Yes, that is a long list. FontCreator 9.1 is old now, it would be worth upgrading to version 13.0, so much has changed, though not a lot regarding shortcuts. Customising shortcuts has often been requested, but I think it is hard to do. There are not too many free shortcuts left to assign, and if users cannot change them, they probably cannot remember them either.
- It should be easy to add the shortcuts to the toolbar tooltips e.g. “Cut Contours (k)”. The selection tool is automatically selected by pressing escape when another tool is active. The align functions can be accessed entirely using the keyboard and access keys: Shift+F10 (or menu key), then “b”, followed by L,C,R (Left, Centre, Right) or T,M,B (Top, Middle, Bottom), or H,V (distribute Horizontally, Vertically).
- A dialog to select point options: size and colour, like guideline options would be helpful.
- Movement of selected points can be done with the move tab of the Transform toolbar. Keyboard shortcuts Up/Down/Left/Right with Ctrl or Shift can move by 1 or 100 font units instead of 10.
- Optimise can be applied multiple times. It can change the shape of contours, so it is wise to set the background image from the current glyph before using it.
- Transform of selected contours can be done by clicking a selected contour or selected group of contours again. This gives you skew and rotate handles on the selection.
- Math transformation is a bit over the top IMO.
- Batch import is available by drag and drop of multiple images from Windows Explorer. PDF or AI images import much faster as no tracing is needed.
- The Font Validation Wizard now creates a new category in the Overview side panel, so you can go through the glyphs with errors one by one. The Validation Toolbar (F7) lets you locate errors in a glyph by double-clicking on the error to centre its co-ordinates in the window. Zoom in further if it is hard to spot. Changing node colours might help, or reduce the shade of the contour fill to 5 or 10%.
- Invert selection will find all glyphs not tagged with a particular tag. Only one tag (or none) can be applied to any glyph. Find and list in search category works well, but it is temporary.
- A PANOSE Wizard has been requested before. I see a huge amount of work needed to implement this, but limited need for it. I just copy and paste a PANOSE number from a similar font that does include the information and leave it at that. Which programs make use of this data?