Just before the new year, we hit you with FontBook 3.0, bringing the world of type to your pocket for just 99¢. You can now find an update to FontBook in the App Store which includes bug fixes and some additional features. FontBook 3.0.1 is free for current users. A full list of updates is below:
We hope you’ve had as much fun as we have playing with the new version of FontBook this week. Thanks for making it the #2 reference app in the App Store within 24 hours of release!
Welcome to new users of the app. If you’ve been loving FontBook for awhile, here’s a summary the goodies we added this go ’round:
FontBook is now universal and runs on iPad 2 (and later), iPad Mini, iPhone 4 (and later) and iPod touch (4th gen. and later)
Adapted user interface for iPhone
Favorites and preferences sync between devices via iCloud
Left: The FontBook App homepage offers the familiar access to the world of type: class, designer, year, foundry and usage. Right: Filters supply even more precise search results, for example “All geometric Sans typefaces from Font Bureau, please!”
Left: One of four type sample pages of a selected type family, in this case the sans serif Nobel. Right: All typefaces marked as favorites at a single glance, with editable sample text.
FontShop International announces the new version of the award-winning FontBook is available on the App Store today for just 99¢. Version 3.0 is compatible with all iOS devices, including iPhone. The universal update is free for those who already own the iPad version.
We’ll post more tomorrow, but tonight go forth and play! (If you have FAQs, find answers here).
On the eve of FontBook App for iPad’s first birthday, we can’t wrap up this week’s series without extending a big THANK YOU to the over 25,000 (that’s 50,000 font-ogling eyeballs) of you who have downloaded the app in the last year. Now close your eyes, make a wish, and tell us in the comments what you’d like to see in FontBook’s future!
Obviously Saturday’s birthday is a huge milestone for FontBook. But do you recall that the FontBook app grew up quite a bit in its first year?
Around five months, FontBook 2.0 emerged, adding 250 new families, a news stream, automatic updates, better bookmarking and more. In April, with the release of the Retina Display iPad, FontBook got a shiny new look. We’ve loved watching our baby change over the past 12 months. We hope you have too!
Coming up on its first birthday, we’re so proud that the FontBook app for iPad has made such a splash this year! A quick recap of the recognition this mobile typeface compendium has garnered since July 2011:
Believe it or not, the FontBook App for iPad is turning 1 this Saturday! Stay tuned to the blog this week as we look back at a terrific year (and maybe eat some cake).
Venus in transit yesterday must’ve made the internet fall in love all over again with FontBook app for iPad.
We were super excited to be named Smash App’s app of the day this morning, which definitely put a smile on our faces. Then this afternoon Wired lists FontBook as one of its 10 Essential Apps for Makers. That resulted in some joyous office clapping.
The app’s about to celebrate its first birthday, so we’re happy that it continues to be a useful and essential resource for the design community. We didn’t stop there and continue to innovate and create more tools to make your life easier. As we told you in today’s newsletter, we’re thrilled that our plugin now supports both Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Stay tuned to the blog tomorrow for a closer look.
Thanks for all those who’ve shared their experiences with us so far. We want to hear more. Have you used the plugin to help you select just the right font for a project? Did you discover a typeface you hadn’t even known existed? How has the tool made your design flow easier? Submit your story here by 11:59 PM (PDT) on Monday, April 30 and we’ll select our favorites to win a free download of the FontBook app for iPad.
The FontBook team has just given us word that FontBook 2.1 is up for sale in the App Store. FontBook 2.1 takes full advantage of the new iPad’s beautiful Retina display, with double the resolution and four times the pixel density of iPad 2. The new iPad’s brilliant, high-contrast display becomes a suitable substrate upon which FontBook’s specimens reveal the character of their faces. At its high resolution, even type samples set at text sizes approach the crispness of the printed page.
Find FontBook 2.1 for the new iPad at the App Store, or learn more about it at fontbook.com.
Planning on spending your post-holiday weekend curled up on the couch? Make sure you upgrade to FontBook for iPad 2.0 and we’ll make sure you’re entertained until Monday.
If you already have FontBook installed, just do an update from the App Store. Don’t have it? Now’s the time to check out this acclaimed app. Read all about its new features over at the FontFeed and watch the video below:
We may open our champagne before New Year’s in these parts. We were recently thrilled to learn that App Store just named FontBook for iPad the best of the iPad Reference category in App Store Rewind 2011 in the US. (Make sure to toggle to the iPad button).
We know you’re busy and the Internet is a crowded place, so we’ll try to give you a little reminder on Fridays of what’s going on out there. Below please find five recent FontShop-related threads that you may have missed.
The winter semester across Europe starts tomorrow and we wanted to remind students to review the ways to impress their typography teachers and make sure their iPads are pre-loaded with the FontBook app.
Additionally, students and non-students alike should stay tuned to this blog, as well as our Twitter and Facebook, throughout the next month for a little something we’re cooking up called Octmobilefest. Also, make sure you’re subscribed to next week’s newsletter for some exciting news from FontShop and FontFont!
