FontBook iPad app

FontBook, the world’s most comprehensive typographical reference guide, is now available on iPad. 

Browsing fonts is always a bit of a nightmare, do you browse by foundry, style, keyword…? When I’m searching for a font I normally end up with hundreds of tabs open and I start to loose track of why I’ve gone done certain paths. So I love the way you navigate through the different foundries and faces in this app. Zooming in and out from across different grids representing different levels of categorisation. It keeps everything linear but allows for tangental discovery. 

I also love the compare feature which lets you stack different fonts up against each other, customise the sample by changing copy and colour and then share it to your social networks to get your peers’ feedback.

I can see this being expanded with extra browsing methods like font family trees, timelines etc to make font discovery educational.

All in thumbs up and thanks for the find goes to nickmulley