Font Book?
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- shitehawke0
Ok, the thing about font books is that they are usually just samples to test out the fonts. Or else they are massively expensive and may not have a huge amount of fonts that you would find useful for a big expense. Now Im not saying they would be crap fonts but at €2,000 - €6,000 for some of those font library cds you would be better served visiting a few foundry websites and being selective about your font choices.
if you propose new fonts to clients, try getting sample versions or pdfs or images are whatever to mock up identities to give a good view of how they would look finished then include the cost of the font in your overall design budget in the same way you would image procurement, an illustration, 3rd party costs, whatever.
Slowly build up your library of fonts, learn to work with the fonts you have and master them. You or I may not agree with the statement but Massimo Vignelli once stated that all the world needed were six timeless typefaces that could cater to every single communication problem: Helvetica, Times, Futura, New Century, Garamond and Bodoni.
Personally I don't very much care for Helvetica or Futura but Im just using it as an example.