German
de, tier A, Deutsch. 64.9 percent of 151 terms have an approved translation or a protected spelling. This measures terminology coverage, not completed prose review or publication approval.
Use the English term until a proposed translation is approved, or when a translation is missing. A protected spelling stays unchanged. A draft English name still requires confirmation even if its spelling is protected here.
Select an English term for its definition and application context. The translator handoff explains how to propose changes.
Names
| English term |
German |
Translation status |
Notes |
| Adobe Illustrator |
Adobe Illustrator |
do-not-translate |
Preserve the product name and any short form established by the English source. |
| app.fontographer.net |
app.fontographer.net |
do-not-translate |
|
| Dream Up |
Dream Up |
do-not-translate |
Feature name. Name the Vexy coins cost in the same German sentence. |
| FLUM |
FLUM |
do-not-translate |
English term: deprecated. Internal name. It must not appear in published German prose either. |
| FontLab |
FontLab |
do-not-translate |
Never inflect the product name. Write 'in FontLab', not 'im FontLab'. |
| fontlab (Python module) |
fontlab |
do-not-translate |
Lowercase module name in code font. Never capitalized in German either. |
| FontLab 8 |
FontLab 8 |
do-not-translate |
|
| FontLab 9 |
FontLab 9 |
do-not-translate |
English term: draft. Draft in English too. Do not use until the English source term is decided. |
| FontLab account |
FontLab account |
do-not-translate |
A brand term, so it stays English. FontLab-Konto is the natural German form and reads well, but service names carry the English name. |
| Fontlab Ltd. |
Fontlab Ltd. |
do-not-translate |
The lowercase l is the company name and stays, including in a copyright line. |
| FontLab Pass |
FontLab Pass |
do-not-translate |
|
| FontLab Studio 5 |
FontLab Studio 5 |
do-not-translate |
English term: deprecated. Historical name. Use it for that version, including migration instructions and exact historical references. |
| fontlab.com |
fontlab.com |
do-not-translate |
|
| Fontographer |
Fontographer |
do-not-translate |
|
| Fontographer.net |
Fontographer.net |
do-not-translate |
English term: draft. English house usage is unsettled. Preserve an exact interface label when required and confirm the intended product context. |
| forum.fontlab.com |
forum.fontlab.com |
do-not-translate |
|
| GlyphRef |
GlyphRef |
do-not-translate |
Python class name. Case sensitive, so it never takes German capitalization rules. |
| help.fontlab.com |
help.fontlab.com |
do-not-translate |
|
| help.vexy.art |
help.vexy.art |
do-not-translate |
|
| pass.fontlab.com |
pass.fontlab.com |
do-not-translate |
|
| Photofont |
Photofont |
do-not-translate |
|
| playlines.vexy.art |
playlines.vexy.art |
do-not-translate |
|
| Strokes Maker |
Strokes Maker |
missing |
English term: deprecated. English fallback. |
| studio.fontlab.com |
studio.fontlab.com |
do-not-translate |
English term: draft. Draft in English too. Do not print it in a German manual yet. |
| TransType 5 |
TransType 5 |
do-not-translate |
The short form TrT stays as it is, if the German text declares it once first. |
| TypeTool |
TypeTool |
do-not-translate |
|
| Vexy |
Vexy |
do-not-translate |
|
| Vexy coins |
Vexy coins |
do-not-translate |
Preserve the protected spelling Vexy coins; do not introduce an alternative spelling in the translation. |
| Vexy Lines |
Vexy Lines |
do-not-translate |
|
| Vexy Linestra |
Vexy Linestra |
do-not-translate |
VexyLinestra.aip keeps the closed up spelling in German paths as well. |
| Vexy Playlines |
Vexy Playlines |
do-not-translate |
|
| Vexy Vextra |
Vexy Vextra |
do-not-translate |
The declared short form Vextra works in German once the text declares it. |
Type design
| English term |
German |
Translation status |
Notes |
| ascender |
Oberlänge |
approved |
|
| baseline |
Grundlinie |
approved |
|
| bowl |
Bogen |
proposed |
German type literature is not settled here. Schale also occurs. A native reviewer decides. |
| cap height |
Versalhöhe |
approved |
|
| character |
Zeichen |
approved |
Zeichen is the Unicode character. Never use it for a glyph. |
| contour |
Kontur |
approved |
|
| counter |
Punze |
approved |
The established German type term. Do not translate it as Innenraum. |
| descender |
Unterlänge |
approved |
|
| extremum |
Extrempunkt |
approved |
|
| glyph |
Glyphe |
approved |
Feminine, die Glyphe. Keep Glyphe and Zeichen apart exactly as English keeps glyph and character apart. |
| handle |
Anfasser |
approved |
Illustrator German uses Anfasser. Kontrollpunkt is understood but longer. |
| node |
Knoten |
approved |
Punkt also occurs, and collides with the typographic point. Prefer Knoten. |
| overshoot |
Überstand |
approved |
|
| segment |
Segment |
approved |
|
| serif |
Serife |
approved |
|
| stem |
Stamm |
approved |
Grundstrich is the older term and still readable. Stamm is shorter and current. |
| terminal |
Abschluss |
approved |
|
| UPM |
UPM |
do-not-translate |
Expand it on first use as Einheiten pro Geviert, then use UPM. Geviert is the German em. |
| winding direction |
Konturrichtung |
approved |
Uhrzeigersinn and gegen den Uhrzeigersinn for clockwise and counter-clockwise. |
| x-height |
x-Höhe |
approved |
Lowercase x with a hyphen, exactly as in English. Never X-Höhe. |
Font engineering
| English term |
German |
Translation status |
Notes |
| advance width |
Dickte |
approved |
The established German term. Do not write Vorschubbreite. |
| alignment zone |
Ausrichtungszone |
approved |
Blue Zone is also understood, from the PostScript term. |
| anchor |
Anker |
approved |
|
| autohinting |
autohinting |
missing |
English fallback. |
| axis |
Achse |
approved |
Plural die Achsen. Axis tags such as wght stay in English. |
| component |
Komponente |
approved |
|
| composite glyph |
zusammengesetzte Glyphe |
approved |
|
| conversion profile |
conversion profile |
missing |
English fallback. |
| CVT table |
CVT table |
missing |
English fallback. |
| design space |
Entwurfsraum |
proposed |
German practice often keeps Design Space. A native reviewer decides which ships. |
| element |
Element |
approved |
|
| element reference |
element reference |
missing |
English fallback. |
| font target |
font target |
missing |
English fallback. |
| hinting |
Hinting |
approved |
German keeps the English word. There is no usable German equivalent in practice. |
| instance |
Instanz |
approved |
|
| interpolation |
Interpolation |
approved |
|
| kern exception |
Unterschneidungsausnahme |
proposed |
Long. Ausnahmepaar reads better in a procedure. A native reviewer decides. |
| kerning |
Unterschneidung |
approved |
Kerning is used just as widely in German practice. Unterschneidung in prose, Kerning where a UI label or a feature tag forces it. |
| kerning class |
Unterschneidungsklasse |
approved |
Kerning-Klasse is acceptable where the UI already says Kerning. |
| kerning pair |
Unterschneidungspaar |
approved |
Kerningpaar is the common short form in UI strings. |
| mark attachment |
mark attachment |
missing |
English fallback. |
| master |
Master |
approved |
German keeps the English word. Der Master, plural die Master. |
| master compatibility |
Masterkompatibilität |
approved |
|
| metrics |
Metriken |
approved |
|
| sidebearing |
Vorbreite und Nachbreite |
approved |
Distinguish the left sidebearing, Vorbreite, from the right sidebearing, Nachbreite, when describing individual fields. |
| stem link |
stem link |
missing |
English fallback. |
| styling group name |
styling group name |
missing |
English fallback. |
| tracking |
Laufweite |
approved |
|
| typographic family name |
typographic family name |
missing |
English fallback. |
| variable font |
variabler Font |
approved |
German separates Schrift, the typeface, from Font, the file. A variable font is a file, so Font. |
| visual kerning |
visuelle Unterschneidung |
approved |
|
OpenType
| English term |
German |
Translation status |
Notes |
| Adobe Glyph List |
Adobe Glyph List |
missing |
English fallback. |
| cmap |
cmap |
do-not-translate |
|
| color font table |
color font table |
missing |
English fallback. |
| contextual alternates |
contextual alternates |
missing |
English fallback. |
| feature code |
feature code |
missing |
English fallback. |
| fractions |
fractions |
missing |
English fallback. |
| glyph index |
glyph index |
missing |
English fallback. |
| glyph name |
glyph name |
do-not-translate |
Glyph names themselves never translate, and the glossary marks the term untranslatable too. Glyphenname is the natural German form if that decision is revisited. |
| GPOS |
GPOS |
do-not-translate |
|
| GSUB |
GSUB |
do-not-translate |
|
| ligature |
Ligatur |
approved |
|
| localized forms |
localized forms |
missing |
English fallback. |
| lookup |
Lookup |
approved |
German keeps the English word. Der Lookup, plural die Lookups. |
| oldstyle figures |
Mediävalziffern |
approved |
|
| OpenType class |
OpenType class |
missing |
English fallback. |
| OpenType feature |
OpenType-Funktion |
approved |
OpenType-Feature is equally common. Feature tags such as liga and smcp stay in English. |
| OS/2 table |
OS/2 table |
do-not-translate |
The glossary marks this term untranslatable, so German keeps the English name. OS/2-Tabelle is the natural German form if that decision is revisited. |
| Private Use Area |
Private Use Area |
missing |
English fallback. |
| small caps |
Kapitälchen |
approved |
Use the term for small-cap letters; keep feature tags such as smcp and c2sc unchanged. |
| stylistic set |
stylistic set |
missing |
English fallback. |
| tabular figures |
Tabellenziffern |
approved |
|
| Unicode codepoint |
Unicode codepoint |
do-not-translate |
The glossary marks this term untranslatable, so German keeps the English name. Unicode-Codepunkt is the natural German form if that decision is revisited. |
| English term |
German |
Translation status |
Notes |
| AI file |
AI file |
missing |
English fallback. |
| AIP |
AIP |
do-not-translate |
|
| FLREQ |
FLREQ |
missing |
English fallback. |
| Fog.net |
Fog.net |
missing |
English fallback. |
| Glyphs file |
Glyphs file |
missing |
English fallback. |
| Lines file |
Lines file |
missing |
English fallback. |
| OTF |
OTF |
do-not-translate |
|
| SVG |
SVG |
missing |
English fallback. |
| TTC |
TTC |
missing |
English fallback. |
| TTF |
TTF |
do-not-translate |
|
| Type 1 |
Type 1 |
missing |
English term: deprecated. English fallback. |
| UFO |
UFO |
do-not-translate |
|
| VFB |
VFB |
missing |
English term: deprecated. English fallback. |
| VFC |
VFC |
do-not-translate |
|
| VFJ |
VFJ |
do-not-translate |
|
| WOFF2 |
WOFF2 |
do-not-translate |
|
Interface
| English term |
German |
Translation status |
Notes |
| Brush |
Pinsel |
approved |
Same collision as in English. Say what the stroke becomes: a Kontur in FontLab, artwork in Vexy Lines. |
| dialog |
Dialogfeld |
approved |
|
| Eraser |
Eraser |
missing |
English fallback. |
| Fills |
Flächen |
approved |
Check the application: FontLab controls filled regions; the Vexy products use Füllmodus for a generative method. |
| FontAudit |
FontAudit |
missing |
English fallback. |
| Groups |
Gruppen |
approved |
Write Kerninggruppe, Objektgruppe, or Stilgruppe. Gruppe alone is ambiguous in German too. |
| Knife |
Messer |
approved |
Name the app and say whether the cut closes the contour. |
| Layers |
Ebenen |
approved |
Ebenen in both senses, so German needs the app name just as much as English does. |
| Masks |
Masken |
approved |
In FontLab write Maskenebene, not Maske, so the reader does not read it as a clipping mask. |
| Matchmaker |
Matchmaker |
missing |
English fallback. |
| panel |
Bedienfeld |
approved |
Use the displayed panel label in the documented interface language. Do not translate a label that the application shows in English. |
| Pencil |
Pencil |
missing |
English fallback. |
| Power Nudge |
Power Nudge |
missing |
English fallback. |
| property bar |
Eigenschaftsleiste |
proposed |
Confirm the displayed label in the target product and version before using the proposed translation. |
| Remove Overlap |
Remove Overlap |
missing |
English fallback. |
| Scissors |
Scissors |
missing |
English fallback. |
| Sigma |
Sigma |
missing |
English fallback. |
| Sketchboard |
Sketchboard |
missing |
English fallback. |
| Smart Corner |
Smart Corner |
missing |
English fallback. |
| Transform |
Transformieren |
approved |
The FontLab panel is das Transform-Bedienfeld. Say whether you mean the panel or the tool. |
Vector drawing
| English term |
German |
Translation status |
Notes |
| Appearance panel |
Appearance panel |
missing |
English fallback. |
| autotrace |
autotrace |
missing |
English fallback. |
| centerline |
centerline |
missing |
English fallback. |
| Fill Grid |
Fill Grid |
missing |
English fallback. |
| fill mode |
fill mode |
missing |
English fallback. |
| G2 continuity |
G2 continuity |
missing |
English fallback. |
| Live Effect |
Live Effect |
missing |
English fallback. |
| stroke |
stroke |
missing |
English fallback. |
| tonal map |
tonal map |
missing |
English fallback. |
| Tunni line |
Tunni line |
missing |
English fallback. |