Toolbar»

The Toolbar is where all the tools in FontLab VI are housed. It is docked to the left edge of the screen in vertical orientation by default, but can be easily made horizontal if you prefer.

• You can show and hide the Toolbar by checking/unchecking the Window > Toolbar menu item.

• To undock the Toolbar just press the mouse button anywhere on the grey area outside the buttons and drag-drop it from the screen edge. If the Toolbar was docked vertically it will remain vertical. Similarly if it was docked horizontally, it will remain horizontal.

• When the Toolbar is undocked, you can move or dock it — click and drag anywhere on the grey area outside the buttons. You can dock it to any screen or window edge. When you move it close enough to the place where it can be docked the blue stripe appears. That is the moment to release the mouse and dock the Toolbar. It will be available for every open window if you have several open. It will reconfigure itself as vertical or horizontal to match the screen (or window) edge it is docked to.

• In Preferences > General, if the first icon — All fonts and glyphs open in tabs — is selected, the Toolbar can be docked to windows as well:

You can find the following buttons in the Toolbar:

Icon	Tool Link
	Contour tool (A) for selecting, moving and editing points
	Element tool (V) for moving elements
	Metrics tool (M) for editing metrics
	Kerning tool (K) for editing kerning
	Text tool (T) for text keyboard input
	Eraser tool (Q) for removing non-extrema nodes or, with +Shift+, any nodes
	Brush tool (B) for drawing brush strokes
	Pencil tool (N) for creating and modifying contours freehand
	Rapid tool (5) for very quick drawing of smooth curves
	Pen tool (P) for drawing Bézier curves
	Knife tool (J) for adding nodes and slicing outlines
	Scissors tool (K) for disconnecting or opening contours
	Magnet tool (U) for attaching points to guides
	Fill tool (F) for filling or unwilling contours
	Guides tool (G) for measuring and adding short guides
	Matchmaker tool for semi-automatic masters matching and harmonization
	TrueType Hinting tool (++Cmd-Shift-F7++) for creating and modifying TrueType hints
	Ellipse tool (O) for drawing ellipses and circles
	Rectangle tool (I) for drawing rectangles and circles
	Show All Nodes View > Show > Nodes
	Show Coordinates View > Show > Coordinates
	Show Curvature View > Show > Curvature
	Show FontAudit View > Show > FontAudit
	Show Grid View > Show > Grid
	Show Glyph Guidelines View > Glyph Guides
	Show Font Guidelines View > Font Guides
	Show PostScript Hints View > Show > Hints

See the Tools page for information on activating tools using the keyboard.