![]() His deep expertise is in creating beautiful, effective and unique brand identities that bring strategy to life and resonate with audiences. Derek has extensive experience developing consumer, business, community and government brands. I can’t believe this app has been around for a couple of years and everyone isn’t using it.ĭo yourself a favour, download it and give it a whirl.ĭerek is the Creative Partner at Truly Deeply, a brand agency with 25 years experience working with brands to position them for growth. It’s what some of the stock sites do with high-res comps, but with fonts. It’s a great business model for these foundries: easy access for designers who can sell the fonts to their clients. They’ll go into brand books, brand toolkits and brand guidelines and then clients will start using them too and wether renting or buying it works for Fontstand and the foundries. We’ll start using these fonts for clients work, creating brand-marks, updating brand styles and visual language. I can get the whole family for twelve bucks. I liked it, rented it for a couple of dollars, now I have the font for a month. Within minutes of finding the site, I had a font (Graphik semibold), active on my system, in Illustrator in a design, FOR FREE. I’ve written before about how some sites are making interesting fonts more accessible, but this is a game-changer. A great collection of foundries and fonts that you can really try for free, rather then just preview in a browser. ![]() ![]() Let us know what you think.While doing another late night trawl through the different foundries and shops we all spend so much time in (us designers anyway) I came across Fontstand. We hope that you’ll find Fontstand useful. ![]() Of course the project would be useless without the contributions of more than 20 independent font foundries (representing more than 70 designers) whose typefaces are now available through this new platform. Ondrej Jób, another Typotheque designer, designed the app and its website. With Fontstand you can test fonts for one hour for free on your own computer with your own software, and rent them for 30 days for just 10% of their regular price.įontstand is a partnership between Typotheque and Andrej Krátky, designer of the Nara typeface. We also know the frustration of paying full price for a font that you need for one small project, not knowing if you will ever use it again. We have tried to provide multiple methods of testing our fonts that minimise piracy risks, but as designers ourselves, we know that they are not always satisfactory. Fontstand has created a Mac OS X app that allows users to test-drive thousands of fonts from 20 international type foundries and independent designers for an hour at no charge. The answer to the first question is much shorter: no. You can read more about the design process behind some of our fonts here. Here at Typotheque two of the most common questions we deal with are ‘Can you send me a test version of this font?’ and ‘Why are your fonts so expensive?’ To answer the second question first, designing digital typefaces, particularly typefaces that offer advanced typographic capabilities and extensive language support is an extremely time-consuming task requiring not only artistic skill, but also technical expertise, as well as painstaking attention to detail. Specify the Domain Address to be active for all your webfonts. We believe that it will give you unprecedented access to thousands of high-quality fonts, expanding your design toolbox and addressing perennial shortcomings of the standard font licensing model. After you start a rental (or a free trial) of a font with the Desktop & Web option, you can activate your webfonts in 4 simple steps: Go to the Webfonts section of the Fontstand app and using the drop-down menu Add Font (or multiple fonts) to the list of your webfonts. We are proud and excited to announce Fontstand, a new Mac OS X application that lets you test fonts for free and rent them for a fraction of their retail price.
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