What is TypeDNA?

TypeDNA is a robust, standalone Font Manager and plug-in set that seamlessly integrates with all of the most common host applications including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Microsoft Office. Once integrated, TypeDNA significantly enhances your application's font capabilities. For example, anyone can integrate TypeDNA with Adobe Photoshop to access a unique algorithm set that analyzes, matches and mixes similar font features. Combined, these grant anyone the power to FIND / SORT / CHOOSE / COMBINE and MANAGE fonts quickly and easily without having to understand formal typography rules.
Powerful Font Manager + Unique Plugins = TypeDNA

Overview of Features

TypeDNA provides everything you’d expect to find in a commercial font manager plus so much more!
  • Finding and Browsing
  • - Search and filtering (group/set, font attribute, weight, style, classifications, serif/san serif without meta font data)
  • - Font attribute summary with printable report
  • - Pre- or user-generated sample text
  • - Font comparison using stacked previews
  • - User font ranking
  • - Searchable user-added font tags
  • - Font family sub-sorting
  • - Individual and Groups/Sets font activation
  • - Seamless integration of newly purchased fonts
  • Grouping and Management
  • - Automatic san/san-serif detection
  • - One-step font import
  • - Quick/Smart grouping based on font criteria
  • - Known system font, alphabetical, unclassified, last import and active/inactive pre-grouping
  • - Unlimited Groups/Sets
  • - Drag drop organization and font export
  • - Used font auto-activation
  • - Cross platform compatibility (PC, MAC and Group/Set data syncing)
  • - Font database back-up and archiving
  • - Duplicate fonts alerts
  • Font Manager Magic
  • - Similarity and Harmony sorting algorithm
  • - Missing character surrogate font suggestions, e.g. öäå
  • - Analysis of used fonts from text documents
  • - Rasterized graphic font Identification
  • - Rasterized font graphic mobile/camera detection
  • - Browse or buy fonts based on Harmony or Similarity algorithms
  • Statistics
  • - Local use statistics and tracking
  • - Group and Set usage statistics and tracking
  • - Community generated usage statistics