Current product guide

A capable font workflow, with its limits in plain view.

Typelure is built for drawing, deriving, proofing, and exporting a single font style in the browser. This page is the source of truth for what the current editor supports—and what still belongs in another production tool.

Open the editor Plan character coverage

Six connected jobs

From a first outline to a testable font file.

Draw and edit real outlines

Work directly with the geometry that becomes the font.

Pen tool for straight and cubic Bézier segments
Point, contour, marquee, nudge, align, flip, and scale controls
Rectangle and ellipse shape tools
Corner, smooth-point, simplify, and smoothing actions
Canvas guides, coordinates, zoom, pan, and measurement
Undo and redo for project edits

Recover editable forms from artwork

Trace lettering locally, then refine it as font geometry.

Raster and SVG source artwork
Threshold, inversion, detail, and simplification controls
Cubic curve fitting for broad and tight curves
Protected corners for serifs and intentional direction changes
Editable output applied to the current glyph
No source-image upload to a Typelure application server

Reuse forms without freezing the design

Keep repeated decisions linked, and detach only the exception.

Create a component from selected complete contours
Insert, duplicate, move, edit, and delete linked instances
Edit the main component and update every linked use
Detach one instance into independent editable paths
Cross-glyph copy, cut, and paste with Bézier handles intact
Foundation guidance for H, O, V, n, o, dot, and apostrophe

Refine a connected type system

Judge spacing, proportions, and coverage in context.

Advance width and left/right side-bearing controls
Baseline, x-height, cap-height, ascender, and descender metrics
Editable proof text with spacing, alphabet, numeral, and language presets
Grouped Unicode glyph navigation with release-goal filters
Foundational derivation and supported Latin accent construction
Local autosave in the current browser profile

Know what is measurable before export

Use clear checks without pretending software can judge taste.

Release goals for a starter proof, uppercase display, Basic Latin, and Western Latin
Missing, empty, and invalid-width glyph recommendations
Naming, metric, Unicode, fallback, and contour-structure checks
A next-action queue organized into Create, Complete, Refine, Test, and Ship
Direct links from findings to the relevant glyph or setting
Visible limitations for checks that still require human proofing

Produce files on your device

Compile the current project without sending the font to a server.

Open TTF, OTF, and WOFF files
Export TTF for desktop testing
Export compressed WOFF2 for web delivery
Parse and compile in a dedicated browser worker
Preserve source projects and downloaded outputs under your control
Review file-format and round-trip boundaries before distribution

Support matrix

Choose files and claims by the next real job.

Import, editing, desktop installation, and web deployment are different steps. A familiar extension does not guarantee that every source table or application behavior survives a round trip.

Read the format guide

Capability	Status	Current boundary
Start a blank project	Supported	Basic Latin starter with a guided release goal
TTF import	Supported	Editable TrueType outlines and core project data
OTF import	Supported with limits	CFF outlines can be opened; advanced table round-tripping is not promised
WOFF import	Supported	Opened locally for editing
WOFF2 import	Not yet	Keep an editable source, TTF, OTF, or WOFF copy
TTF export	Supported	Desktop-oriented current export path
WOFF2 export	Supported	Compressed webfont current export path
OTF or WOFF export	Not yet	No renamed-extension workaround is claimed
Kerning authoring	Not yet	Proof difficult pairs, but finish stored kerning in another production tool
Variable-font masters	Not yet	The current project represents one editable style
OpenType feature authoring	Not yet	Ligatures and substitutions are not stored in the current project model

What automated checks can prove

Typelure can measure mappings, widths, finite coordinates, contour structure, core metrics, naming fields, fallback presence, and completion against a selected recipe.

What still needs a designer

No score can certify curve quality, spacing rhythm, correct language behavior, licensing, hinting, or compatibility in every application. Proof the exported files and document the limits of the release.

Free, local-first workflow

Inspect the real controls on your own font.

No account is required. Start blank or open a supported file locally, then export before clearing browser data or changing devices.

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