Glyphon
Graphics & Design
Free
Glyphon is a pixel font editor built for anyone who loves the craft of bitmap typography. Whether you're designing a retro game font, a lo-fi display face, or a complete character set, Glyphon gives you the tools to draw, refine, and ship your typeface — at your desk or in your pocket.
DRAW PIXEL-PERFECT GLYPHS
Work in a large pixel grid with pinch-to-zoom, a toggleable grid overlay, and draggable typographic guides for baseline, cap height, x-height, ascender, and descender. Drag any guide directly on the canvas for instant precision. Every stroke is undo-able.
FULL UNICODE SUPPORT
Your font isn't limited to the ASCII alphabet. Add glyphs for any Unicode range — Basic Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Greek, Hiragana, Katakana, Box Drawing, and more — in a single step.
EXPORT TO INDUSTRY FORMATS
When your font is ready, export it as:
- TTF — install directly on your Mac or share with other designers
- BDF — the open bitmap standard used in embedded and terminal applications
- JSON — a portable format for round-tripping with the Glyphon web app
DESIGN WITH PRECISION
- Per-glyph advance width with a live visual indicator on the canvas
- Origin-aware horizontal flip that keeps your left-bearing columns in place
- Shift pixels in any direction with a single tap or keyboard shortcut
- Copy and paste pixel designs between glyphs
- Flood fill for closed areas
LIVE PREVIEW
See your font render real text as you draw. Type any sentence into the preview strip to test spacing, rhythm, and readability at a glance.
SYNC ACROSS YOUR DEVICES
Start a typeface on your Mac, refine it on iPad, finish a stubborn glyph on your phone. iCloud sync keeps every font current on every device — automatically. Each font is still a self-contained file you own.
DESIGNED FOR MAC, iPAD, AND iPHONE
Glyphon is a native SwiftUI app, at home on every Apple device. On Mac, every action has a keyboard shortcut. On iPad, pinch to zoom and swipe between glyphs. On iPhone, the full editor fits in your pocket — draw a font in a boring meeting and it'll be waiting on your Mac when you get back.
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Fixing a grid resize bug that could cause data loss, and makes all edits fully undoable including metric changes and resizes.
The developer, Jussi Edlund, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Jussi Edlund
- Size
- 2 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Jussi Edlund
