What do you use to choose a font.
Gidgidonihah (20 pencils) | Thu, 2008-02-07 22:45I've tried out a few programs that handle all my fonts, but I've never really been a fan of a program. I just want something simple to compare the fonts I've got with the text I am using.
To fill in for this personal need, I was thinking this past week about creating an online tool for me that lists all my fonts (several thousand), creates images with the text I choose in each font and lets me compare however many I choose at a time.
That's the basic functionality, then I've thought up some other things that I wouldn't mind like grouping fonts into categories among other things.
I'd like it to be online, rather than creating or using a program so I can have it wherever I may be, or simply send a link to someone.
I've seen many font pickers online, but none with the functionality that I'm thinking of.
My question is, what do you all think? What do you use to look at your fonts and compare them? And of course, am I missing that site that's out there that already DOES everything I'm thinking of creating?
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I always choose a basic one such as Helvetica and then look at what feature font I need to set it off, I'll decide how I want it to look, sketch a few things out etc. and then I'll go on a hunt to find the perfect one.
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I don't have many of those fonts installed either. That's why I'm looking at making something that can show me what I have available and what I'm looking for.
I do mine old-skool. I have a 3-ring binder with a printout of all fonts on my system and I either flip through that... or worse... I select the text I'm wanting to change on my machine in the design program (like Photoshop or InDesign, etc.) and go to the font menu and just start hitting the up or down key to check out fonts that way. :b
There are probably MUCH faster ways to do this than my way, but it's what works for me.
Of course, I'm one of those terrible designers who rarely ever sketches thumbnails by hand, either. I'm just so much more comfortable with designing from scratch right on my machine, unless I hit a total wall, and then sometimes I revert back to what I'm "supposed" to be doing and make thumbnails.