Ukrainian¶
uk, tier B, Українська. 19.7 percent of 290 terms have an approved translation or a protected spelling. This measures terminology coverage, not completed prose review or publication approval.
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Use the English term until a proposed translation is approved, or when a translation is missing. A protected spelling stays unchanged. The fallback original term is the plain English phrase to translate when the term itself will not travel; the principles say how to use it. 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.
The Ukrainian localization guide explains the reasoning behind the less obvious choices and the rules that apply to this language.
Names¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Ukrainian | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Illustrator | Adobe Illustrator | do-not-translate | ||
| app.fontographer.net | app.fontographer.net | do-not-translate | ||
| FLUM | FLUM | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| FontLab | FontLab | do-not-translate | ||
| fontlab (Python module) | fontlab (Python module) | do-not-translate | ||
| FontLab 8 | FontLab 8 | do-not-translate | ||
| FontLab 9 | FontLab 9 | do-not-translate | English term: draft. | |
| Fontlab Ltd. | Fontlab Ltd. | do-not-translate | ||
| FontLab Pass | FontLab Pass | do-not-translate | ||
| FontLab Studio 5 | FontLab Studio 5 | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| fontlab.com | fontlab.com | do-not-translate | ||
| Fontographer | Fontographer | do-not-translate | ||
| Fontographer.net | Fontographer.net | do-not-translate | English term: draft. | |
| forum.fontlab.com | forum.fontlab.com | do-not-translate | ||
| GlyphRef | GlyphRef | do-not-translate | ||
| 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 | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| studio.fontlab.com | studio.fontlab.com | do-not-translate | English term: draft. | |
| TransType 5 | TransType 5 | do-not-translate | ||
| TypeTool | TypeTool | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy | Vexy | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy Lines | Vexy Lines | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy Linestra | Vexy Linestra | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy Playlines | Vexy Playlines | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy Vextra | Vexy Vextra | do-not-translate |
Type design¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Ukrainian | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ascender | upward extension | верхній виносний елемент | proposed | Ukrainian typography textbooks (KAI lecture on type anatomy: Верхній виносний елемент (Ascender)) and the corpus. |
| baseline | writing line | базова лінія | proposed | FontForge (uk), Inkscape (uk) and the KAI type-anatomy lecture (Базова лінія шрифту). Rejected: основна лінія, лінія шрифту. |
| bowl | round belly | овал | proposed | The KSADA textbook Шрифти і типографіка (2026) describes round letter parts as овали and напівовали; овал is the shorter and covers o as well as b, d, p. A reviewer may prefer напівовал for the bowl of b, d, p. Rejected: миска, чаша (literal). |
| cap height | capital-letter height | висота великих літер | proposed | KAI lecture: Висота великої літери (Cap height); FontForge (uk): висота великих літер. Rejected: висота прописних (Russianism). |
| character | символ | proposed | Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, FontForge (uk) use символ for an encoded character, which keeps it apart from гліф. Знак is left for marks and signs. | |
| contour | контур | proposed | FontForge (uk), Inkscape (uk) and the Projector Glyphs course. | |
| counter | enclosed white space | внутрішньолітерний просвіт | proposed | Ukrainian type-anatomy teaching (KSUE Елементи шрифту: внутрішньолітерний просвіт; KAI: внутрішньолітерний проміжок). FontForge (uk) says прогалина, usable as a short form in dense panels. Rejected: лічильник (office sense). |
| descender | downward extension | нижній виносний елемент | proposed | Ukrainian typography textbooks (KAI lecture: Нижній виносний елемент (Descender)) and the corpus. |
| diacritical mark | combining mark | діакритичний знак | proposed | Apple CoreText (uk) (Діакритичні знаки), the KAI lecture and the Projector Glyphs course. |
| em | type body | кегельний майданчик | proposed | Ukrainian type-anatomy teaching: KAI lecture Кегельний майданчик (Em-square), Creative Practice (cases.media) на кегельному майданчику. Rejected: кегельна площадка (Russianism, though the KSADA textbook has it), em (FontForge (uk)). |
| extremum | local extreme point | екстремум | proposed | FontForge (uk) (Додати екстремуми) and Inkscape (uk) (вузли у екстремумах). |
| glyph | гліф | proposed | FontForge (uk), Apple Font Book (uk), Inkscape (uk) and Ukrainian designers; the 2019 orthography writes г, not ґ. | |
| handle | вус | proposed | Inkscape (uk), the de facto standard, calls a Bézier handle вус, plural вуса. Rejected: керувальна точка (kept for control point), елемент керування (FontForge (uk), long), держак, важіль. | |
| ink trap | ink relief notch | чорнильна пастка | proposed | No attestation; fallback translated as a transparent image, like Polish pułapka. Compact form: пастка. |
| italic angle | slant angle | кут курсиву | proposed | FontForge (uk): Italic Angle = Кут курсиву. |
| lining figures | capital-height figures | маюскульні цифри | proposed | Apple CoreText (uk): Lining Figures = Маюскульні цифри. Rejected: вирівняні рисунки (FontForge (uk), a mistranslation of figures). |
| node | вузол | proposed | Inkscape (uk), Krita (uk) and the Projector Glyphs course. Rejected: точка (FontForge (uk)), too general. | |
| overshoot | optical surplus | звисання | proposed | The KSADA textbook Шрифти і типографіка writes верхнє звисання for round letters, with оптична компенсація as the explanation. Rejected: оптичний виступ (unattested). |
| proportional figures | natural-width figures | пропорційні цифри | proposed | Apple CoreText (uk): Proportional Numbers = Пропорційні цифри. Rejected: пропорційні зображення (FontForge (uk)), пропорціональні. |
| segment | сегмент | proposed | Inkscape (uk) and the corpus. | |
| serif | засічка | proposed | Standard Ukrainian term (textbooks, Inkscape (uk), Ukrainian Wikipedia). Rejected: зарубка (Apple), сериф. | |
| sharp | гострий | proposed | Inkscape (uk) for a node; the corpus has it. Rejected: різкий (image sharpening). | |
| sharp node | гострий вузол | proposed | Inkscape (uk) calls such a node гострий вузол. | |
| stem | main stroke | основний штрих | proposed | Ukrainian textbooks (KAI lecture: Основний штрих (Stem)) and FontForge (uk) (Основні штрихи). Rejected: стем (jargon), стійка, основа (Wikipedia machine translation). |
| swash | flourish | розчерк | proposed | Apple CoreText (uk) renders swash as розчерк. Rejected: широкий рукописний (FontForge (uk)), свош. |
| terminal | stroke ending | кінцевий елемент | proposed | KAI lecture: Кінцевий елемент (Terminal). Rejected: термінал (in software it is the console). |
| UPM | units per type body | UPM | proposed | Acronym kept, as FontForge (uk) keeps em. Expand in prose as одиниць на кегельний майданчик. Keep numeric controls compact: LSB/RSB (French AG/AD), UPM and PPM. Expanded terms belong in explanatory help; the full Family Dimensions Units Per eM label is an intentional exception. Team UI convention in Proteus 1751b28b0. |
| winding direction | drawing direction | напрямок контуру | proposed | FontForge (uk) (Виправити напрямок) and the Projector Glyphs course (напрям контуру). |
| x-height | small-letter height | висота малих літер | proposed | KAI lecture: Висота малої літери (x-height); FontForge (uk) says зріст малих літер. Rejected: висота рядкових (Russianism), х-висота. |
Font engineering¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Ukrainian | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| advance height | висота кроку | proposed | Vertical counterpart of ширина кроку (advance-width); no direct attestation. | |
| advance width | glyph box width | ширина кроку | proposed | FontForge (uk) writes ширина кроку for the advance width (it also has лінія ширини and додаткова ширина, so it is not consistent). Rejected: ширина гліфа (Inkscape), which reads as the outline width; ширина майданчика would be the derivation from кегельний майданчик and is unattested. |
| alignment zone | height band for snapping | зона вирівнювання | proposed | FontForge (uk): Alignment zone = зона вирівнювання; the Projector Glyphs course writes зони вирівнювання. |
| anchor | attachment point | якір | proposed | The plain word, attested for anchor in six general-software origins of the corpus; chosen because it stays apart from linking, snapping and attaching. Rejected: привʼязка (FontForge (uk) and Inkscape (uk)), which is generic and collides with links and attachment; a reviewer may still prefer it. |
| anti-aliasing | edge smoothing | згладжування | proposed | Corpus best pick: Apple, Microsoft, GIMP and KDE Ukrainian (згладжування шрифтів). |
| autohinting | automatic screen fitting | автогінтування | proposed | FontForge (uk): AutoHint = Автогінтування, also автоматичне гінтування. |
| axis | вісь | proposed | FontForge (uk): Axis = Вісь; plural осі. | |
| axis map | axis value mapping | мапа осі | proposed | No attestation; plain rendering like Polish mapa osi. Rejected: відображення осі, which also reads as display. |
| bottom sidebearing | нижній напівапрош | proposed | Derived from напівапрош; no attestation. | |
| component | компонент | proposed | FontForge (uk): Component = Компонент; the Projector Glyphs course writes робота з компонентами. Rejected: складник (general word, not used for this object). | |
| composite glyph | assembled glyph | складений гліф | proposed | No direct attestation; plain Ukrainian for a glyph put together from parts. Rejected: композитний гліф, складовий гліф. |
| conversion profile | export settings set | профіль конвертування | proposed | No attestation; fallback translated in plain words. |
| CVT table | таблиця CVT | proposed | FontForge (uk) pattern таблиця «cvt »; tag protected, noun translated. | |
| design space | variation range | простір дизайну | proposed | Ukrainian Wikipedia (Варіативний шрифт) and Aspose Ukrainian documentation write простір дизайну. Rejected: дизайн-простір, простір варіацій (unattested). |
| device correction | per-size pixel correction | поправка для розміру | proposed | No attestation; fallback translated. |
| dimensions | розміри | proposed | No direct attestation; plain word. Keep it apart from метрики (glyph spacing) and виміри (canvas measurements). | |
| element | елемент | proposed | FontLab’s own object; the cognate is the only candidate. Keep it distinct from компонент and посилання. | |
| element reference | shared drawing link | посилання на елемент | proposed | Derived from посилання and елемент; write посилання where the English says only references. |
| family dimensions | розміри родини | proposed | Derived from розміри; родина is the Apple Font Book word for a font family. Гарнітура stays the word for typeface in prose. | |
| Flex | флекс | proposed | FontForge (uk): Flex Hints = Флекс-гінти; fixed name of the Type 1 hint, written флекс-гінт when the noun is needed. German and Polish keep Flex. | |
| font dimensions | розміри шрифту | proposed | Derived from розміри; no attestation. | |
| font target | export target | цільовий шрифт | proposed | No attestation; fallback translated. Where the English says only target, write ціль. |
| font unit | одиниця шрифту | proposed | Compositional; FontForge (uk) says одиниці em. | |
| fractional coordinates | non-integer coordinates | дробові координати | proposed | No attestation; plain mathematical Ukrainian. |
| friendly glyph name | readable glyph name | зрозуміла назва гліфа | proposed | No attestation; fallback readable glyph name translated. Rejected: дружня назва (calque). |
| ghost hint | edge-only fitting instruction | однобічний гінт | proposed | No attestation; translates the alias one sided hint, which says what the hint does. Rejected: гінт-привид (unattested calque). |
| hint | screen fitting instruction | гінт | proposed | FontForge (uk): гінт, in line with the 2019 orthography (English h gives г). Rejected: хінт (colloquial, Russian-influenced), підказка (the tooltip sense). |
| hint zone | hinting height band | зона гінтування | proposed | Derived from гінтування and зона; no attestation of the compound. |
| hinting | screen fitting | гінтування | proposed | FontForge (uk) uses гінтування throughout, a regular Ukrainian verbal noun from гінтувати. Rejected: гінтинг (Ukrainian Wikipedia text; the loan form), хінтинг (Wikipedia article title), уточнення (GIMP). |
| instance | generated design | екземпляр | proposed | FontForge (uk) and Ukrainian Wikipedia (екземпляри дизайну). Rejected: примірник (InDesign; a copy of a book), зразок (a sample), інстанс (jargon). |
| interpolation | інтерполяція | proposed | FontForge (uk) and Ukrainian Wikipedia. | |
| kern exception | pair spacing exception | виняток кернінгу | proposed | Derived from кернінг; no attestation. |
| kerning | pair spacing correction | кернінг | proposed | Adobe, Microsoft, Ukrainian textbooks and designers; FontForge (uk) spells it кернінґ, but the 2019 orthography writes г in common nouns. Verb: кернити; adjective: кернінговий. Rejected: апрош (Inkscape (uk)). |
| kerning class | pair spacing group | клас кернінгу | proposed | FontForge (uk): клас кернінґу, respelled with г. The Projector Glyphs course says кернінгова група. |
| kerning pair | spacing-corrected pair | кернінгова пара | proposed | FontForge (uk): кернінґові пари; Ukrainian design writing: кернінгові пари. Write пара where the English says only pair. |
| left sidebearing | лівий напівапрош | proposed | Derived from напівапрош. Rejected: ліва опора (FontForge (uk)). Keep numeric controls compact: LSB/RSB (French AG/AD), UPM and PPM. Expanded terms belong in explanatory help; the full Family Dimensions Units Per eM label is an intentional exception. Team UI convention in Proteus 1751b28b0. | |
| Lib | Lib | proposed | Identifier of the UFO and VFJ data dictionary; kept as in German and Polish. | |
| line gap | міжрядковий проміжок | proposed | Inkscape (uk) uses міжрядковий проміжок for the space between lines; FontForge (uk) has проміжок лінії. Rejected: інтерліньяж, the whole baseline-to-baseline distance (used for line height). | |
| line height | інтерліньяж | proposed | Ukrainian textbooks: Інтерліньяж (Linespace), the distance between baselines, which is this definition. Rejected: висота рядка (CSS calque). | |
| link metrics | tie spacing to another glyph | повʼязати метрики | proposed | No attestation; plain verb for tying a value to its source. Rejected: звʼязати (to tie up). |
| linked metrics | повʼязані метрики | proposed | Derived from повʼязати метрики. | |
| mark attachment | combining mark positioning | розташування діакритиків | proposed | Apple CoreText (uk) writes варіанти розташування діакритиків; derived from діакритик. Rejected: долучення позначок (FontForge (uk)). |
| master | source design | майстер | proposed | No settled Ukrainian term: майстер is the Ukrainian form of the international word (майстер-клас, майстер-копія) and a Ukrainian paper on variable fonts writes майстерні варіанти. Rejected: мастер (reads as a Russianism), шаблон and зразок (corpus, the slide-template sense), головний шрифт (Ukrainian Wikipedia), основа (FontForge (uk)). |
| master compatibility | matching master structure | сумісність майстрів | proposed | Derived from майстер; no attestation. |
| metrics | метрики | proposed | FontForge (uk) (метрика) and the Projector Glyphs course (способи задавання метрик); plural as in English. | |
| metrics expression | вираз метрик | proposed | Derived from метрики; no attestation. | |
| metrics key | ключ метрик | proposed | Derived from метрики; no attestation. | |
| pin | шпилька | proposed | English term: draft. Issue 160 catalog family review: named point inside an element, distinct from a glyph-layer anchor. Proteus Resources/helptips.json def.anchorpin defines the behavior. Preserve this term across panel, tool, action and help labels; proposed terminology, not native-team approval. | |
| PPM | pixels per type body | PPM | proposed | Acronym kept as in hinting fields. Expand in prose as пікселів на кегельний майданчик. Keep numeric controls compact: LSB/RSB (French AG/AD), UPM and PPM. Expanded terms belong in explanatory help; the full Family Dimensions Units Per eM label is an intentional exception. Team UI convention in Proteus 1751b28b0. |
| production glyph name | shipping glyph name | технічна назва гліфа | proposed | No attestation; the name written into the exported font. Rejected: виробнича назва (calque). |
| rendering | drawing on screen | рендеринг | proposed | Common in Ukrainian writing on font rasterization; spelled with и after р by the orthography. Rejected: візуалізація (Adobe, GIMP), обробка (FontForge (uk)). |
| required glyphs | mandatory glyphs | обовʼязкові гліфи | proposed | No attestation; fallback translated. |
| right sidebearing | правий напівапрош | proposed | Derived from напівапрош. Rejected: права опора (FontForge (uk)). Keep numeric controls compact: LSB/RSB (French AG/AD), UPM and PPM. Expanded terms belong in explanatory help; the full Family Dimensions Units Per eM label is an intentional exception. Team UI convention in Proteus 1751b28b0. | |
| sidebearing | side space | напівапрош | proposed | Ukrainian textbooks: Напівапрош (Side bearing), half of the міжлітерний проміжок (KAI lecture, HNEU textbook). Rejected: опора (FontForge (uk)), півапрош. |
| size | розмір | proposed | Standard word; the type size itself is кегль. | |
| spacing | апроші | proposed | Ukrainian textbooks define апрош as the міжлітерний проміжок made of two напівапроші; the activity is розставляння апрошів. Rejected: спейсинг (Projector course, jargon), інтервали (Apple; any interval). | |
| standard stem | reference stem width | стандартна товщина штриха | proposed | No attestation; describes StdHW and StdVW, which are widths. |
| stem link | stem tie | звʼязок штриха | proposed | No attestation; fallback stem tie translated with штрих. |
| styling group name | назва стильової групи | proposed | No attestation; compositional. | |
| subsetting | cutting down a font | створення підмножини | proposed | FontForge (uk): Subsetting = створення підмножин. Rejected: підклас (Font Book). |
| top sidebearing | верхній напівапрош | proposed | Derived from напівапрош; no attestation. | |
| tracking | uniform letter spacing | трекінг | proposed | Ukrainian textbooks (KAI: кернінг, трекінг), Adobe and design writing. Rejected: відстеження, стеження (corpus pick, the surveillance sense). |
| TrueType instruction | pixel fitting instruction | інструкція TrueType | proposed | FontForge (uk) uses інструкції for TrueType instructions. |
| typographic family name | типографічна назва родини | proposed | No attestation; compositional, with родина as in Apple Font Book (Назва родини). | |
| update metrics | оновити метрики | proposed | Derived from метрики; standard verb. | |
| variable font | варіативний шрифт | proposed | Ukrainian Wikipedia, the KSADA textbook (2026), a KAI paper on variable fonts (2025) and Ukrainian design writing. Rejected: змінний шрифт (InDesign), which a reviewer may prefer as the native word. | |
| variation location | position in the variation range | положення | proposed | No attestation; a point in the простір дизайну, as German Position and Polish położenie. |
| vertical advance | glyph box height | висота кроку | proposed | Vertical counterpart of ширина кроку; no direct attestation. |
| vertical metrics | вертикальні метрики | proposed | Derived from метрики; no attestation. | |
| visual kerning | shape-measured spacing correction | візуальний кернінг | proposed | Derived from кернінг; no attestation. |
| weight axis | thickness axis | вісь насиченості | proposed | Derived from насиченість and вісь; no attestation of the compound. Rejected: вісь ваги. |
| weight class | клас насиченості | proposed | FontForge (uk): Weight Class = Клас насиченості. | |
| width axis | narrow-to-wide axis | вісь ширини | proposed | Derived from ширина and вісь; no attestation of the compound. |
| width class | клас ширини | proposed | FontForge (uk): Width Class = Клас ширини. |
OpenType¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Ukrainian | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Glyph List | Adobe Glyph List | do-not-translate | ||
| alternate glyph | glyph variant | варіант гліфа | proposed | Derived from варіант (Apple CoreText uk: Варіант, Контекстні варіанти); the fallback glyph variant translated. Adobe Ukrainian help says альтернативні гліфи, the rejected alternative. |
| cmap | cmap | do-not-translate | ||
| code page | legacy character table | кодова сторінка | proposed | Microsoft Ukrainian glossary; standard computing term. |
| color font table | таблиця кольорового шрифту | proposed | No attestation; compositional, with таблиця for a font table as in FontForge (uk). | |
| contextual alternates | context-dependent variants | контекстні варіанти | proposed | Apple CoreText (uk), Adobe InDesign (uk) and Microsoft Word (uk) agree. Rejected: контекстні альтернативи. |
| cursive attachment | joined-script connection | курсивне зʼєднання | proposed | No settled term; fallback translated. Rejected: долучення курсиву (FontForge (uk)), which reads as adding an italic. |
| design languages | цільові мови | proposed | No attestation; follows the reviewed German Zielsprachen and Polish języki docelowe. | |
| encoding | кодування | proposed | FontForge (uk), Apple, Adobe and Microsoft. | |
| feature code | layout rule code | код функцій | proposed | Derived from функція; no attestation. The FEA abbreviation stays. |
| fractions | дроби | proposed | Corpus best pick; FontForge (uk) and Apple CoreText (uk). | |
| glyph index | glyph number | індекс гліфа | proposed | FontForge (uk): індекс гліфа; Apple Font Book (uk): індекс гліфу. |
| glyph name | назва гліфа | proposed | FontForge (uk): назва гліфа. Rejected: імʼя гліфа (Russian pattern; Ukrainian gives things a назва). | |
| GPOS | GPOS | do-not-translate | ||
| GSUB | GSUB | do-not-translate | ||
| ligature | joined letters | лігатура | proposed | FontForge (uk), Apple CoreText (uk), Adobe. |
| localized forms | language-specific variants | локалізовані форми | proposed | FontForge (uk), Adobe InDesign (uk) and Krita (uk). |
| lookup | procedure | процедура | approved | User/team procedure fallback. No sufficiently strong established OpenType-specific alternative verified in the reviewed primary sources. Keep the approved contextual Rules panel title. Preserve literal FEA lookup/lookupflag keywords, identifiers and OpenType structure names. Ordinary search senses are separate. |
| mark glyph | combining mark glyph | гліф діакритика | proposed | Derived from діакритик and гліф; no attestation. |
| nonspacing mark | zero-width combining mark | діакритик нульової ширини | proposed | No settled term; fallback translated. |
| oldstyle figures | lowercase-style figures | мінускульні цифри | proposed | Apple CoreText (uk): Oldstyle Figures = Мінускульні цифри, the pair of маюскульні. Rejected: давні форми написання, малюнки у старому стилі (FontForge (uk)). |
| OpenType class | layout glyph group | клас OpenType | proposed | Compositional; FontForge (uk) uses клас. |
| OpenType feature | layout feature | функція OpenType | proposed | Adobe Ukrainian help: функції OpenType. Rejected: можливість OpenType (InDesign), модифікація (FontForge (uk)). |
| OS/2 table | таблиця OS/2 | proposed | Tag protected, noun translated; FontForge (uk) pattern таблиця + tag. | |
| Private Use Area | Private Use Area | do-not-translate | ||
| single substitution | одинарна підстановка | proposed | FontForge (uk): Single Substitution = Одинарна підстановка. | |
| small caps | small capitals | капітель | proposed | Apple CoreText (uk), FontForge (uk), Scribus (uk) and Ukrainian textbooks. Rejected: малі прописні, зменшені великі літери. |
| stylistic set | стилістичний набір | proposed | Apple CoreText (uk) writes стилістичні набори (Альтернативні стилістичні набори). Rejected: набір стилів (Microsoft and one Apple string; reads as a set of styles). | |
| tabular figures | equal-width figures | табличні цифри | proposed | Apple CoreText (uk) writes табличні числа and таблична цифра; цифри as in маюскульні цифри. Rejected: табличні зображення (FontForge (uk)). |
| Unicode codepoint | character code | кодова позиція Unicode | proposed | FontForge (uk) writes позиція у Unicode, and Unicode stays in Latin as in Apple and FontForge. Compact form: код Unicode. Rejected: кодова точка (calque). |
| variation selector | variant picker character | селектор варіантів | proposed | No settled term; derived from варіант. FontForge (uk) says вибір варіанта. |
| writing system | система письма | proposed | Attested in the corpus; писемність is the word for a script. Rejected: вид писемності (Microsoft). |
File formats¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Ukrainian | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI file | AI file | do-not-translate | ||
| AIP | AIP | do-not-translate | ||
| FLREQ | FLREQ | do-not-translate | ||
| Fog.net | Fog.net | do-not-translate | ||
| Glyphs file | Glyphs file | do-not-translate | ||
| Lines file | Lines file | do-not-translate | ||
| OTF | OTF | do-not-translate | ||
| SVG | SVG | do-not-translate | ||
| TTC | TTC | do-not-translate | ||
| TTF | TTF | do-not-translate | ||
| Type 1 | Type 1 | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| UFO | UFO | do-not-translate | ||
| VFB | VFB | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| VFC | VFC | do-not-translate | ||
| VFJ | VFJ | do-not-translate | ||
| WOFF2 | WOFF2 | do-not-translate |
Interface¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Ukrainian | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| action | дія | proposed | Apple, Adobe and Microsoft Ukrainian all use дія. | |
| add | додати | proposed | FontForge (uk), Adobe, Apple and Microsoft; standard platform verb. | |
| alternate | варіант | proposed | Apple CoreText (uk) names alternates варіанти (Stylistic Alternates = Стилістичні варіанти); Adobe, Apple and Microsoft agree on контекстні варіанти. Rejected: альтернатива (FontForge (uk): стилістичні альтернативи), альтернативний (Microsoft, Krita). | |
| anchor cloud | attachment point cloud | хмара якорів | proposed | No attestation; compound derived from якір. Where the English says only cloud, write хмара. |
| auto layer | recipe-built layer | автошар | proposed | No attestation; closed compound derived from шар, like Polish autowarstwa. The 2019 orthography writes авто- together. |
| autohint | автогінтування | proposed | FontForge (uk): AutoHint = Автогінтування. Command label as a noun, the same word as the process; in a sentence write виконати автогінтування. | |
| Brush | Пензель | proposed | Inkscape (uk), Adobe, Krita and GIMP Ukrainian. Rejected: щітка. | |
| collapse | стягнути | proposed | The definition is to pull the selected nodes into one point, not to fold a panel; no attestation. Rejected: згорнути (corpus pick, folds interface elements). | |
| color flag | color mark | позначка | approved | User instruction 2026-10-04: use the compact flag sense in clear UI contexts; omit redundant color. In explanatory prose кольорова позначка remains valid. Bit flags and checkbox flags are separate senses. |
| corner angles | кути у вершинах | proposed | No attestation; describes the definition (angles at contour vertices). | |
| cousins | related glyphs alongside | рідня | proposed | House voice: a plain collective noun for kin, like Polish kuzynostwo. No attestation. Rejected: родина (it is the font family), кузени (bookish), родичі. |
| crop | обрізати | proposed | Inkscape (uk) (Обрізати зображення) and the corpus. Adobe and Apple use обтинання and кадрування, the photographic sense. | |
| cubic | кубічний | proposed | FontForge (uk); inflect for the noun. | |
| current | поточний | proposed | Standard in all Ukrainian software; inflect for the noun. | |
| cusp | злам | proposed | No editor attestation; злам is the plain word for an abrupt break in a line and keeps cusp apart from гострий (sharp). Inkscape (uk) calls a cusp node гострий вузол. | |
| decompose | break into contours | розкласти | proposed | No font-editor attestation: FontForge (uk) says відʼєднати for unlinking references. Розкласти (на контури) is plain Ukrainian. Rejected: розібрати, used here for expand. |
| default | типовий | proposed | FontForge (uk), Inkscape (uk), KDE and Apple (типово); inflect for the noun, adverb типово. Rejected: за замовчуванням, за промовчанням (Microsoft), a calque of the Russian phrase. | |
| demo mode | деморежим | proposed | Common Ukrainian software usage; the 2019 orthography writes демо- together. No font-specific attestation. | |
| dialog | діалогове вікно | proposed | Platform standard (Microsoft, Qt, Inkscape (uk)). Rejected: діалог (colloquial). | |
| Dream Up | generate shapes | Начаклувати | proposed | House voice, like Polish wyczaruj: conjure up. No attestation; Dream Up Font is Начаклувати шрифт. |
| echo text | repeated text | відлуння тексту | proposed | No attestation; keeps the echo image with the native word. Повтор тексту is the plain alternative. |
| Eraser | Гумка | proposed | Inkscape (uk): Інструмент «Гумка»; Adobe and Krita Ukrainian. Rejected: ластик (Russianism). | |
| expand filter | bake filter into contours | розібрати фільтр | proposed | No Ukrainian attestation for this sense of Expand; розібрати says the live object is taken apart into plain contours. Adobe Ukrainian wording could not be verified. |
| expand stroke | bake stroke into contours | розібрати обведення | proposed | Derived from розібрати and обведення. Rejected: розширити штрих (FontForge (uk)), which says the stroke gets wider; Inkscape (uk) says штрих у контур. |
| expand transformation | bake transformation into contours | застосувати трансформацію | proposed | Розібрати does not fit a transformation; застосувати is what Ukrainian graphics software says for baking a transform. No font-editor attestation. |
| feature | функція | proposed | Adobe Ukrainian help writes функції OpenType and Apple CoreText (uk) увімкнені функції. Rejected: модифікація (FontForge (uk)), можливість (InDesign), фіча (spoken jargon). | |
| Fills | Заливки | proposed | Adobe Ukrainian uses заливка for fill and Inkscape (uk) both заливка and заповнення. Rejected: заповнення, also any filling-in. | |
| FontAudit | ФонтАудит | approved | User requires phonetic transliteration, explicitly including Chinese. Russian and Ukrainian spellings were recovered from team QPH; other spellings are proposals. Retain the FontAudit identity; do not translate as a generic audit command. Preserve FontAudit in code and identifiers. | |
| FontLab account | обліковий запис FontLab | proposed | Translate the common noun account; preserve the FontLab brand. Contextual labels may omit the brand when already clear. | |
| Fusion | Welder | Зварник | proposed | User decision 2026-10-04: translate the fallback Welder, the named live boolean group filter. Polish Spawacz is explicit; other renderings are proposals. Preserve Fusion in code identifiers. |
| Genius node | self-balancing node | вузол-геній | proposed | House voice, concept named rather than kept English; no attestation. Compact label: Геній. |
| grid | сітка | proposed | Adobe, Apple, Microsoft and Inkscape (uk). Rejected: ґратка (FontForge (uk)). | |
| Groups | Групи | proposed | Corpus best pick; the Projector Glyphs course writes кернінгові групи. | |
| guide | напрямна | proposed | FontForge (uk), Inkscape (uk), Adobe InDesign (uk) and the Projector Glyphs course. Rejected: направляюча (Russianism). | |
| kerning mode | режим кернінгу | proposed | Derived from кернінг; no attestation. | |
| Knife | Ніж | proposed | Corpus best pick; Inkscape and Adobe Ukrainian. | |
| layer | шар | proposed | Universal in Ukrainian graphics software. Rejected: прошарок. | |
| Layers | Шари | proposed | Universal in Ukrainian graphics software. | |
| mark | діакритик | proposed | Apple CoreText (uk) uses діакритик as the countable noun (Варіант діакритика, Лігатури з діакритиками). Rejected: позначка (FontForge (uk)), kept here for a color flag. | |
| Masks | Маски | proposed | Corpus best pick; Adobe and the Projector Glyphs course use маска. | |
| match | узгодити | proposed | No fixed term; узгодити covers making properties or masters correspond. Rejected: відповідність, збіг (corpus, nouns for search matches). | |
| matching | відповідний | proposed | Plain adjective for things that correspond; inflect for the noun. Rejected: збігається (corpus pick, a filter phrase). | |
| Matchmaker | master matcher | Сват | proposed | House voice: the village matchmaker, like Polish Swatka. No attestation; сваха is the feminine alternative. |
| measurement line | лінія вимірювання | proposed | Derived from вимірювання; no attestation. | |
| measurements | виміри | proposed | No attestation; the short plain word for measured values, apart from розміри (dimensions) and метрики. | |
| Measurements panel | панель «Виміри» | proposed | Derived from виміри; kept short because the panel labels are dense. | |
| merge | обʼєднати | proposed | Adobe, Inkscape (uk) and the corpus. Rejected: злити, злиття. | |
| mesh | сіть | proposed | Сіть is attested three times in the corpus for a mesh and keeps it apart from сітка (grid), which Adobe and Inkscape (uk) use for both. | |
| metrics mode | режим метрик | proposed | Derived from метрики; no attestation. | |
| metrics table | таблиця метрик | proposed | Derived from метрики; no attestation. | |
| metrics tool | інструмент «Метрики» | proposed | Derived from метрики; Ukrainian names a tool in quotes after інструмент, as Inkscape (uk) does. | |
| monospaced | моноширинний | proposed | FontForge (uk) and Apple Font Book (uk). | |
| multi-line | багаторядковий | proposed | Standard Ukrainian software term; inflect for the noun. | |
| nonspacing | zero-width | поза метриками | proposed | No attestation; describes the FontLab meaning (ignored when the advance and sidebearings are computed). Rejected: нульової ширини (the element has a width). |
| Nudge | push move | Поштовх | proposed | Inkscape (uk) renders Nudge as поштовх, and it is the plain word for the fallback push move. Rejected: зсув (Microsoft; any offset). Штурхан would be the cheekier option, like Polish Szturch. |
| Oblique | Oblique | proposed | Fixed name of the FontLab action, kept as in German and Polish. The design itself is похиле накреслення and a plain slant is нахил. | |
| panel | панель | proposed | Platform standard; Adobe and Inkscape (uk). | |
| Pencil | Олівець | proposed | Inkscape (uk): Інструмент «Олівець»; Adobe. | |
| Power Brush | power calligraphic brush | Могутній пензель | proposed | House voice: могутній is the superhero-cartoon word (Power Rangers are Могутні рейнджери in Ukrainian) and avoids the industrial потужний. No attestation. Rejected: суперпензель (shorter, the fallback choice if space is tight), потужний пензель. |
| Power Guide | power guideline | Могутня напрямна | proposed | House voice, derived from напрямна with могутній; no attestation. |
| Power Nudge | power push move | Могутній поштовх | proposed | House voice, derived from Поштовх with могутній; no attestation. |
| Power Stroke | power stroke outline | Могутнє обведення | proposed | House voice, derived from обведення with могутній; no attestation. Rejected: потужний штрих (Inkscape path effect, industrial tone). |
| project | проєкт | approved | Team agreement recovered from Proteus QPH on 2026-10-04. Project names the editable document; do not replace it with package. | |
| property bar | панель властивостей | proposed | CorelDRAW-style wording, platform-neutral; no font-editor attestation. | |
| quick measurement | швидке вимірювання | proposed | Derived from виміри; no attestation. | |
| Rapid | Рапід | proposed | Issue 161 names the tool Rapid in Latin scripts and requires transliteration elsewhere. Canonical TS uses Рапід. Do not translate the tool name as fast or quick, and do not use Rapidograph. Contrast classifications use the ordinary speed adjective. | |
| redo | повернути | proposed | FontForge (uk) and Microsoft Office Ukrainian use Повернути, which leaves повторити for Repeat. Apple, Adobe and Inkscape say Повторити; follow the platform catalog where Qt supplies the command. | |
| reference | посилання | proposed | FontForge (uk): Reference = Посилання. Rejected: еталон, привʼязка. | |
| Remove Overlap | merge overlapping contours | вилучити перекриття | proposed | Apple CoreText (uk) uses перекриття for overlap; вилучити is the FontForge and KDE verb for Remove. Rejected: вилучити перетин (FontForge (uk)), since перетин is an intersection. |
| repeat | повторити | proposed | Standard verb; Redo is повернути so that the two stay distinct. | |
| reverse contour | flip drawing direction | розвернути контур | proposed | Inkscape (uk): Reverse path = Розвернути контур. Rejected: обернути (also means rotate), віддзеркалити (flip). |
| Scissors | Ножиці | proposed | Corpus best pick; Adobe. | |
| Servant node | Follower node | ведений вузол | proposed | Ведений is the Ukrainian technical word for the one that follows a leader, which is the Follower meaning. No attestation. Compact label: Ведений. |
| Sigma | Sigma | do-not-translate | ||
| Sketchboard | scratch canvas | Ескізник | proposed | House voice: an artist’s sketchbook, cognate with Polish szkicownik. No attestation. Rejected: скетчборд, шкіцівник (regional). |
| Skin | wrapping outline | Шкірка | proposed | House voice: the diminutive, as the peel of a fruit, like Polish skórka. No attestation. Rejected: шкіра (corpus pick, anatomy), оболонка (neutral option). |
| smart | clever | хитрий | proposed | House voice: the plain folk word for sly and clever, the one with peasant cunning in it, and short; inflect normally. Rejected: розумний (the smart-device and AI word), кмітливий (quick-witted, but without the cunning and longer), спритний (nimble rather than clever), смарт. Exception: Smart Filter uses розумний фільтр by the team decision in Proteus 445b877b3; retain the existing adjective for other Smart features. |
| Smart Corner | clever corner | хитрий кут | proposed | Derived from хитрий; no attestation. |
| Smart Filter | розумний фільтр | approved | Named glyph-selection filter; not a graphical live effect. Match this term in the Font window, Aidus settings, dialogs and help. Team decision in Proteus 445b877b3, 4 October 2026. This feature-specific exception does not rename other Smart features. | |
| spacing controls | side space handles | регулятори апрошів | proposed | No attestation; derived from апроші, like Polish regulatory świateł. |
| sticker | наліпка | proposed | Native word, attested in Photoshop Ukrainian. Rejected: стікер, наклейка (Russianism). | |
| tab | вкладка | proposed | Platform standard for an interface tab. The tab character is знак табуляції. | |
| text element | text block | текстовий елемент | proposed | Derived from елемент; the corpus has елемент тексту. |
| thickness | товщина | proposed | Corpus best pick; the geometric measure, apart from насиченість (weight). | |
| Transform | трансформувати | proposed | Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop Ukrainian: Трансформувати. Rejected: перетворити (kept for conversions). | |
| transformation | трансформація | proposed | Derived from трансформувати. Inkscape, GIMP and Krita say перетворення, which is kept for conversions. | |
| True Fill | final black rendering | У всій красі | proposed | House voice: the Ukrainian idiom for in full glory, like Polish Pełna krasa; the glyph as it will finally fill. No attestation. Rejected: справжня заливка (literal). |
| uncheck | зняти прапорець | proposed | Microsoft Ukrainian standard for clearing a check box, attested in the corpus. Rejected: зняти позначку (Apple), since позначка is kept for a flag. | |
| Vexy coins | Vexy coins | do-not-translate | ||
| waterfall | size ladder preview | каскад | proposed | Apple Font Book (uk) uses каскад for this very preview. Rejected: водоспад (literal). |
| weight | насиченість | proposed | FontForge (uk) and Ukrainian textbooks (насиченість шрифту). Rejected: вага (Apple, Wikipedia), жирність, товщина (kept for thickness). | |
| whitespace | пробільні символи | proposed | Standard Ukrainian computing term for spacing characters. Rejected: пробіл, which is one space. |
Vector drawing¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Ukrainian | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appearance panel | панель «Оформлення» | proposed | Illustrator and Photoshop Ukrainian call the Appearance panel панель оформлення; written as a named panel. | |
| autotrace | bitmap to outline conversion | автотрасування | proposed | FontForge (uk) and Inkscape (uk) use автотрасування and трасування. Векторизація is the plainer word Inkscape uses in prose. |
| centerline | осьова лінія | proposed | Attested in the corpus and standard in Ukrainian drafting. Rejected: баланс (Microsoft Publisher, another sense). | |
| clipping mask | відсічна маска | proposed | Adobe Illustrator Ukrainian help: відсічна маска. Rejected: обтравочна маска (Russian calque), маска обрізання. | |
| control point | control handle point | керувальна точка | proposed | Corpus best pick (Blender uk), formed by current Ukrainian norm. Rejected: контрольна точка (FontForge (uk)), a calque that reads as checkpoint; керуюча точка (Russian pattern). |
| Fill Grid | grid of fill lines | Сітка заливок | proposed | No attestation; derived from заливка and сітка, capitalized as a named interface area. |
| fill mode | line fill style | режим заливки | proposed | Derived from заливка; the corpus has режим заповнення (Blender, Krita). |
| G2 continuity | неперервність G2 | proposed | Standard Ukrainian geometry term; identifier kept. | |
| Live Effect | editable effect | динамічний ефект | proposed | No verified UI term; fallback editable effect translated. Inkscape (uk) calls its live path effects інтерактивні ефекти контуру. |
| off-curve point | point off the curve | точка поза кривою | proposed | Counterpart of точка на кривій; no direct attestation. |
| on-curve point | point on the curve | точка на кривій | proposed | FontForge (uk) pattern (точка на кривій). |
| outline | обрис | proposed | Ukrainian can keep the distinction: Inkscape (uk) renders Outline as обрис and path as контур. Обрис is the whole drawing of a glyph, контур one closed path. Rejected: контур for both (FontForge (uk), Adobe). | |
| stroke | обведення | proposed | Adobe Ukrainian for the line drawn along a path, attested in five corpus origins. The stroke of a letter is штрих, which is why штрих (Inkscape, FontForge (uk)) is rejected here. | |
| stroke cap | stroke end cap | кінчик обведення | proposed | Inkscape (uk) calls stroke caps кінчик лінії; derived from обведення. Keep it apart from кінцевий елемент (terminal). |
| stroke join | stroke corner shape | зʼєднання обведення | proposed | Inkscape (uk): зʼєднання; derived from обведення. |
| tangent node | straight-to-curve node | дотичний вузол | proposed | Derived from вузол; FontForge (uk) says точка дотику. No exact attestation. |
| tonal map | darkness map | тональна мапа | proposed | No attestation; fallback translated, with мапа as in мапа осі. |
| Tunni line | лінія Тунні | proposed | Eponym after Eduardo Tunni; the surname does not decline in Ukrainian. |