Font Preview Software for Logotypes

April 19, 2007 11:24 AM

Mac/DesignFilter: I once heard of a Mac program that would allow you to preview different fonts using specific text, to help ease the design of a logotype. This isn't a font manager, but more of a design tool.

I want to be able to take a company name (e.g. "YourCompany") and have it typeset in 20 different fonts for me to look at and/or print out.

I know there are similar functions in Suitcase, but I want to be able to create a sheet with only "YourCompany" whereas Suitcase will print a whole type spec sheet.

posted by lunarboy to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

dafont.com is a pretty bitchin' site.
posted by phaedon at 11:35 AM on April 19, 2007

Suitcase Fusion does, in fact, allow this.
posted by miss tea at 12:48 PM on April 19, 2007

The free FontExplorerX does the preview part; not sure about exporting/printing a list of previews, though.
posted by Hankins at 1:29 PM on April 19, 2007

FontLister does this (you can edit the text) for Windows. I know you said Mac, but this is so ridiculously close that it might be useful.
posted by niles at 4:29 PM on April 19, 2007

myfonts.com does it too.
posted by nadise at 7:09 PM on April 19, 2007

If you're running Tiger, TypeCast is a handy widget for previewing fonts.
posted by al_fresco at 7:55 AM on April 20, 2007

Sorry, didn't read the [more inside].
posted by al_fresco at 7:56 AM on April 20, 2007