Changelog

July 2026

• Replaced kerning artboards with a kerning tool with freeform text artboards for testing letter spacing and pairs directly on the canvas.
• Greatly improved sidebearing and advanced width adjustment experience. No longer applying incorrect conceept of advance width to glyphs.
• Added a shimmer animation to the canvas while AI glyph generation is in progress.
• Made new workspace setup transactional so an interrupted signup no longer leaves an account partially configured.
• Fixed incorrect glyph advance-width and ink-width calculations, with a one-time backfill correcting previously affected glyphs.
• Rectangles and ellipses now stay as native shapes and can be converted to editable bezier paths on demand, preserving fill, stroke, and undo history.
• Fixed the canvas visibly stretching and snapping back when resized, by rendering the new frame synchronously.
• Fixed broad nib strokes losing their sharp corners where the stroke crosses over itself.
• Fixed broad nib stroke corners not repairing correctly when overlapping strokes were combined.
• Added overshoot zones to the font metrics editor for precise visual alignment guides
• Made nudging and exported coordinates align to font units.
• Rendered artboard labels directly on the GPU and removed the DOM-based label overlay
• Fixed snap-to-grid behavior for drag operations and corrected the artboard grid origin
• Added a transform panel to the node card for editing position, rotation, and scale
• Added a changelog page so you can see what's new in Nib
• Reduced WebGPU idle rendering overhead for a smoother editing experience
• Improved the font preview input and now show tofu for glyphs that have not been drawn yet

June 2026

• Added a glyph model selector for choosing which AI model generates glyph images
• Pointed collaborator cursors at the exact glyph being edited
• Added Paper Mono as a new starter font