The world’s first standalone creative font plug-ins, developed specifically for Adobe's CS4 applications.

Who should use the plug-ins?
TypeDNA plug-ins are ideal for anyone who uses fonts within Adobe CS4, including Photoshop, InDesign or Illustrator.

Seamless Integration
TypeDNA’s Plugged-in® solution seamlessly integrates directly into Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, significantly enhancing font capabilities.

Complementing your design and Adobe’s applications
Like no other font tool, TypeDNA “Plugged-in” helps you find the font you want to use fast! Each plug-in includes tools that offer sophisticated character analysis. During installation each font is analyzed, characteristics are determined and from this data a unique font signature is generated. The easy to use interface provides several unique tools. Each tool can be used independently or combined for extremely powerful browsing and font selection, direct within your design applications!

"Similar Fonts™"streamlines your search! Just choose a reference font and click ‘Find Similar’. TypeDNA will analyze the characteristics of your fonts and list similar selections you could choose.

"Font Harmony™" easily combines fonts to create appealing visuals! Save hours of time and open a whole new world of visual opportunities.

Harmony Body Text - Select a headline font and let Harmony locate the most suitable body fonts.
Harmony Headline - Select a body font and let Harmony locate the most suitable headline fonts.
Harmony Contrast - Choose a font and let Harmony locate complementary fonts with contrasting styles.
Harmony Family - Combine fonts with other styles from the same family.

“Attribute Filters” provide intricate hands-on filtering by weight, width, optical size and italic angle.

“SmartChoice”, helps you find visual inspiration from your font collection even when faced with thousands of fonts. SmartChoice is available in three flavours (All, Headline, Body).

Other cool features
Search for fonts by name
Create and edit font layers
Shortlist suitable fonts for a project
Quickly view used fonts within a working document
Shop for fonts direct within the plug-ins (coming soon)
Browse fonts with history back and forward
Choose from two views, list view and card view

How to get a demo
1. Try the quick online demo : This demo uses the exact same interface and tools that we have used for the Adobe CS4 plug-ins (Photoshop, InDesign & Illustrator). You do however miss how the plug-in seamlessly integrates into the host application. To see this you will need to download the plug-in demo or watch this video.

2. Try for real with a Photoshop CS4 demo plug-in : Download a demo of the Adobe CS4 plug-in to try for yourself with your own fonts.

Which version of Adobe CS do I need?
Currently all plug-ins work in Adobe CS4 and CS5 (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)

When will the plug-ins be available?
Adobe CS4 plugins will be commercially available towards the end of March. TypeDNA Complete (CS5 plugins, and Font Manager) will launch with Adobe CS5.

Will the Plug-ins and the Font Manager work together?
Yes, we are extending much of the functionality from the Plug-ins into the Font Manager; this will ensure they work in unison.

Will the plug-ins be available for Adobe CS3?
CS3 is approaching 3 years old. Currently CS4+ is our main focus; however we are trying to create adapted versions that will at least work in Illustrator CS3 (PC) and InDesign CS3 (PC). Actual release will depend on the level of functionality we can achieve.

Will other software plug-ins made available?
Current development is focused around the Adobes CS and we will start development for Microsoft Office late in the year.