FontBook 3.0.5 for iPad and iPhone is now available in the App Store. The update is free for existing users.
Just before the new year, we hit you with FontBook 3.0, bringing the world of type to your pocket. You can now find an update to FontBook in the App Store which includes bug fixes and some additional features. FontBook 3.0.1 is free for current users. A full list of updates is below:
We hope you’ve had as much fun as we have playing with the new version of FontBook this week. Thanks for making it the #2 reference app in the App Store within 24 hours of release!
Welcome to new users of the app. If you’ve been loving FontBook for awhile, here’s a summary the goodies we added this go ’round:
Left: The FontBook App homepage offers the familiar access to the world of type: class, designer, year, foundry and usage. Right: Filters supply even more precise search results, for example “All geometric Sans typefaces from Font Bureau, please!”
Left: One of four type sample pages of a selected type family, in this case the sans serif Nobel. Right: All typefaces marked as favorites at a single glance, with editable sample text.
FontShop International announces the new version of the award-winning FontBook is available on the App Store today. Version 3.0 is compatible with all iOS devices, including iPhone. The universal update is free for those who already own the iPad version.
We’ll post more tomorrow, but tonight go forth and play! (If you have FAQs, find answers here).
On the eve of FontBook App for iPad’s first birthday, we can’t wrap up this week’s series without extending a big THANK YOU to the over 25,000 (that’s 50,000 font-ogling eyeballs) of you who have downloaded the app in the last year. Now close your eyes, make a wish, and tell us in the comments what you’d like to see in FontBook’s future!
Obviously Saturday’s birthday is a huge milestone for FontBook. But do you recall that the FontBook app grew up quite a bit in its first year?
Around five months, FontBook 2.0 emerged, adding 250 new families, a news stream, automatic updates, better bookmarking and more. In April, with the release of the Retina Display iPad, FontBook got a shiny new look. We’ve loved watching our baby change over the past 12 months. We hope you have too!
As we celebrate FontBook‘s birthday this week, we want to hear from you. Today’s question: what do you mostly use the FontBook app for iPad for?
Something else? Tell us in the comments.
Coming up on its first birthday, we’re so proud that the FontBook app for iPad has made such a splash this year! A quick recap of the recognition this mobile typeface compendium has garnered since July 2011:
We’re not resting on our laurels though, as FontBook enters toddlerhood, we’ll see what it can do!
Believe it or not, the FontBook App for iPad is turning 1 this Saturday! Stay tuned to the blog this week as we look back at a terrific year (and maybe eat some cake).
Venus in transit yesterday must’ve made the internet fall in love all over again with FontBook app for iPad.
We were super excited to be named Smash App’s app of the day this morning, which definitely put a smile on our faces. Then this afternoon Wired lists FontBook as one of its 10 Essential Apps for Makers. That resulted in some joyous office clapping.
The app’s about to celebrate its first birthday, so we’re happy that it continues to be a useful and essential resource for the design community. We didn’t stop there and continue to innovate and create more tools to make your life easier. As we told you in today’s newsletter, we’re thrilled that our plugin now supports both Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Stay tuned to the blog tomorrow for a closer look.
Recently we told you about our new FontShop Plugin for Adobe Photoshop CS5 and even gave you some great tips.
Thanks for all those who’ve shared their experiences with us so far. We want to hear more. Have you used the plugin to help you select just the right font for a project? Did you discover a typeface you hadn’t even known existed? How has the tool made your design flow easier? Submit your story here by 11:59 PM (PDT) on Monday, April 30 and we’ll select our favorites to win a free download of the FontBook app for iPad.
The FontBook team has just given us word that FontBook 2.1 is up for sale in the App Store. FontBook 2.1 takes full advantage of the new iPad’s beautiful Retina display, with double the resolution and four times the pixel density of iPad 2. The new iPad’s brilliant, high-contrast display becomes a suitable substrate upon which FontBook’s specimens reveal the character of their faces. At its high resolution, even type samples set at text sizes approach the crispness of the printed page.
Find FontBook 2.1 for the new iPad at the App Store, or learn more about it at fontbook.com.
Planning on spending your post-holiday weekend curled up on the couch? Make sure you upgrade to FontBook for iPad 2.0 and we’ll make sure you’re entertained until Monday.
If you already have FontBook installed, just do an update from the App Store. Don’t have it? Now’s the time to check out this acclaimed app. Read all about its new features over at the FontFeed and watch the video below:
We may open our champagne before New Year’s in these parts. We were recently thrilled to learn that App Store just named FontBook for iPad the best of the iPad Reference category in App Store Rewind 2011 in the US. (Make sure to toggle to the iPad button).
We look forward to sharing more FontBook news in 2012, but a huge congrats to the team who launched it into the world this past summer.
We know you’re busy and the Internet is a crowded place, so we’ll try to give you a little reminder on Fridays of what’s going on out there. Below please find five recent FontShop-related threads that you may have missed.
Check out what typefaces came to the ’Shop in October.
Big award news for FontFont in this week’s newsletter, as well as new fonts from Moretype and URW.
Use promo code Letter211 to save 10% off the Letter.2 winners on FontShop.com. Also, let us know your “Best of 2011” picks and be entered to win the FontBook app for iPad.
We’ve made some changes to make it easier for you to navigate the thousands of fonts on the site. Browse fonts by Category.
Theresa’s Tips reviews giving typeface licenses for the holidays.
Friday Five Fonts: FF Legato by FontFont and Justus by URW
FontShop Blog 