Font tips: Printing type samples

#1 Macworld

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Posted 22 February 2010 - 05:30 AM

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#2 alansky

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Posted 22 February 2010 - 09:17 AM

The article's basic premise, that fonts look different on the screen than they do in print, is correct. But the suggestions that follow are unnecessarily confusing and complex. All anyone really has to do when choosing a font for a project is print out a sample page of the document itself. Since size and formatting also influence how a particular font looks in print, a sample page from the actual document is a much more reliable indicator than a generic "sample page".

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Posted 22 February 2010 - 01:46 PM

Back in the early days of Mac 0S‘s, there was a great font book program called “Font Gander.”
You could view fonts anywhere on any type of media, set font families in any style and easily print out different page formats.
Font Gander disappeared as new OS‘s came out.
Boy do i wish it would come back as it was sos easy to use.

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Posted 27 February 2010 - 10:52 PM

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Posted 01 March 2010 - 09:52 PM

One of the easiest to use is the free FontParade from brightpebbles.org. Saves ink, saves paper and gives the name of the font and a sample of what it looks like.
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#6 jaynelson

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Posted 14 April 2010 - 07:44 PM

alansky, on 22 February 2010 - 09:17 AM, said:

I agree, and disagree. Printing your document with the new font is the SECOND step in the process. First, you need to have some samples of all the potential winners to narrow down the few you'll spend the time to activate and apply to your document. At least, that's how I work... and that's why I recommend printing font specimen pages and collecting them into a book.

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Posted 13 March 2012 - 05:00 AM

I had to build a sample book of about 10000 fonts and I used FontDoc (http://www.integrity...dkaren/FontDoc/) which was the only tool that not crashed!

And damn, this tool is free!!!

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 07:52 AM

For anyone looking to print out symbol fonts with character mapping to keyboard typing, try the original FontBook. I was glad to see it still existed, since I could find no other app that would print a simple key reference layout!

http://www.lemkesoft...0/fontbook.html