Font Viewer – myFontbook.com
Sometimes we all want to use a new font. Apple gives me a free Font Book app in OS X but it frustrates me because I can’t just flip through a book of type samples — it makes me click on each font name before I get to see a sample of type. Grrr.
myFontbook.com lets me flip through a library of fonts and see type samples just as I’d like to do in Font Book. It’s cool because it loads fast and looks just like an app running in OS X, not at all like like a browser-based app it is. And it’s slightly spooky because it’s not just displaying a generic library of fonts — it’s displaying the fonts I have installed on my Mac. Learning how it does that will probably make my simple brain hurt so let’s not go there; instead lets just wonder at the magic that allows it to happen.
It works with all modern browsers (that does not include you, IE6.x users) and only seems to have rendering problems with some condensed versions of some font families.
myFontbook.com is free and you don’t even need to register (though if you do it’ll remember your font library and the collections and tags you add to manage them.)
I particularly like that it will display a few columns of body type in 8, 10 and 12pt sizes. It’ll even print out a nicely-formatted proof sheet.
Once again, I am a font of all knowledge.
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