![]() ![]() And for additional reading, see Khoi Vinh’s “One Book to Specify Them All”. $99 is an absolute bargain for this massive volume of canonical reference, and giver and receiver alike won’t be disappointed.īelow are a few photos of my personal copy ( Flickr set). Remarkably, next to nearly every typeface in the book is a list of similar typefaces, ala “If you like this, you might also like…”įor the typographer if your life, purchase a copy for him or her this Christmas. I cant install many fonts from my font book in my old iMac to the font book in. I side with John Boardley (I love Typography) in his review of FontBook: “There really should be no studio without this in its library.”įontBook is arranged in nine chapters: Sans, Serif, Slab, Script, Display, Blackletter, Pi & Symbols, Latin Plus, and Non-Latin. This can cause a problem if you create a keynote presentation or pages. ![]() It’s a means of discovering new and similar typefaces. With 1,760 pages, 32,000 type samples from 90 foundries, and edited by Mai-Linh Thi Truong, Jürgen Siebert, and Erik Spiekermann, to say FontBook is an impressive piece of work would be a terrible understatement. It’s even a juggernaut merely in weight - at nearly 3” thick, the thing weighs more than 6 pounds (3kg). The current installation package available for. Font Book - A modern designed lightweight font viewer Allows you to view the fonts on. Download FontBook 5.3.1 for Mac from our software library for free. Print entire folders with uninstalled fonts using mail merging capabilities. Assess the typeface, sizes, and impression by printing pages with chosen fonts. I don’t know of any other font or typeface reference as complete as this. Create sample pages for your fonts using dozens of layout templates. Some fonts will have the glyphs all the way at the bottom, while others will have it mixed in with the font. This will show you all the glyphs, or characters, included in the font. If you’re not already, make sure you click on the 4 squares symbol, which switches you to Repertoire mode. Created by FontShop International, it’s labeled as “the most complete digital type reference in the world.” Step 3 - Locate Your Glyphs in Font Book. I’ve had in my possession for some time now a copy of FontBook. ![]()
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