![]() ![]() ![]() 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. This version’s support for macOS Sierra, plug-ins for the latest apps from Adobe and Quark, and detection of fonts in Microsoft Office documents make version 6 a worthwhile upgrade for most users, and a necessary one if you skipped version 5.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. While version 6 is a relatively minor upgrade, the features carried over from version 5 are tremendously powerful. (Windows users may use the current FontExplorer 3.5.1 to connect to FontExplorer X Server 3.) Bottom line The server administrator controls permissions for each client, including exporting server fonts, availability of online font stores and other client capabilities. When connected to the server, users can now enjoy new abilities including automatic and manual font classification, labels, ratings and comments. Server supportįontExplorer X Pro 6 can function as a client to the new FontExplorer X Server 3 (available as a separate product). The Info window lets you find, view and copy/paste any character in any font, and limit your view to specific categories. This is handy for finding and viewing the 19 symbols for the new 4K TV standard or the 72 new emoji characters, including new smilies and people, animals and nature, and food and drink. ![]() In addition to document types commonly used by graphics professionals (pdf, eps, svg, svgv, indd, idml, icml, icmt, ai, pages, key, rtf and rtfd), version 6 can now detect fonts in these additional 19 document types: ![]() You can then choose to activate or deactivate fonts used in that document, create a new Set from those fonts, or generate a report. The “Detect Fonts in Documents” feature scans a document without opening it, displaying a list of the fonts used in that document. In version 6, the Import preference lets you define whether or not a new Set is created when importing fonts. In previous versions, FontExplorer always created a new Set from fonts you import together. The enhanced Font Tile view with rounded corners, colored letters and colored backgrounds. You can now also view detailed font information when you mouse over each tile, add rounded corners to the tiles, change their foreground and background colors and even gradually change the background color from the first to the last tile. In version 6, the Enhanced Font Tile View lets you display the first two letters of the font name in each tile. The Font Tile View introduced in FontExplorer Pro 5 displays a word or two in each font, making it easy to find a font that has a specific flavor. You can also create and use your own custom categories. The new Classification window lets you choose from a wide variety of standard categories, or click the Auto Classify Fonts button to let FontExplorer classify them for you. ![]()
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