Category: Retrospective

  • Even though Glyphr Studio is close to 5 years old, it’s only been in the past year or so that things have really started to pick up.  Learning about all the tools and concepts that go into designing a font, then creating them and shipping them as a web app has been a fantastic learning…

  • Way back in April, 2010, I started a little JavaScript investigation to see if I could use HTML5 Canvas to do vector editing.  I quickly moved to find a use for this… since I was also interested in trying my hand at font design, I decided to start Glyphr, the HTML5 Font Designer we all…

  • The week of March 3rd was the launch of Glyphr Studio Beta 3, and it turned out to be a little more exciting than anticipated. I spent a ton of time that week answering forum posts, emails, and tweets… the whole time completely flabbergasted by the volume of the response.