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When choosing a style to use for a project, there is no replacement for a printed type specimen. Fonts just look different when you see them in print, compared to how they look on screen. So, when you need to choose fonts for a print project, it’s smart to have a type case book handy that shows exactly how all your fonts look on the page.

Smart developers have come up with several useful utilities for printing font specimen pages not only for active fonts, but also for folders full of fonts you haven’t yet installed. Some of these utilities are free, but the best ones will set you back a few bucks.

Let’s start with the Font Book utility that comes with Mac OS X. It can print useful type specimen pages in three different layouts, but only for the fonts the user installed via Font Book. If necessary, you can temporarily activate the fonts you need to print by choosing File> Add Fonts, then deactivate them after you’ve created your font specimen pages.