Why waste your life with computer games when you could be creating great fonts?

Pros: I was fortunate enough to find Font Creator Version 4 last year and have been amazed at it�s capabilities and facile learning curve. The steady string of great improvements (mostly fueled by new user input) has been even more amazing.

I have just begun with version 5 which will automatically fill in all those composit characters for you. This has become a great professional quality tool!

If you are tired of wasting your life playing computer games and would like to use your future computer time doing something creative and lasting and fun instead, I heartily recommend this program!

Cons: It is hard to leave alone. When I should be doing other things, I find myself creating and experimenting with new font ideas using this program.

Posted: 08-Feb-2005 08:55:46 AM

The best font manager I have found!

Pros: MainType was an eye-opener for me!

I had no idea so much information was packed inside each font that could be used for searches!

Columns allows a multitude of sorting options. Click a column head, and the whole display is sorted almost instantly by that information. Click it again, and the order is reversed.

Select View, Columns or just click the Columns button and easily reorder them as you wish.

I like Panose at the head of the Columns list because those fonts that have been “Panosed” give a quick selection of fonts to pick from to meet almost any specific need.

Groups has allowed me to move the Groups folder (Tools, Options, General, Folders) to my backup hard drive and fill it with sub folders and sub-sub folders to my heart’s content.

Between Browse and Groups I can rapidly switch back and forth between sections of my collections.

Malfunctioning collected fonts are immediately identified as I download them.

Layout panes can be organized ANY way you please! I like the Character Pane filling half the screen to closely examine Picture and Dingbat Fonts. Save your favorites as options to the provided 4 versions.

AND the mastermind is available to make good improvements if you can think of any!

Cons: It will not spin flax into gold.

Posted: 14-Dec-2005 08:07:07 AM