FontShop Review
For the past week I’ve featured a Font site every and today is the last one, my favorit FontShop.
Font Shop
“FontShop is the original independent font retailer. We’ve been around since the dawn of digital type. Whether you need the right font or need to create the right font from scratch, let our 16 years of experience work for you”
FontShop is probably my first choice for searching for type. They have an enormous catalog of type and make it easy to search, test and buy fonts. They also send out a well done email newsletter featuring a few hand-picked typefaces from their catalog.
When searching their catalog, you can choose from criteria such as category, foundry or designer. Once your results are up you can type in their Sample Text and view them in context, which is great when you are searching with a logo project in mind, or a short headline.
And if you click in to the next level of a particular typeface, you can view that font on it’s own.
Overall I would have to give FontShop the number one slot on my list for the best site to visit for font testing, purchasing and browsing. It makes font shopping a heck of a lot easier when the foundry has the designer in mind.
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