Fontra Hive
Fontra for Teams
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Fontra Hive adds hosting, history, branches and review to Fontra, for type designers and teams. Start free with one project; Solo is €9 per designer per month excl. VAT, reviewers free (see pricing). Every new account starts with 21 days of Solo, no card asked.
What Hive adds to Fontra
The full Fontra editor in your browser, nothing to install. Hive adds what a type team needs around it: a memory of every change, room to explore, review where the work is, and one shared home for your fonts.
Version history
Each edit becomes a version, signed by who made it, with the sources it touched. Open a glyph's history, hover a version to see it drawn over the current outline, click to keep it on the canvas, and restore it in one step.
Why it matters. Experiment without fear: last week's good curve is never lost, and you always know who changed what, and when.
Snapshots
Give a name to the state of the whole font (“Proof for the client”, “v1.0”) or to a single glyph (“Approved by the AD”). The changes made since the previous snapshot are grouped under it, with who made them and the comments resolved in between.
Why it matters. Your history reads like a project diary: find the version you sent, see what changed since, go back to it if needed.
Branches & merge
Start a branch from main or from a snapshot to try a bolder weight, new alternates or a spacing pass, and switch branches without leaving your glyph. When it works, merge it into main: Hive merges source by source, kerning pair by kerning pair, and draws real conflicts side by side so you pick the right drawing.
Why it matters. Designers explore in parallel without stepping on each other, and main stays clean for everyone else.
Comments & review
Pin a comment to a point of a glyph's source, discuss it in a thread, assign it, label it, resolve it. Sketch on the outline with a red pen, with a mouse or a stylus. Every comment of the project is listed on one page with filters, and opens the editor on the right glyph, source and point.
Why it matters. Feedback lands exactly where the problem is, no more screenshots in emails. And reviewers are free: invite your client or art director.
Real-time collaboration
Everyone works on the same font at the same time and sees who is there. Share a project by username or email with a role: observer, reviewer, designer, manager or admin. Organizations have owners and members, and can keep their projects to their members.
Why it matters. The whole team, and your client, in one place, and everyone changes only what they are meant to.
Import & download
Start a project from any format Fontra reads: .designspace with its UFOs, .ufo, .glyphs, .glyphspackage, .fontra, or a compiled .ttf, .otf or .woff2. Import again later and it becomes a new version. Download the sources from any branch, or fonts built on the server the way Fontra Pak builds them.
Why it matters. No lock-in: Hive fits in with the tools and the pipeline you already have, in both directions.
Git repositories
Connect a project to a GitHub repository, public or private, in two clicks with the Fontra Hive GitHub app. Hive brings in what others push, on an upstream branch you review and merge, and sends your team's work back as one clean commit, with everyone who drew it credited as co-author. .fontra is fully supported; UFO and designspace are in beta (glyphs and kerning).
Why it matters. Developers, build pipelines and font libraries keep working from the repository; designers stay in Hive.
Coming next
More features to come. What you see here is only the start, and Hive grows with the teams who use it. Tell us what yours needs: info@uplustype.com.