FontBook™ Typeface Compendium Reviews – Page 3
4/5 rating based on 51 reviews. Read all reviews for FontBook™ Typeface Compendium for iPhone.
FontBook™ Typeface Compendium is paid iOS app published by Monotype GmbH
Awesome.
Colin Mumbach
I try not to use the word "awesome" lightly, but it's definitely applicable to this app. I work in the creative/design industry and this has already become an indispensable tool for me. Easy to navigate, huge amount of typefaces, and it looks great.
Well worth the $
Violin_Player
This app is encyclopedic and beautifully designed. Thanks to the makers for selling this at $.99. Love the way it organizes the material. Wow.
Font Detection
saiyasoft
This app is pretty amazing and a clear, beautiful library of fonts. Only feature i would request is font detection via camera. This would be extremely handy for those random fonts we find in prints and dont know what they are off the top of our heads.
Pretty screenshots...
Raudesign
Well I spent 6 bucks for it when it first released--it's kind of clean and pretty, especially the screenshots on iTunes. I had some fun with it and was tempted to rate it 5 stars. But when I started to actually try to use it for work 8 months after my purchase, I find the app laggy on the 3rd-gen iPad, the samples way too small on the box view, and that it requires 5 to 6 taps to do almost any simple task. Worst of all, I spent half an hour trying to change the sample text from 'Rag' to something else just to find out later that it's not possible--so I was stuck with screens filled with 200 boxes saying 'Rag', as if they think I'm obsessed with Rag.
Completely Useless
Snack Daddy Kimon
This app is utterly useless because of its slow response time between clicks./swipes. You feel as if you have a 56K modem and attempting to download an encyclopedia's worth of information. You have to page through 6 pages to see each fonts information rendering it impossible to see many fonts within a reasonable period of time. After spending a couple of hours stumbling through its interface I found one sample font that summed up my experience; The Teebrush font displayed the word "Painful" and that's what it is when you use this app.
Bad interface
Davemakes
A good collection of fonts is buried within a clunky interface with poor performance. You are expected to wade through a wall of tiny previews of the word "Rag" and click through several times before you can actually see what the font looks like.
Sloooow
Liquidsmk
Still incredibly slow on 3rd gen iPad. For an app that pretty much only shows you fonts, this is ridiculous.
It IS a great app
jcarucci
As a designer, I find this to be an extremely useful app. I am on an ipad2, and it works great. It's fast enough, it's well-designed, it allows you to compare fonts with each other with your own text. You can search in all the ways designers search for fonts online. And it works offline, too. There is a learning curve, but if you tap around enough, you will figure it out. It's definitely worth the price.
I'm not sure.
Orgvol
What's the point of a font app if you can't see what the typeface looks like if you want specific letter forms. Don't buy