Bohemian Coding releases Fontcase 1.1: Elegant Font Manager for Mac OS X

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Bohemian Coding releases Fontcase 1.1: Elegant Font Manager for Mac OS X - Published on 03/27/09

 

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Bohemian Coding today releases Fontcase 1.1, a free update to the new font manager that will be like an iPhoto for your fonts. A few feature-highlights include versatile metadata support, the ability to share fonts on your local network and fantastic ways to preview all your fonts. New in version 1.1 is a versatile plug-in architecture, the ability to analyze what languages a font supports, and various interface enhancements.

 

Drachten, Netherlands - Bohemian Coding is proud to announce Fontcase 1.1, a free update to the new Font Manager with an intuitive and uncluttered interface. While it may look simplistic, there's is a lot features built in, and with Fontcase 1.1 you can even extend the application yourself with plug-ins if there are features you're missing.

 

Fontcase focusses on metadata, and for every font and weight, you can add a wide variety of metadata. You can set tags, genres, assign designers and foundries and much more. They are not just pieces of text, but actually show up in the source list and in Fontcase 1.1 supported languages will now also show up there just like your tags and genres and you can now create smart collections based on the number of activations and when you last activated a font.

 

Other new features include badges in the sidebar, an updated info pane and more speed. Also, Fontcase now accepts and activates a lot more fonts than before and we fixed several bugs in version 1.1.

 

New features include:

* A versatile plug-in architecture to extend Fontcase in numerous ways

* Fontcase now analyzes the languages a font supports

* More metadata for when a font was activated and the number of times it was activated

* Badges show the number of fonts in a collection

* Fontcase can now analyze and activate a lot more fonts now

* A redesigned info panel

* Several bugfixes

 

Minimum Requirements:

* Mac OS X Version 10.5 or higher

* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel

 

Language Support:

English

 

Pricing and Availability:

Fontcase 1.1 is available as a full-featured demo. A single user license is 42.00 Euros ($55.00 USD).

 

Bohemian Coding: http://www.bohemiancoding.com

Fontcase 1.1: http://www.bohemiancoding.com/fontcase

Download Fontcase: http://www.bohemiancoding.com/download/fontcase.zip

Purchase Fontcase: http://www.bohemiancoding.com/aboutus/store.html

Screenshot: http://bohemiancoding.com/aboutus/screenshots/ss5/ss.png

Screenshot/App Icon: http://bohemiancoding.com/aboutus/screenshots/ss4/ss.png

 

 

Bohemian Coding, based in the Netherlands, was officially founded on the 1st of January 2008 and currently has one other application called DrawIt. Laurent Baumann is a user-interface and icon designer specializing in the Mac OS X platform who had the original idea for the application. Copyright 2008 Bohemian Coding. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iTunes and iPhoto are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

 

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Pieter Omvlee

Founder

06 15561191

 

mail ( -at -) bohemiancoding.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

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