SuperTool is a plugin for the Glyphs font editor which provides:
- Curvature visualisation
- Harmonization
- Path simplification
- Tunni line manipulation
- Balancing
- Stem thickness visualisation
The best way to install it is through the Glyphs plugin manager.
If you have any issues, please report them on the project issue tracker, github.com/simoncozens/SuperTool/issues
The Tunni lines were invented by Eduardo Tunni and the FontLab team, and are part of the FontLab font editor. The SuperTool implements Tunni lines for the Glyphs font editor.
The Tunni curve manipulation algorithm was first described by typeface designer Eduardo Tunni in the mid 2000s, and the first implementation was by Andrés Torresi as a FontLab 5 python script in 2012. Andrés had studied under Eduardo at the University of Buenos Aries in the FADU Masters Tipografia programme. The Tunni Line and Tunni Point user interfaces were first described by Adam Twardoch and implemented by Yuri Yamola as a FontLab 6 feature in 2015.
The curvature visualization user interface is commonly called a "comb" and opinion varies on how useful this visualization is. The first implementation of curve combs in a font editor was by Yanone in his Speedpunk plugin for RoboFont, which he later ported to Glyphsapp. FontLab 6 also implements this feature.
The SuperTool project was initiated by Simon Cozens in 2016 and distributed as a proprietary Glyphs plugin, with per seat licensing. In 2019 the copyright was acquired by Google and made available under a permissive libre license (Apache.)
This is not an officially supported Google product, and Google provides no support.
Copyright 2016 The SuperTool Project Authors.
SuperTool is available under the Apache 2.0 license.