Browse your fonts
See installed fonts and folders you choose. Live folders watch for changes while Typefield is open; Google Fonts can be previewed before downloading.
Everything in
Typefield.
Browse and organize fonts, build typeboards, draw letterforms, and take your work into other tools.
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Library.
Get a clear view of the fonts already on your Mac, then keep the useful ones close.
Find the right face
Search and filter by category, source, writing system, weight, coverage and OpenType features. Save searches to revisit a view of your current catalog.
Compare in context
Set your own preview text, inspect every family style and variable axis, use color overlays, or build a shortlist of up to six families.
Make it yours
Keep favorites, collections and nested tags. Group families, revisit recent imports and review exact duplicates before removing files.
Rediscover a favorite
Local Find similar and Rediscover suggestions use font metadata and explainable visual signals from fonts on your Mac.
Inspect the details
Explore glyphs, Unicode coverage, metrics and font health. Export original files or temporarily activate eligible fonts for other Mac apps.
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Spaces.
Try typography in layouts you can actually edit, compare and carry forward. Pop Spaces into its own window and drag fonts from separate collection, folder or shortlist browsers onto text.
Start with a layout
Use Website, Product UI, Editorial, Poster or Type system canvases, or build a custom one. Organize canvases into typeboards and Spaces.
Tune seven type roles
Set Display, Heading, Subheading, Body, UI, Caption and Monospace fonts. Adjust axes, OpenType features, size, line height, tracking, kerning and color.
Edit on the canvas
Change text in place, add artwork, move and resize layers, compare directions side by side, and switch between two same-size options with Quick A/B.
Find a pairing
Get local suggestions from your own font library, with readable reasons for contrast, proportions and role fit. Choose what goes into each role.
Keep the work
Save typeboards and checkpoints, export portable Space JSON, or create a Library collection from a canvas, typeboard or whole project.
Check web font cost
Audit selected styles and compare compatible variable and static files. Exact download weight appears only when Typefield can match a licensed WOFF2 file to a face.
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Letterform Editor.
Make your own letters with drawing tools and editable outlines. Pop out the core editor, adjust or hide the character rail, and collapse metrics for more drawing room.
Draw your way
Draw cubic Bézier paths in Vector mode, or sketch with Round, Marker and Outline pens. Smooth strokes and erase whole strokes.
Edit the outline
Move nodes and handles, work with counters and contours, transform shapes, set metrics and side bearings, and use Undo/Redo while refining a glyph.
Bring in artwork
Import PNG, JPEG, TIFF, HEIC, outlined SVG or a Procreate embedded preview. Review one letter or an alphabet sheet before tracing it into editable outlines.
Build a font
Reuse linked components, keep separate editable masters, add Unicode characters and set kerning groups or pair exceptions.
Proof and export
Try drawn glyphs in words, preview a smoother trace, export selected glyphs as SVG, or create a validated static TrueType font. Two compatible masters can export as a variable weight font.
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Handoffs.
Take a type direction into design and development tools with files you control.
Review-ready files
Export canvas PDFs and a multi-page type-system PDF, plus compact or detailed typography specifications in text or Markdown.
Figma
Export a package for the bundled local importer to build editable frames, text and simple shapes. Selected Figma frames can come back through JSON.
Illustrator and InDesign
Run exported JSX builders inside Adobe apps for editable native documents. A separate return bridge brings supported text and shapes back as JSON.
Developer handoff
Generate CSS font declarations and variables, token JSON, fluid type suggestions, Tailwind setup, SwiftUI and Compose starters, and a printable specimen.
Handoffs reference fonts by name. Typefield does not bundle licensed font binaries; use font files you have the rights to share. Figma and Adobe workflows use exported files, not live sync.
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Mac specs.
A native app with local projects and your own font library at its center.
- System
- macOS 13 or newer
- Processor
- Apple silicon
- Access
- Free public beta; no Typefield account or license key
- Appearance
- Light and dark themes with optional accent colors
- Storage
- Library and projects stay on your Mac, with local backups
- Font access
- Choose folders to watch; temporary activation is opt-in
In this beta, SVG artwork is rendered and traced, and Procreate import uses its embedded preview. Variable weight export requires exactly two compatible masters. Automatic missing-letter suggestions are not available.