In the bottom preview panel, you can control how the previews are colored and tinted, whether the font’s built-in kerning values are used, and apply your own tracking values to bring the letters closer together or move them farther apart. A slider controls the size of font tiles, and when not viewing font tiles you can enable WYSIWYG display of font names, style linking and font family grouping. Checkboxes let you enable the visibility of various features, such as a font’s label, rating, activation state, and whether to show missing PostScript printer fonts and invisible fonts.
The most commonly used display settings are now available in an optional panel on the right side. While this image shows Font Tiles in the simplest interface arrangement, the Font Tile view is available in all view modes, including those that show additional font previews. The new Font Tile view helps you find the best fonts for a specific set of characters, such as Macworld. This new view displays a few characters in each font, making it easy to find a font that has a specific flavor or quickly scan for appropriate fonts for a specific typographic logo. In addition, users can now buy and install fonts directly from retailers such as FontShop,, Monotype, and others.įontExplorer Pro 5 has several new timesaving and fun-making enhancements, including a new Font Tile view. Unlike the old days, when “font management” meant activating and deactivating fonts and grouping them into sets, modern font managers also must deal with multiple desktop font formats, multiple web font formats, fonts that mysteriously arrive over the Internet but are invisible on the user’s machine (Adobe’s Typekit, for example), fonts being served from local font servers, and so on. This may seem like a trivial feature, but fonts have become extremely complex and FontExplorer Pro is an extremely robust program. The first new feature you encounter after upgrading is a Welcome Tour. Creative professionals must continually update their font management utility to keep up with new technologies and new versions of design apps-that’s just a fact of our creative life.įontExplorer X Pro 5 supports all the newest technologies and apps, and runs faster than before while providing smarter organization and new design features.
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