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If you want an easy way to look at your font library, Font Safari provides the most straightforward approach. A simple window with font styles on the left makes choosing the font for viewing a snap. In a larger preview window on the right, you can view selected fonts in a character maps view; get up close with characters using the telescope (or zoom) view; or you can view the entire alphabet, in both cases with numbers, using the snapshot view. We like the simple tabbed interface that makes viewing each type easy. You also can get keyboard shortcut information about all the characters of a specified font. Font hobbiests and design professionals will appreciate Font Safari's simple but effective interface and options.Publisher's Description
From Dreystone:
Let Font Safari be your guide as you navigate your system fonts. View your fonts in the character maps view, telescope view, and see the entire font family rendering a common or custom phrase. Includes support for multiple language keyboard shortcuts and string encodings.
What's new in this version: Updated to support newer Mac OS versions.
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"Would be excellent software if it could be installed"
Version: Font Safari 1.5.1
Pros
The old version was a most useful and well designed application.
Cons
I can't manage to install it, and the provider is unresponsive. see next comment.
Summary
I sent this on the feedback link today (6/30/11):
I had the old FontSafari and it was excellent. I used it constantly, since I work with a number of different language fonts. That version did not work with Snow leopard. So I was happy that a new version was coming out. I tried to download and install it, but I always got the mysterious message "An exception of IllegalCastException was not handled. The application must shut down. That was some time ago. I tried again today, same result. I had emailed Dreystone software on the first go around, and got a message asking what system I used. I answered, and that was the last of that. Too bad, since I was very happy with the earlier version.
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