Typography is the most essential element of any design and designers always trying to improve his typography skills as per trends. Photoshop tutorials are best sources for designers to learn and understand typography text effect in this modern era. In this showcase, you will find some fresh text effect tutorials.
The in-house graphic designer with a limited number of corporate fonts to use on a daily basis may need nothing more than Apple’s Font Book app (if even that) to manage a small font collection. But the freelance designer with dozens of clients, the ad agency production studio and the print shop with hundreds of clients must have robust font management or dealing with fonts can become a full-time job. For those users, Extensis offers Suitcase Fusion 3.
Building a reference book of font sample pages is not only a time-honored tradition, it’s a necessity for professional graphic design work. After all, who can remember the exact appearance of hundreds of fonts, let alone the thousands that designers commonly have at their fingertips?
Suitcase Fusion, a professional font-management utility designed for individual users, has seen a giant upgrade with the release of version 2. The program has been entirely rewritten using code borrowed from Extensis’ Universal Type Server product. The result is increased speed and responsiveness—especially for adding and auto-activating fonts—and several clever new features that encourage typographical experimentation.
Alsoft, Inc. was founded in 1984 by two former Apple employees to develop and market MacExpress®, the first programming framework for the Macintosh.
Alsoft is a leading developer of award-winning utility software that enhances the Mac OS. The company currently produces DiskWarrior, MasterJuggler, PlusOptimizer, DiskExpress Pro, PlusMaker, and PlusMaximizer.
Since the beginning, their line of award-winning utilities has been well known and respected throughout the Macintosh community. Many of their products were the first of their kind, and most have features that remain Alsoft exclusives to this day.
In my world of fixing Macintosh related software problems for the professional market, I can tell you without hesitation that Alsoft is a company that makes my life easier. DiskWarrior is something that I almost couldn’t do without.
Have a graphic, logo or other sample of a font but don’t know what it’s called? Check one of these sites to help. See also Software to Help Identify Fonts above.
Identifont
Identify a font by answering a series of questions; 2. find a typeface by its name and see a sample. Helpful tool!
Linotype Font Finder: Automatic Font Identifier
Identify a font by answering a series of questions about various letters. Quite a helpful tool to help you identify a font!
WhatTheFont
Upload a scanned image of a font at this site, and they’ll tell you the closest match. Fabulous tool at MyFonts.com.
With unique killer features like native TrueType support and single-window Multiple Master editing, FontLab’s Studio 5.0.2 is the most capable font-editing tool available today, easily outpacing both the current Fontographer (now Owned by FontLab) and the old FontStudio (formerly published by Letraset).
It has been, over time, a great favorite of font manufacturers, font designers, and graphic designers who need to customize fonts for clients—people who need more advanced features than Fontographer offers, such as OpenType format support.
New features for FontLab Studio 5 (called FontLab in previous releases), include new editing tools for metrics and kerning, in-context glyph design, improved Unicode and Multiple Master support, new printing/proofing features, and dozens of other interface enhancements and functionality refinements, including the ability to preserve your workspace settings across font editing sessions.
In the world of design one of your most important tools will always be your font management system. Without a reliable system in place your work will soon spin out of control with your projects looking non-uniform and resembling an alphabet soup. Well okay maybe not that bad but font management is actually quite important and not always entirely that straight forward.
Enter Linotype’s FontExplorer X a robust and stable program for managing all your fonts, both system and user added. If the fact that it has been developed by Linotype, the world’s leader in fonts, doesn’t excite you, let’s take a look at some of its enterprise level features.
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