FontPreview

Love this idea, but the app crashes immediately when trying to launch. Running macOS Monterey Version 12.0 Beta. Hope I get refunded.

GoneuphoricMon, Jul 12, 2021

United States

it does the job prevewing all fonts with customized text. some UI bugs could be fixed such as Starring doesn’t instantly appear/disappear until you move selection away. could allow more features such as tagging and grouping, etc. but for $0.99, this is totally worth the money

eggimageTue, Dec 13, 2016

United States

This program does what it's supposed to do: it shows me text in a *lot* of fonts (all, by default). You can enter you custom text (click on 'Text' at the top and type it in) and see it in all the fonts. The multi-columns are fine, once you realize how to use them. Let's say you have 4 columns showing. Scroll column 1 to have the first font you are thinking of using, then scroll column 2 to the second font, etc., letting you compare 4 fonts onscreen at the same time. But ... it's not obvious, and a heck of a lot more limiting than the more obvious/useful option that should probably be added: the ability to drag an example out of the "FontPreview" window and have it be a static window by itself. Then, the multi-column stuff could be ditched, and I could have an arbitrary number of potential font choices showing. One good aspect of the columns is that each column has it's own search/filter facility. The program needs much more powerful filtering capabilities... I want to say: [ ] Italic to include or exclude italics [ ] Bold and perhaps not as easy: [ ] only san serif [ ] only serif And: [ ] exclude fonts with missing characters And: Font source (choose one): Any / Apple fonts only / User installed fonts only I'd also prefer the ability to say something like "exclude more angular fonts" or "exclude more rounded fonts", which might require the program to analyze "a-z" to deduce the degree of angularity for each font :) Stan (40+ years of asking for enhancements) Sieler :)

sielerMon, Dec 5, 2016

United States

Great Value! Installed easy, works great, simple but does what it’s supposed to do. Nice that I can search by font name and save favorites. Good work y’all.

jasperHawk77Mon, Mar 7, 2016

United States

This app has become quite the timesaver for finding fonts and is very useful. I think a lot of the criticisms of it are actually some of it’s assets, and some feature requests would be more hassle than anything. This is strictly a convenient font-browser for searching and comparing, with customizable text and color. It does it very well. If you want to manipulate fonts any more than that, why would you do that in this app? My one wish is for it to update when I add a new font to FontBook. As it is, I have to close and reopen it which takes, like, 15 seconds. I can live with that. Addendum: Meh. The program seems to keep searching for fonts that I’ve either deactivated or removed completely, which takes up a lot of wasted space. It does this even after ‘Reloading’ fonts, which apparently does nothing at all.

Matt SahlgrenWed, Jun 3, 2015

United States

This is a simple, but useful little app, but all of the columns need to scroll as one, rather than them all scrolling seperately! I think that feature is there so that you can compare fonts, but it would be a lot easier and more useful if the multipe columns were there to just display all of your fonts in one list, so that you can look over a lot of fonts in a shart amount of time. Sort of like the Pinterest layout, I guess. Also, the icon is fairly ugly, which is just slughtly annoying to me as a designer. Fix those things, and this app will have 5 stars to me.

MaowaiFri, Jul 4, 2014

United States

I hoped this app's multiple columns would make it possible to search for fonts by the screenful, but it turns out each column is a separate autonamous list. If the developer added this ability, I would consider the app well worth the price. As it is, I don't. Also … it would be more useful if there were font metadata you could search on, not just the font names.

PaulMz22Thu, May 2, 2013

United States