FEBRUARY 2020 MACWORLD 25FINDING FONTS
Sometimes when choosing a
font for your project, you find a
font that’s almost what you’re
looking for, but not quite. The
new Similarity panel helpfully
shows you other fonts in your
collection that are similar to the
one you’ve selected. (Note: As
with the other new font
identification features, Similarity
only works with fonts in the
TrueType or OpenType formats.
PostScript fonts and web fonts
are not included.)
Once you’ve decided on a main font
for a project, it can take hours to find fonts
that pair well with it. You can shorten that
time dramatically by using the new Pairing
panel, which displays a list of your fonts
that work well with a selected font. In my
collection of thousands of fonts, it did a
reasonable job.
Font aficionados know to look for fonts
by style, such as Decorative, Script, or Old
Style Serif. But sometimes it’s more useful
to be able to choose by intended usage,
such as Book, Poster, or Screen; or by
theme, such as Birthday, Certificates, or
Halloween. FontExplorer X Pro 7 not only
automatically classifies your fonts by Style,
Usage and Theme, it adds them to Smart
Sets that are named with these
classifications. This makes it easy to flip
To see fonts in your collection that pair well
with a selected font, click the Pairing tab in the
preview window. Here, these sans-serif fonts
pair well with the dramatically-serifed Bernhard
Modern. Helpfully, you can choose from several
different one-line or multi-line type samples,
from alphabets to your own custom text.FontExplorer can show you other fonts in your collection
that appear similar to a selected font in your library. To see
the list, click the Similar tab in the preview window.