easy to use (relatively speaking). So I just wanted to suggest this as a thing that might sweeten the deal for the Glyphs Mini audience, since it’s not a power-user feature anymore, webfonts are pretty standard.
I’m not seeking to debate, I respect whatever business decisions are made, I just wanted to get that point accross, for you to consider. It’s a great product with or without it.

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We are planing a bigger update of Glyphs Mini. We will discuss the support for webfont export for it.

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