Typography Insight

For those who love type

Published by: BRDY Studios
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Description

Typography Insight is a toolkit for learning & teaching typography, designed for those who love type. You can learn about historically important typefaces, observe and compare them. You can access system fonts and fonts from Adobe Typekit with Adobe ID.(optional)
You can run this app on a Mac with Apple silicon. Download from Mac App Store.
● Fast Company - "It's more like an exquisite museum exhibit than a musty textbook." “Anyone who loves books, words, history, or fine art — even in the slightest bit — will find Typography Insight as intoxicating as Wikipedia and as fun as a video game.”
● The Atlantic - "Learning the subtleties of Helvetica and Garamond used to be a pain—but a sleek new app has made the process easier" "Typography Insight: iPad App Teaches Fonts Like Never Before"
● Gizmodo - "Typography Insight is sort of like an iPad typeface encyclopedia. Only encyclopedias are boring, and Typography Insight is beautiful and fun." "Typography Insight Makes Learning Fonts Gorgeous and Easy"
“Turned on by serifs and stems? Then you’ll love Typography Insight. Very slick, very informative.”
“This is like taking a beautiful coffee-table book and making it interactive.”
“First reason I've wanted iPad. If you are a type nerd, this is yours”
Features
● Juxtaposing Comparison: Understand the detail differences between the typefaces with side by side comparison
● Overlaying Comparison: Compare two typefaces by overlaying on top of each other
● Type inspector: Observe the detail shapes of typefaces such as serif, counter, and ear in very large scale, with pinch and pan gesture
● Basics: Learn about the basics of typography and simple tips for making a readable page
● Typeface Anatomy: Learn about the elements and terminologies of typefaces
● Historical typefaces: Understand different characteristics of historically important typefaces
● Adobe Typekit font library support: Access thousands of fonts from Adobe Typekit by signing-in with Adobe ID
● System font library support: Observe and compare all iOS system fonts
● Kerning: Train your eyes for balanced letter space
● Measurement: Learn about type size measurement
● Type Setting: Learn about basic elements of typesetting
● Ascender/Descender Comparison: Compare ascender of descender area of typefaces
*Note - known issues in dark mode with Typekit menus
Due to discontinued support for Adobe Creative Cloud SDK, Typekit font menu does not properly support dark theme. Please use the light theme when using Typekit font menus.
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User Rating

4.5 out of 5

14 ratings in United Kingdom

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Typography Insight Reviews

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kendersrule on

United Kingdom

Lots of features will insta-crash, like “the basics”, not ideal, but the features I needed it for work right now, and are very good

Not worth £3

JkyCosten on

United Kingdom

Looks promising, and very nice, but crashes upon attempting to use all but “typeface anatomy tool”. Love to use it but can’t. Waste of money.

Brilliant Introduction to Typography

Davegemini on

United Kingdom

My father was an old-time Compositor who worked with wood-and-lead blocks. This App has helped me to understand his craft *and* explain my preference for particular forms of type... Oh yes; it also clearly explains the difference between 'font' and 'typeface'! Love it!

Fantastic!

Futurix on

United Kingdom

Can't praise this app highly enough! Very useful for remembering various font metrics and terminology.

Great for teaching

Geezering on

United Kingdom

I have had this app for a while now, and I always found it really useful aid for teaching. Typography and all the details and classification of type, can be a dry subject and a dry, empty ditch blocking the way to learning for many young people and students. This app, helps to bridge that gap by making the subject come alive. What I like best of all, is the way that it uses the qualities and capabilities of the device to bring the subject to life. Books look great, but often books on Typography get left on the shelves. With this app I can project to a room full of students and show them right in front of their eyes what's going on. Its live and its interactive and it's really useful. Great price too.

Intuitive app

Fred gauss on

United Kingdom

Really nice to touch type. Shame about the limited number of fonts available and explanations of the terminology. A quiz would be great as a learning tool.

Ok but not worth the money

___________nope on

United States

So I got this app cause I wanted to work on my kerning and leading. I thought this app was going to be really interactive and more of a game to help me learn but it is more informative and not very helpful. There is a kerning “game” but the app does not have any information on what to do with the app. Not worth the few bucks

Suggestion...

Davi600 on

United States

Pinch to zoom on the overlay comparison should allow for resizing only the left or right glyph (if gesture is conducted on the edge rather than center of the screen).

Very interesting app

Mr_Elmore on

United States

Just a neat series of little interactive displays that teach you all sorts of things you never knew about typography. A fun relaxing app with a clean, intuitive interface and a pleasant design. Makes you wish more apps would follow suit. Look forward to future updates.

Very cool

JazGalaxy on

United States

I would not say that this is an instructional app, but rather a “cliffs notes” accessory that is EXTREMELY handy to have on-hand at all times. Very well done and well designed. All killer, no filler.

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App Info

Category
Education
Publisher
BRDY Studios
Languages
English
Recent release
5.1.1 (1 year ago )
Released on
Jun 1, 2011 (13 years ago )
Last Updated
1 week ago