BARE

Patch notes

0.9, 2026-11-12

What changed in each release, newest first. The one on the baseline is the build you are using now.

0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.9
One rule for each release, the newest on the baseline.
  1. 0.9 current
    • changed The jokes and filler came out of the copy on the site, in the editor and in the older patch notes.
  2. 0.8
    • changed The copy across the site and the editor was rewritten. The em dashes and middle dots are gone.
    • fixed The editor tour, the small-screen notice and a few status messages were in English only. They are now translated into Turkish and German.
    • fixed On the Turkish and German pages the tour could not find half the panels or the export button, because it looked for them by their English names.
  3. 0.7
    • added Four new tools on the canvas. Transform scales, rotates and moves a selection. Component places one glyph inside another and snaps marks onto anchors. Anchor sets anchors, and guide draws guides at any angle.
    • added Boolean path operations: union, subtract, intersect and exclude. Remove overlap merges every contour into a single outline.
    • added Add extrema, simplify a run of curves by refitting it, round off corners with a real arc, and turn a skeleton into an outline with a round or calligraphic nib.
    • added An accent builder. It draws thirteen accent marks from your font's own stem width, puts anchors on the base letters, and assembles Turkish, German, Western European, Nordic and Central European sets out of components.
    • added Small caps, oldstyle figures and tabular figures, built from what you've already drawn and exported as smcp, c2sc, onum and tnum.
    • added Mark attachment. GPOS mark and mkmk are written from your anchors, along with a GDEF table so shapers know which glyphs are marks.
    • added An outline doctor. It reads the whole font, finds open contours, overlaps, contours running the wrong way, missing extrema, duplicate points, broken smooth points and advances that don't fit, and offers a fix for each one.
    • added Automatic spacing measured from each glyph's profile, and kerning suggestions based on the white space between two letters.
    • added Variable font export. Masters interpolate on every axis they sit on, and the compiler writes fvar, gvar and STAT.
    • added Drop an image on the canvas and trace over it. The image is saved with the project.
    • changed Interpolation now follows the OpenType variation model, so what you see between masters in the editor is exactly what a renderer will draw.
    • fixed On phones the header ran off the right edge. Every page scrolled sideways, the sign-in and account links broke mid-word and the theme button was pushed off screen. The bar now wraps onto two rows.
    • fixed The theme button used a character Bare Sans doesn't have, so it showed up as a smudge in the corner. It's a proper shape now and looks the same in both themes.
    • fixed On narrow screens the language switch vanished from the community page. The rule meant to hide the main menu was hiding the language links too.
    • changed On the account page, changing your password and deleting your account now sit side by side instead of sharing a narrow column beside an empty area. The empty band above them is gone too.
    • changed On phones each patch note shows its tag above the text instead of beside it, so the text gets the full width of the screen.
    • changed The patch notes moved up into the top menu, next to Community. The footer link stays too.
  4. 0.6
    • changed The patch notes moved from the bottom of the landing page to a page of their own at /patch-notes, linked from the footer.
  5. 0.5
    • added A community page where people share the typefaces they drew in BARE. Anyone can open and download them for free.
    • added Share a typeface from the File menu. What goes up is a snapshot, and you can take it down whenever you like.
    • added Every shared typeface gets its own page with a specimen, the character set and downloads in TTF, OTF, WOFF and .bare.
    • changed Typefaces are the only thing you can share. There are no comments and no profiles.
    • fixed The starter typeface drew its asterisk as three thick crossing bars, which looked more like a six-pointed star than an asterisk. It has five arms now and follows the stem weight like every other glyph.
  6. 0.4
    • changed Search results now show BARE as the site name instead of the domain.
    • fixed On the Turkish and German pages the site record pointed at the translated landing page instead of the site root.
    • added Patch notes, at the bottom of the landing page for now.
  7. 0.3
    • added English, Turkish and German everywhere: the landing page, both editors, the panels and the error messages.
    • added A language switch on every page, and hreflang links for each translation.
  8. 0.2
    • added Canonical URLs, structured data, a sitemap and robots.txt.
    • added Share image, app icons and a web manifest.
  9. 0.1
    • added The text canvas, with blocks you can put anywhere, named styles, OpenType features and SVG export with real outlines.
    • added The font editor, with pen, freehand, rectangle, ellipse and knife tools, plus live weight, width, slant and contrast.
    • added TTF, OTF and WOFF written byte by byte by our own code. Every build gets read back and compared against the source.
    • added Accounts, .bare project files and Bare Sans, with 96 glyphs drawn and spaced.