Choosing the right font sometimes is a core task and can make the difference, that’s why a specific application can help improving your workflow and organization.
OS X comes with FontBook application installed by default as font manager but as many of us already know, it is not exaclty a killer application being just simple and having only basic functionalities.
Pieter Omvlee the man behind Bohemian Coding just thought that the time was right to give Mac users, who need to go thought a couple of fonts and choose the one they need many times a day, the right application that could help in saving time and headaches.
Fontcase is a font management desk coded and designed to be the “Font iTunes”.
The main fonts functionalities are :
- Management
- Preview
- Share
- Print
- Examine
- Compare
Management
Fontcase comes with a powerful tagging system that will let you create a full catalogue of all your fonts entering all the extra informations that you may need in the future to retrieve the exact kidn of font you are looking for in a particular occasion.
Preview
Fontcase can preview every font being installed or not on your system so that you can evaluate fonts before even installing them.
You can also keep all fonts in Fontcase and activate them only when needed, every application will recognise a new font immediately without any need to restart.
Share
Easily sharing and accessing fonts through Bonjour is one of the best achievements of Fontcase since you can imagine the great help and workflow improvement such functionalities can bring into workplaces where design and typography are important like graphic and web design studios.
Fontcase allows you to print beautiful previews of fonts and you can arrange them in a font book together with all the related metadata, to use the prints as a visual reference during planning phase or to show a client how a font would look like.
Examine
A quite powerful glyph viewer is embedded into Fontcase, allowing the user to have a look at all unicode glyphs for every font being it installed or not. Informations like the ascender, capHeight, unicode code and html entity are shown making this simple utility helpful in many situations.
Compare
The compare functionality is a great way to have a look at how the same text would appear using different fonts for both headers and body text or even have a look at the glyphs tables of different fonts at the same time.
Another great function included into Fontcase is the possibility to develop own plugins or use the ones written by other people.
All we can say is that if you work everyday with fonts and typography you cannot miss this great tool that will improve your way of working for sure and speed up your design times.
GIVEAWAY
Bohemian Coding staff kindly offered 2 free licenses for this giveaway ending on the 3rd of July.
To win just you have simply to :
- twitter the following text (simply click to tweet) :
“TheLanceLife giveaway: Fontcase http://ow.ly/g5z0 @thelancelife @wpstudios RT pls”
AND
- comment here writing your twitter ID and explaining why you would like to win a license of Fontcase and how it would help your workflow.
AND
- subscribe to our RSS feed
The giveaway will end on Friday the 3rd of July 2009 and the winners will be chosen using a random number generator.
Good Luck !
NOTE : You can also enter our friend’s Fontcase giveaway at www.macstories.net
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June 29th, 2009 on 19:31
I have literally thousands of fonts. The tagging features of this program would be enormously beneficial in my finding the right font for my project needs. @bradpilcher
June 29th, 2009 on 19:50
Tweeted: http://twitter.com/macrystal/status/2390664658
It would be great to win this, I’ve read the review trialed the trial and am really enjoying it, the design is extremely stylish and sexy so it would be brilliant to get my hands on a license to this.
June 29th, 2009 on 20:44
http://twitter.com/vangenie/status/2391415778
I would love you for giving me a copy of fontcase, cause it’s the most beautiful font managment app available and as a student/wannabe designer your budget for buying apps in very small… so please macstories.net, give me a copy!
June 29th, 2009 on 21:16
Money + Font management are the bain of my life. Winning this would solve both. This is my TYPE of solution. Thanks.
June 29th, 2009 on 22:35
I’m still evaluating Fontcase and it seems that it perfectly fits me needs. I’ve lots of
fonts and it feels good to have all the expensive fonts stored in the vault of Fontcase. Also the coder gives good support even for non-customers.
http://twitter.com/Tekl/status/2392905765
June 30th, 2009 on 00:09
I posted the link on my twitter page: http://www.twitter.com/conorjames
I would love to win a copy of FontCase for a couple of reasons.
1. I was a beta tester of FontCase. I gave my feedback more than once. I don’t know if it was my original idea, but I thought of the way of grouping font families. Once 1.0 came out, I didn’t have enough money to buy it. I would love to be able to use this application that I so easily became accustomed to in my initial use.
2. I have recently become a typophile. I love downloading fonts and using them everywhere. To me, it is a beautiful art form in itself. I want to continue this passion and I fell that FontCase is the best way for me to do this. I can rate, organize and store fonts with it so that I am always using new ones. I want to keep my fonts organized and this is the best tool to do it.
*crossing fingers* Even if I don’t win, this is a great contest!
June 30th, 2009 on 04:40
Tweeted: http://twitter.com/cuby07/status/2397666183
I’d love to win Fontcase because I’ve always wanted a more feature rich font management application than Font Book. Fontcase also looks stunning, and being a student doing design this would be incredibly helpful for me, and would speed up the workflow of find just the right font!
Thanks!
June 30th, 2009 on 06:40
tweeted it: http://twitter.com/mynameisraj/status/2399118302
twitter id: mynameisraj
I would like to win a copy of FontCase because I am a typography freak and need a font book replacement. I don’t have the cash for FontCase right now so I’d really appreciate a free copy…
It would greatly help my workflow by allowing me to easier visualize my web creations as well as help me with graphic and print work typography selection. I could also feel better about having a large collection of fonts because I would know they are all organized.
Here’s to hoping I win!
June 30th, 2009 on 08:10
What´s there to say? everyone that have used it know why you would like or have to have it.. its as simple as that.
Thanks for making my Font life the easiest ever!
June 30th, 2009 on 12:11
I Love the look of Fontcase, and if it’s going to do what it says on the box – it’s bound to save me lots of time in choosing fonts during the design process. It looks like a cool app that will also make the playing with fonts experience more fun. VIVA font design, VIVA fontcase!
June 30th, 2009 on 19:07
Hiho.
I tweeted the message there: http://twitter.com/formlotse/status/2406313904
Being a freelance designer for some years now I have thousands of fonts which need to be organised. The free app solution I actually use for this task is not much more than okay but Fontcase seems to be a great app made to improve one’s workflow. The Print Preview and the Overview both look amazing.
Need it!
June 30th, 2009 on 19:54
Tweeted: http://twitter.com/CBishopDesigns/status/2406955288
I am working on establishing my freelance design business and with so many fonts in my collection and no truely good way to organize and manage them. This looks to be the perfect tool to do this.
June 30th, 2009 on 22:09
The software looks great, this is a cool giveaway. Thanks!
http://twitter.com/MadysonDesigns/status/2408865024
June 30th, 2009 on 22:15
Fontcase won an Apple Design Award so it must be a great piece of software!
http://twitter.com/compoundj/statuses/2408920504
June 30th, 2009 on 22:37
I love typography and all things in design. Starting as a freelance designer is not easy. Fontcase software would be a great times saving addition to my design arsenal!
June 30th, 2009 on 22:47
Design is a process. I have been known to labor for hours over selecting the right font for a project so I’m very excited about Fontcase”s preview and printing features. Since I work with fonts all the time, it would greatly improve my workflow and cut down on research time to have an all-in-one tool to manage, preview, share, and print.
I’m looking forward to trying it out & thanks for considering me for the giveaway!
http://www.twitter.com/Mrktgeek
Tweeted it!! & Subscribed.
Thanks
June 30th, 2009 on 22:51
Man I need this… my fonts are out of control!
July 1st, 2009 on 02:27
@TonyRetrobot
I would love, LOVE to win this great program. It is EXACTLY what I need. A while ago I went on a hunt looking for the possibility of a better font manager than Apple’s own Font Book and just when I thought there was nothing, I find Fontcase. It is everything I’ve been looking for in a font management application and it does everything with a sleek interface. I downloaded and ran the demo, and knew right away this would help solve all my problems when it came to finding the right font for a job. I really hope I win it. Thanks!
July 2nd, 2009 on 08:26
Hello, Hello…
I tweeted there: http://twitter.com/true_poet/status/2433375266
Fontcase is absolutely amazing. What more can one expect from a font management app?! The Overview looks so clean and organized and the Print Preview is exactly what I searched for. I really want Fontcase to be my new font organising “friend”. As a freelancer in graphikdesign I collected thousands of fonts which need to be organised.
July 2nd, 2009 on 10:27
http://twitter.com/rikyxxx/status/2434337996
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I’am designer and I’d like to win Fontcase becouse:
- it’s very well designed, not only aesthetically speaking (and mac apps should always be as good-looking and easy to use as Fontcase)
- I like supporting small software houses
- I’d like to drop Lynotipe Fontexplorer: its interface is raw, not very intuitive and furthermore the app is no more free (the only reason why I used to use it…)
Riccardo
July 2nd, 2009 on 20:42
Tweeted here: http://twitter.com/KentaClaus/status/2441103555
Fontcase is the best font management app.
Love Fontcase!
July 2nd, 2009 on 23:23
It is very useful have a helping hand in the writing part of the design of something.
Sorry, I forgot to say I am always forgetting things, like to say my twitter ID is @pablolarah
July 3rd, 2009 on 19:05
Giveaway is closed.
The winners are :
@mynameisraj
@KentaClaus
Congratulations !
January 27th, 2010 on 15:45
Link to tweet: http://twitter.com/NL72/status/8277804992
Fontcase rules!