Fontplore, An Interactive Font Selection Display

If you love typography and fonts , then you are going to love this interactive font selection tool, Fontplore. It’s created by students and staff at FHP to be an installation at the mæve.

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.

I’m not crazy about the objects you have to use to interact with the user interface but that’s a minor dislike. The rest looks really promising. I’m looking forward to the future of displays and how we use them in the next 10 - 20 years. I know that one day my actual desk will be an interactive monitor. Can you imagine a 52” touchscreen display, like the iPhone, to use to design and create digital art? I can hardly wait.

My Favorite After Holiday Sales Event

It’s almost that time of year again and I’m not referring to Christmas. I’m referring to my favorite after-holiday sales event at Comicraft. That’s right, on beginning on Januray 1, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Comicraft is having their 9th Annual Never-to-be-repeated New Year’s Dale Sale.

All fonts will be on sale for whopping $20.09. Can you believe it. That’s an incredible deal for the best fonts money can buy. See you there.