See the Font Before You Buy It at Veer
Have you ever heard of Flont? If you’ve bought type from Veer you have. Most of the font companies these days have a nifty tool that allows you to see the type you want in the font they’re selling, but Flont from Veer takes it one step further.
In order to use the tool, you’ve got to have an account with them. (It’s free to sign up) Then visit their font section and type in the text you’d like to see, and select the font family and they’ll show you all of them in that type. For the example below, I used my brand name (Brad McCall, designer) and tried a few script fonts.
This is an exercise I always use to do with all my own fonts when choosing a font for a corporate ID. To see the letterforms and combine them with the actual font, helps me to determine if the font matches the personality of the company. Now I can do it with fonts before I own them and make presentations to the client to get their buy-off. Veer also gives you access to many of the large type libraries such as Adobe using this tool as well. Give it a try!