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Fontbase cant see old font types3/25/2023 ![]() ![]() that is NOT a minor expense (10% of my fortnightly income) for a tool that is only used sproadically. See my review page (in my Forum Signature) and my Amateur Videos to get an overview of the features. I have no experience of using cf FontBase, so I cannot compare them on feature set or ease of use. The only question you need to answer is “Does it save me enough time to justify the price.” There is no limit to how long you can use the registered version. $49 or even $79 is considerably less than $3 a month spread over three years. The Home Edition is unlikely to meet the needs of a DTP professional who uses MainType for their business. You can, I believe, evaluate the Trial version for 30-days with the full feature set of the Pro version. At that point I didn't bother setting custom DPI-scaling in the compatibility settings for it, especially after determining it was extremely lean on features (such as the tagging available in NexusFont, which was a must-have for me).ĭefinitely not the app for me, and my horde of fonts, but it may be enough for others' purposes.See the Comparison Chart to see if you need the Professional Edition or if the Standard Edition $49 is enough for your needs. To add insult to injury, there's so much empty real-estate in the UI that things started to make less sense. The minimum size coded into the app almost ended up filling my attached 1080 display set to 100% scaling.ĭPI scaling support amongst apps is already a can of worms, but it's typically with legacy WFP-based or or older apps, so I was surprised when this UWP app was designed so poorly. It is yet another app that someone seems to have only tested on a 4K 30" screen, as the window was too large to fit on my laptop's screen while set to either 125/150% scaling. I lasted about 20 minutes with FontBase before uninstalling it, with about 10 minutes of that time spent trying to find the window once open. NexusFont will just grind to a halt occasionally, even with the collection being organized into several top-level and even more sub-level folders. As easy as that!Īfter using NexusFont for a few years, I've had to start looking for alternatives that can handle my unhealthy, ever-growing TLC's 'hoarders'- worthy collection of fonts. Like Ctrl+F for search, or Enter for live text editing, or Ctrl+Scroll for changing font size. You can be sure, you'll always use the latest version of FontBase, because guess what? Automatic updates! No need to re-download. That includes ligatures, tabular figures, super and subscript, swashes, old style figures and some more! We support a broad number of OpenType features. Tired of scrolling up and down when you need to compare two fonts? In FontBase, you can simply pin a font to top and easily compare it to any other font in your collection. Start typing your search query, and you'll see the found fonts displaying in FontBase window immediately. ![]() You can also select a font and change the sample text individually, if you want to. You'll see the sample text changing live for all fonts. You can also create as many collections as you like by yourself. There is a number of predefined collections, such as recently added fonts (really useful), Typekit fonts and favorites. Apply styles to the whole collection or just to individually selected fonts. Simply change the color, background, font size, line height and align of your fonts. It also supports automatic updates and easy to remember keyboard shortcuts. With FontBase you can easily create and manage collections, change font styles, instantly apply font styles in Photoshop, compare fonts, use live search and live text preview.
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