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
- New font class “Non-Western”
- 150 new font families with more than 1800 fonts
- 16 new type foundries
- New app icon
- iPhone only: search filters (class, designer, year, foundry)
- iPhone only: customizable one-liner sample text
- iPhone only: result pages as list view
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.
