Type design, made intuitive
Overshoot has the depth professional type designers rely on: masters, variable fonts, smart components, kerning groups and full OpenType support. It keeps all of that in a clean interface that responds the moment you touch it. Selecting points, using shortcuts and moving around feel like the design tools you already know, so you spend your time on letterforms instead of fighting the software.
The real glyph editor, cut down to its canvas. Nothing is saved.
- ⇧-click adds to the selection
- Drag on the canvas to select (⌥ lassos)
- ⇧-drag keeps to one axis, or a handle to its angle
- ⌥-drag moves one handle alone
- ⌘-drag a handle makes a corner
- Click the outline to add a point; ⌘-drag it to bend
- Double-click a point for corner or smooth
- Arrows nudge, ⇧ by 10; ⌘Z undoes
Live previews
Every change shows up right away in real text. Drag a point and the line below the canvas updates as you move, so you see the letter in words, not on its own. Preview any weight or any point between your masters, at any size and in any colours. You’ll know how the face reads long before you export it.
Set in Sample Sans, with the a from the editor above. Reshape it and every a here follows.
A simpler approach to spacing
Start from the proven proportions of a classic typeface. Each letter you haven’t drawn yet shows its box, with its width and sidebearings already set, so your first shape lands where it should. As you refine an outline, the sidebearings stay put and the width adjusts around them. When it’s time to fine-tune, every letter shows its numbers in the spacing view, and you can click any of them to change it.
Draw, comment and proof together
Share a typeface and work on it with others in real time, watching each other’s edits as they happen. Pin comments to a curve or a junction, reply in threads, and resolve them when they’re fixed. Everyone proofs the same live font in paragraphs, waterfalls and headlines, so feedback is always on the latest version.
Could the terminal open up a little? It feels tight at small sizes.
Opened it by 12 units in both masters. Check the waterfall.
Learn as you go
Short, hands-on lessons take you from your first open corner to italics and OpenType features, each in a practice typeface you can’t break. While you draw, Overshoot points out stray points, missing extremes and outlines that sit just off a metric line. You learn good habits early, and you don’t find the mistakes later in print.
Start your first typeface
Free to use. Pay once to export a family, or go Pro for everything.
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