Back in the eighteenth century very beautiful and calligraphic handwriting was a must,e specially for young women coming from rich families who could afford having them taught at home. Or, as another conclusive example – remember that the first Bible copies were made by hand, including all the intricate models of the letters that started each page. Well, I guess nowadays we are happy if you can even remember how to write by hand because, with all the technology around use making everything for and instead of you, you end up doing nothing. SO you wake up one day and realize that you are sleeping with your head on the computer keyboard and when you want to write mum a note, you just can’t remember how to do it unless you are using a computer.
Well, there are some cases when you need a very beautiful handwriting or very beautiful fonts. For example professional photographers use special font types when they publish their work. Another case when you need special fonts is when you want to make your own wedding invitations yourself or, as a matter of fact, it applies to all kinds of invitations. We all have blogs now and in order to make them more attractive we can use specially designed fonts that are eye catchy and nice. In this case you will love to use DiskFonts 1.1, which a a fine software application designed for this purpose only.
This simple, but effective software was developed by Anastasyi Safari, some Colombian guy who is passionate of photography and art. DiskFonts 1.1 is a must for every graphic designer, but it is so easy to use, that beginners and amateurs will do a fine job using it, too.
What’s particular about this software application is the fact that you can view the different font models directly from your hard disk or from the USB memory stick , without having to install them on the computer. You can choose from the hundreds of font types with a simple mouse click. You can see the words you chose to type with a certain font be displayed in a certain color. It is compatible with all the most important software that is used for editing different web pages and also documents, like Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, InDesign CS5, Flash CS5, Fireworks CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, Premiere CS5 and also supports many font types. The only requirement from the system is to have Adobe Creative Suite CS5 installed.You can buy it here for $29 and use it whenever you have time or need to.
For the rest, take a deep breath before diving in the amazing collection of hundreds of fonts available and try to find the ones suited for your purpose at the moment.
I have to say, this is one of the most amazing and useful (which is more important) plugins for Creative Suite. Comparing uninstalled fonts in the simple way, right inside the Adobe design software – what a beautiful thing! I talked to author and he was very responsive with the support. A must for every graphics designer like me, having so many fonts on the disk. It makes my work so much fun!