No thanks.
From what Ive seen so far this app is less than impressive. There is an absolute ton of content from what I can tell but its proving quite difficult to navigate. For an app that costs $5 the response time on scrolling and loading pages is annoyingly clunky and the user interface is just generally confusing to work with.
The visual layout while intriguing to look at seems to ignore usability. When you start to browse through the fonts, everything is laid out in a tile pattern with what I would guess to be around 75 fonts crammed on the screen at any given time. Some tiles are larger than others for reasons I cant imagine at the moment which only further complicates the chaos of fonts being displayed. Font samples are so tiny that you can hardly even tell what the fonts look like unless you take a chance and click in to one, being forced to endure the silly zoom animation and chunky load of the slide. At first glance things look really stylish and cool but I just dont get why they have so many different boxes of info everywhere, a distractingly intense color scheme, slider boxes that pull out overtop of the page...I remember hearing once that less is more.
Overall, things are just way more complicated than they ever need to be and the poor navigation design kills any sort of innovative edge over a typical website this app ought to provide. Coupled with the $5 price tag, that should be reason enough to ignore this app. Im hoping they put a lot of work into this and release an update because I feel pretty stupid paying for this.
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FontBook™ Typeface Compendium, v2.1