Font ref. book
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- BigDee
Can anyone recomend a quality font reference book available in UK or online?
Also, does anyone know an easy way to catalogue and print all the fonts on a machine through suitcase etc without having to load them manually? I have so many that are just names to me at the moment.
cheers
- mozip780
The best font reference books tend to be quite old now, but I still use 'Precision Type Font Reference Guide'. You can pick up one from http://www.precisiontype.com if they have any left or look on amazon.com for some second hand copies (all US based). It's a big old catalogue with all the classics.
If you can get on somebody's Mac with OSX, the 'font book' on there is excellent. You can just scroll through all your fonts without having to double click on each one. Not sure about printing though, haven't tried that yet.
- Typographica0
Not to toot our own horn, but the best reference, by far, is the big yellow FontBook by FontShop.
http://www.fontshop.com/index.cf…Unfortunately the 2000 edition it sold out long ago. We are now feverishly updating it for 2005 and it should be published towards the end of the summer. Email to get on the waiting list.
In the meantime, I'd suggest gathering as many catalogs as you can. Veer has some nice type booklets and the FontFont catalogue and FontShop catalogs are pretty hefty.
http://catalog.fontshop.com/
http://www.fontshop.com/catalog/…