Hello! I’m a happy user of Main Type, but recently I’ve been looking for the best way to compare two fonts or more through Main Type and I havent found something useful.
Imagine that I need to combine two or three fonts in a graphic project, like a book, normally I install some fonts that seems to be good to combine and then I prove them side-by-side in other software like Scribd.
The thing is that I would like to now whats the best way to compare side-by-side (or face-to-face) two or more fonts via Main Type.
Thanks for your support.
However, you can do it if you export your font catalogue to an HTML file. See this web page. which was created with MainType.
You can export selected fonts from the MainType Tools menu, Export Font Information, and then browse your font catalogue on your hard drive using your internet browser.
Ok then, thank you for the tip, Bhikkhu, I’ll try with the HTML font catalogue, but this will be a really good feature for typographers! Hope so that it could be added to MainType 3.0.
At present, the best way to compare fonts is using Font Creator.
Open two (or more) fonts and use Window to Tile Vertically.
FC-Compare.jpg
Something looks weird about these two.
Obviously these fonts were NOT made with Font Creator.