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Picking through fonts question/help


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Hello, I'm new to the boards and fairly new to Photoshop. I've been putting together an architectural portfolio and it has come time to develop the text. I'm looking to do expressive individual style fonts based on the project for the title of the pages, followed by a consistent text through the folio for the project descriptions.

The major problem I am having with this is trying to decide which fonts to use and having no knowledge of the names. Is there a quick view window in which I can see samples of each font as I click them, without having to continually scroll through the list, open>close>open>close etc? It's becoming quit tedious to view the text in this manor, not to mention remembering which ones I liked.

I'm using CS5, thanks for the help :)
 
The best solution for you is to purchase extensis suitcase fusion font manager or if you want a free 1 then Nexus font manager

Suitcase is an actual plugin for photoshop as well.

They let you load into it font libraries very usefull for when you have thousands. They let you type your text as a preview and even let you drag the preview on top of any photoshop document like a png to see it with the rest of the design.

The beauty of font managers are that you can install fonts pernamently or you can do tempory installs where they stay installed untilyou next log off your computer.

If I am working on a big project or have specific clients I just add all the fonts used to there own libary for easy access.
 
Would like to add, if anyone has particular fonts that they like feel free to share them! I've been looking around but there are so many fonts out there! So any favorites that are legible, creative ideas for styling these, or any ideas/tips about typography would be appreciated.

Also, any suggested fonts to be used as the body throughout the portfolio. I have a few in mind, but nothing set in stone. Considering the community of this site I think it would be safe to assume that there is a lot of talent and knowledge floating around here :)

Thanks for your time and suggestions.
 
Oh, if it changes anything I'm doing all the work in Photoshop CS5 and moving the files to Indesign to compose the actual Portfolio.
 
I couldn't agree more. I don't want fonts that are hard to read or an artistic creation either since the purpose of the portfolio is to display 'MY' work. An example of such is that for a museum I did I used the font MS PMincho, and I wish I could find the same font but with a bigger contrast between the think and thin lineage of the lettering. I actually believe this is a foreign font? lol

Mostly I've been changing lettering spacing, boldness, some motion blur, opacity. Basically just manipulating some very basic fonts that pose different styling.

Thanks for the link as well! I've viewed a few articles from the website, seems like a good place for this type of thing.
 
Do you have Illustrator experience I am often customising fonts in there if the natural state is not quite what I want. You can also do it in photoshop but illustrator is easier.
 
I do have illustrator, however I haven't had any amount of time to mess with it. I would love to get to learn the program it seems great for vector art and just digital drawing etc. However this portfolio has to be completed in a week to meet the deadline for grad school. So I'm really trying to limit the amount of extra work and stick to what I know.

I have seen a few tutorials in PS on creating text. I was thinking of doing some type of 'paint' text for the title of the pages containing my paintings. But that seems to be a little time consuming creating every letter, granted the title wouldn't be too long. I'd just rather finish ahead of schedule and not miss the deadline hehe.
 
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