Font Examiner Finds Glyphs Across All Your Fonts
Artistic Techworks’ Font Examiner 3 does more than just let you see and print all the characters in a font — although it does that very well. My favorite features are:
- You can open and work with uninstalled fonts.
- You can view the outlines and anchor points of any glyph (character).
- You can copy and paste any glyph as a Bézier-based PDF into Illustrator, Photoshop, Preview, etc.
- You can browse and copy the HTML code for any glyph into an HTML editor.
But here’s my absolute favorite:
- Have you ever had a character in a font that you wish looked different? For example, a heart in Zapf Dingbats, but you wonder if there are any other hearts available in other fonts?
Or maybe you need a BIG question mark for a headline… Font Examiner takes you to the characters in other fonts that match your current character. Yeah baby, that’s a feature I can use!
Font Examiner 3 costs $20 and is only available for Mac OS X.
Jeff Gamet is a contributing editor for Design Tools Monthly, the executive summary of graphic design news. He is also the morning editor and reviews editor for The Mac Observer and iPodObserver.com, and contributing writer for Layers Magazine and Photoshop User. He writes the InBrief column for InDesign Magazine, and is the author of “The Designer’s Guide to Mac OS X,” from Peachpit Press
When Jeff isn’t writing about the graphic design world, he’s talking about it on the Design Tools Weekly podcast with co-host Jay Nelson. He also talks about Apple and the Mac world every week on The Mac Observer’s Apple Weekly Report.
Jeff studies, tests and reviews new software and technologies for the Macintosh community as well as the design and print industries. He is a former Pre-press specialist, and has nearly 25 years experience with computer technology. Jeff trains, lectures and consults on techniques for more efficiently using Mac OS X in creative environments throughout the country.
In the rare moments when he can get away from his MacBook Pro, Jeff spends his time climbing and biking in the Colorado mountains.