Font Sample Sheets in Seconds
It's easy to create hardcopy and PDF font sample and specimen sheets in FontAgent so you can share your font selections with others, compare text in various fonts, and create catalogs of your font collection.More
Type, Fonts, Faces and Cases
Many digital typography terms of today — including type, typeface, font and uppercase — trace back to the creation of metal type in Europe five hundred years ago.More
The Benefits of OpenType
OpenType is a modern font-file format whose benefits include cross-platform support, simple file management, advanced typography, expanded glyph sets, and compatibility through open standards.More
Tile View Magic in FontAgent
The Tile View in the FontAgent font manager provides compact previews of a font family or project set, and syncs with FontAgent's Compare, Player and Glyphs Views.More
Organizing Your Fonts by Family
Organizing fonts into families is one of the many functions of a professional font manager. Learn how to use FontAgent to organize your font families the way you want.More
Dealing with Duplicate Fonts
There are many different ways that apparently similar fonts can differ from each other. It’s important to understand those differences so you can decide which fonts to use in your creative projects.More
Time is Running Out for Type 1 Fonts
The days of the venerated PostScript Type 1 font format are unfortunately drawing to a close. What can you do to update your Type 1 font collection so it works moving forward? FontAgent can help.More
Explore Your Fonts with FontAgent
FontAgent reveals a treasure trove of metadata, metrics and descriptive details about your fonts. And it makes all that data available for you to search, sort and explore as you select fonts and create criteria for Smart Sets — on both Mac and Windows platforms.More
What’s in a Font Name?
Font names can be cool, cute and even comical. But what does a font’s name actually say about it? In almost all cases, font names start with their family names and include style and metric terms to differentiate them from their siblings.More
Reality Check: Are Your Fonts Properly Licensed?
Font foundries are enforcing the terms of their licenses in court and the time is clearly over for having casual attitudes about font licensing. A self-audit is a good idea for users and organizations who have font collections with unknown license terms.More