![]() ![]() You can try our fonts at no cost, or rent them for 10 of their. Read the press release or find out more at . Fontstand: a Mac OSX and Windows app for testing and renting fonts on a monthly basis. I sincerely wish them well-they’ve shown that creating this kind of product is possible now they’ve got to show type designers around the world that it’s a viable business, too. We are proud and excited to announce Fontstand, a new Mac OS X application that lets you test fonts for free and rent them for a fraction of their retail price. It’s an innovation that has seemed inevitable from the moment that cloud-based delivery of design assets became viable, but it’s taken this scrappy company from The Netherlands-who claim that they are “strictly independent from any existing large corporate entity on the font market”-to bring it to life. That’s a small inconvenience to bear in exchange for a tremendous luxury that designers have wanted for years: the ability to give new fonts a spin quickly without making a purchase commitment. For example, I had loaded Commercial Type’s Caponi Slab and created a text block inside a Photoshop document when the hour was up I was still able to create new text blocks in new files within Photoshop, but not within other apps that hadn’t been using Caponi Slab during that time.Īlso, in trial mode the capital F character is replaced with a Fontstand icon, as shown below. In my preliminary testing, after the one-hour trial period ends the font is actually still available to running processes, but not to new ones. ![]() As soon as you access a font for trial it loads into your system and is available to any program, instantly and without hassle. Fontstand is an app for Mac OS X and Windows that allows you to try fonts for free or rent them by the month for. Install Fontstand’s Mac app and you have instant access to its full catalog it takes just a click of the mouse to try any font for free for an hour, rent it for a month at just 10% of its retail price, or rent-to-own it over the course of twelve months.Įverything works just as you’d expect-mostly. One-click font rentals for desktop and web. This new service allows, for the first time, on-the-fly trial and rental of quality fonts from foundries such as Commercial Type, Process Type Foundry, Type Together and a small but significant coterie of others. If Typekit dragged the type industry into the daylight of the modern Web, then the brand new Fontstand aims to finish the job of modernizing it. ![]()
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