Fontplore

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Fontplore is an interactive application designed for searching and exploring font databases. Fontplore helps you to easily find the right typeface for your project in a collection of several thousands of fonts. It lets you browse, preview, compare and print the fonts you are interested in. And the clou is: It does all that on an interactive table, using tangible objects to navigate and control actions, so the workflow is easy to understand – easy to grasp!

Fontplore uses a tagging system to structure the fonts in its database. Every font is tagged with any number of tags and the tags themselves know their relatives. When you start a search, the first layer of tags is made up of the classical font categories and each category is associated with a characteristic typeface. By selecting a tag you get all the fonts linked to this tag, each of the fonts again representing a tag. Now you can choose between browsing through all the fonts or selecting another tag in order to narrow down your search.

Visit fontplore.org for more information.