Fontcase Brings Elegant Font Management To The Mac

FontcasebyBohemian Coding, is easily one of the best font managers for the Mac and with no doubts the most elegant and beautifully designed. The app has just got the most requested feature in its new version 1.5: auto-activation of fonts. Simply put, auto-activation allows you to install a small number of fonts on your system, the ones that you use the most; whenever a program needs a different font, the font manager automatically installs the font of the fly, and removes it when it is no longer needed....

2 min · 327 words · George Gordon

FontFont brings a new twist to teaser pages

Font storeFontFontis down over the weekend for a relaunch, and in the meantime they’re using a teaser page that designers should check out as inspiration for your own teaser pages. Instead of simply showing visitors a screenshot of the new design, a circular ‘window’ breaks through an overlay of solid yellow, which you can move around to check out the new site one small fragment at a time. The approach is similar to that of design sharing siteDribbble, where users post only a small section of a design so that others can focus on the work that has gone into the details, not the layout....

1 min · 207 words · Devin Hill

Fontself launches developer tools for HTML & Flash font embedding

Fontselfis a font-serving service that’s sort of like the consumer version ofTypekit. It lets users use custom fonts on sites likeFacebookandBlogger, mostly of the novelty kind — the sort of fonts that a Typekit-toting designer would shy away from, but the average net denizen loves. Aside from the handful of novelty fonts available in Fontself’s library, the main draw of the app is the ability to print out a template, fill it in with letters, scan it and upload it — creating a font out of your handwriting (or whatever you choose to fill the boxes with)....

2 min · 374 words · Michele Davis

Foodhost: The online marketplace for dinner parties

Come Dine With Mewas launched in the UK in 2005, and the popular Channel 4 TV show has spawned over twenty international versions, such asDinner Takes Allin the US. In a nutshell, the show brings together amateur chefs to compete against each other through hosting dinner parties, with the contestants voting on each other’s overall performance. It has proved immensely popular, with many people setting up their own ‘Come Dine With Me’ evenings with friends....

3 min · 559 words · Heidi Garcia

Foodily adds a comparative nutritional analysis for online recipes

For the love of food! Yesterday, we publishedan epic listof 12 seriously tasty apps for Foodies includingFoodspotting, Foodzy and Food Gawker. Today, another one of our favorite food web apps,Foodily, a “search engine for comparing recipes”, launched a “first-of-its-kind” online nutritional analysis feature. We first wroteabout Foodily in February, which presents recipes from around the web in a beautiful and clear way with a magazine-like experience when it launched a nifty Facebook integration to make creating and sharing food social....

2 min · 417 words · Aaron Jones
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