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NEWS | February 2008 Veenix Donates Font Tools Basic to High-End Arts Training School Students of Frank Jonen's "Introduction to Typography" class at fxphp.com will receive a free copy of Veenix Font Tools Basic. fxphp.com provides high quality internet training targeting visual effects professionals. Frank Jonen stared his career in print and type design at Frankfurt's Gutenberg School of Arts, where he absorbed a lot of lead (not from China, good lead). T metal type, set by hand and drawing typefaces with pencil and inking pen. After working in music and musical promotion on projects like "Grease - the Musical", Mariah Carey's Germany tour and Puff Daddy's (now P. Diddy) tour artwork, Frank went on to torment pixels on the way out. Icon design, mostly for font houses lead to his collaboration with Hermann Zapf for Linotype to create the first commercial PhotoFont, Zapfino Ink which was based on Zapf's original drawings for Zapfino. Research led to the creation of LiveFonts which were a huge success... for Apple. This was followed by teaching assignments through type conferences at Vancouver's Emily Carr Institute and Parsons New School in New York City. NEWS | January 2008 Veenix Software Voted A Killer Startup at KillerStartups.com Following the December 2007 beta release of Veenix TuneExplorer, Veenix was voted a Killer Startup! TuneExplorer, with Veenix's SonicLogicEngine - a revolutionary new technology that quickly analyzes the sonic properties of music - offers users an advanced level of music organization, helps them find music they're in the mood to hear and provides easy to use tools to make sonically smart playlists. Look for more information about this exciting new technology in the 2nd quarter of 2008! REVIEW | September 2007 Veenix Font Tools Review: "Macworld UK" Magazine By Karl Hodge Star rating: 
Designers take fonts very seriously - and so they should. Picking the right face can make or break a layout or logo. That's why it's important for professionals and enthusiastic amateurs to keep a comprehensive catalogue of fonts to hand. The thing is, when you have a large font library it's difficult to keep track of it. That's where Font Tools 7 can help. Available in a budget 'basic' edition as well as the standard version, Font Tools is a suite of applications that will help you manage, organise, print and preview your fonts. It's been around for a while, offering these features to type-hungry designers on the Mac since 1998. Loyal users will enjoy features like a new preview pane, colour-coded layouts and automatic detection of image fonts. Font Tools creates a Visual Font Database of installed typefaces at start-up, displaying a window listing all the fonts on your system complete with a live preview. From there, you can go through the list sorting them into predefined categories either one by one or by searching for specific font families. These categorisation tools are only the tip of Font Tool's iceberg though, with a handy panel that lets you switch between other applications in the bundle. Font Samples gives you a full paragraph preview of any selected face, for example, while the Font Comparison pane enables you to compare text samples side by side. Buying Advice The full edition ships with Type Book Creator, a document creation tool that helps you make comprehensive sample sheets from your installed fonts. This is a particularly handy tool for designers working in print - as having a hard copy to hand can make all the difference when you're on a tight deadline and the look needs to be right. |
