FontBase looks like a more popular feature-full option, and RightFont is more aimed at teams syncing font libraries. One newer option that at least looks like a good alternative for their simpler Fonts app is the Typeface app, as a minimal way to organize fonts and look through what they offer. A nicer option that I've just recently downloaded is the Fontstand iOS app which both can manage and install your personal fonts and let you rent or buy fonts from their collection of foundries. On iOS, for years I've used the basic AnyFont app to install fonts, as there's no built-in way to directly install fonts. On Mac since then, I've just used Font Book to manage my limited personal font collection, with a backup folder of my purchased fonts in Dropbox, along with the Creative Cloud app to manage Adobe Fonts synced from my CC subscription. Had what felt like a new and fresh design for its time, even if its core features weren't much different from the built-in Font Book. And thank you for taking your time to suggest alternatives solutions. Price: €29.Ohh you reminded me I used to love their Fonts app, which I think was a simpler version of their full Fontcase. Ive been using Fontcase for font installation and all the fonts that I install. It’s not a complete replacement for Photoshop (one thing I miss is some kind of path tool), but it can do most things – and for the price (E29 from the app store – which includes a free upgrade when version 2.0 comes out) it’s just great! PSD format although some features like layer effects are not supported. All the familiar features are here, selection tools, gradients, brushes (it even supports Photoshop brushes). Pixelmator uses Apple’s in-built quartz filters for image effects, so if you have Apple’s Developer Tools installed and you know your way around Quartz Composer, you should be able to build your own. If you already know the name of the font youd like to use, but just cant afford to buy it, then Alternatype is the tool to use. Pixelmator can only handle RGB but as I’m using it for web graphics that’s just fine. That’s not to say that it is a direct copy and whilst not as poweful as PS, it has some features and functionalitiy that is in fact better. As well as all this Coda has a built-in GUI for coding CSS, a preview mode which allows you to browse the DOM, a built-in Terminal for when you need access to the command line and ‘books’ - a reference section giving you the complete run-down on HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP.Īnyone who is familiar with Photoshop will instantly have some idea of where Pixelmator is coming from. Coda has built-in FTP (it uses the same FTP engine as Panic’s top Transmit app). It supports Subversion for version control and it is extensible both with AppleScript and third-party plugins. It gives coding hints as you type (great if you can’t quite remember the syntax for that php function!). Whilst coding HTML it can validate on the fly. To begin with, it’s a text editor based on the popular SubEthaEdit text engine, it features syntax modes for ActionScript, ASP-HTML, CFML, CSS, ERB, HTML, Java, Javascript, JSP-HTML, LassoScript-HTML, Objective-J, Perl, PHP-HTML, Python, Ruby, Smarty, SQL & XML and additional syntax modes can be added. It’s not quite a full IDE, but it does a lot and makes what it does do very easy. Finally on to the coding! I’m currently using Coda from Panic.
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