Fontplore – Interactive Font Search
What is Fontplore?
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!
Why do it on a table?
When a designer searches for a new typeface, he basically has two choices: Either to use a font catalogue and flip through the pages, or to search the internet and click through hundreds of font lists.
With the traditional printed catalogue, you are more or less limited to browsing through the pages. A search for fonts of a specific theme is not practicable and a preview of your content (i.e. the company name you’re doing a logo for) is not possible.
When using a web-based platform, you have all the preview and search options, but you usually lack the option to see the font printed on paper. More important, you’ll spend a lot of time clicking through pages and pages of font previews, where it’s hard to compare and easy to loose track of your search.
The Fontplore setup allows us to combine the advantages of both web and print based research and to bring a completely new feeling into the process.
What’s the use case?
As the development and distribution of interactive tables is still in its early days, we see the Fontplore Table as some kind of customer attraction for the bigger design agencies, where clients and designers get together and share the experience of selecting a suitable typeface for the project.
