Design, Color and Type Tools for OS X
... at last
This is a welcome set of utilities for all graphic design practitioners in the Mac world because OS X is a relatively new operating system on the Mac, and there simply aren't very many good low-cost packages available. Professionals who migrated to X have had to give up a number of good tools that were unique in the industry, serving well under OS 8 and 9.
Lake Group Software has launched "Veenix: Design & Type Tools", a new set of OS X native tools and utilities for graphic designers, web designers, illustrators, typesetters and other graphic professionals.
Essential Features
- a WYSIWYG Font List Window for quick and easy font/typeface viewing
- Character Set Charts
- Type Sampler Slide Show for easily sampling headlines in various typefaces
- access to Apple's Standard Font Panel
- Color Grabber Tool for sampling color values and finding the nearest web safe color
- Folding/Imposition Calculator
- Pre-Press Checklist
- full ASCII Chart, and a Decimal Equivalents Chart
Pre-OSX
With approximately 65% of the Mac design community still using pre-OS X systems, Lake Group offers a similar product: "Digital Design Buddy" -- featuring 15 tools/utilities for graphic design professionals, and "Font Sneak" -- collect-fonts-for-output software.
Veenix: Design & Type Tools
For more info, demos, and online purchasing, users should visit: www.lakegroupsoftware.com. The software retails for $24.95. An evaluation copy is also available.
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