Keyboard shortcuts

Custom shortcuts

  1. Go to the menu bar, Fontra -> Application settings
  2. there you’ll find a panel to set custom shortcuts for various items (menu items, tool selection, sidebar selection, glyph editor appearance toggles, and more)

Some of the predefined shortcuts

Mac Win or Linux Description
+ Z Ctrl + Z undo the last action
+ + Z + Ctrl + Z redo the last action
space space preview with filled contours + without left and right info sections + hand tool
+ - Ctrl + - zoom out
+ + Ctrl + + zoom in
+ 0 Ctrl + 0 zoom fit to selection
1 1 switch tool to Pointer tool:
2 2 switch tool to Pen tool:
3 3 switch tool to Knife tool:
4 4 switch tool to Shape tool:
5 5 switch tool to Power ruler tool:
6 6 switch tool to Hand tool:
+ a Ctrl + a select all points + components, second time: include anchors + third time: only anchors
+ + a + Ctrl + a select none
+ c Ctrl + c copy selection or glyph
+ v Ctrl + v past selection
+ x Ctrl + x cut off selection
+ Delete or Backspace Ctrl + Delete or Backspace delete selection or glyph
+ f Ctrl + f toggle glyph search
+ i Ctrl + i toggle info section
+ e Ctrl + e toggle edit all source layers
+ Ctrl + select previous source layers
+ Ctrl + select next source layers
+ + d + Ctrl + d decompose components