Yes, you can use your tablet or phone for social media stuff and games, that’s what most people use it for. As design professionals, we should also be aware of all the awesome apps that can help you with our work or passion. Check out the apps before for anything related to typography.
1. Fontest
Want to know how your favorite fonts are rendered on Android? Then get familiar with Fontest. It’s a developer and typography tool with six high quality fonts for free.
2. FontBrowser
Use FontBrowser app for browsing Unicode fonts and keystrokes. It’s for free and you can search the symbols by type, saving precious minutes if you’re frantically looking for a particular arrow symbol.
3. Fontroid
Fontroid is a world’s first social font service that creates best handwriting font with people all over the world. Get it here.
4. PicLab
Make it easy to add typography to your photos with PicLab that offers lots of fonts and full control over size, positioning, opacity, rotation, and color.
5. Tiff
Compare the fonts with this visually contrast tiff app. This app will let you know how the letters look in different typefaces.
6. Paper by FiftyThree
With the slogan of “Ideas begin on paper”, this app offers a tactile experience via a bunch of bolt-on modules for sketching and coloring, which are useful for getting down font-design notes and ideas. Get this app here.
7. Quark DesignPad
Quark DesignPad app enables to rapidly wireframe grid-based designs. It’s a necessary tool for people who deal with typefaces and fonts on a daily basis. Get this app here.
8. WhatTheFont
If you are surfing the internet and found some amazing font on certain website, but do not know which font is it exactly then WhatTheFont is an app for you. You can simply take a picture, upload it and the app does the rest.
