Publisher Description
Typography Insight is a toolkit for learning & teaching typography, designed for those who love type. You can learn about historically important typefaces, observe and compare them.
● Fast Company - "It's more like an exquisite museum exhibit than a musty textbook." “Anyone who loves books, words, history, or fine art - even in the slightest bit - will find Typography Insight as intoxicating as Wikipedia and as fun as a video game.”
● The Atlantic - "Learning the subtleties of Helvetica and Garamond used to be a pain-but a sleek new app has made the process easier" "Typography Insight: iPad App Teaches Fonts Like Never Before"
● Gizmodo - "Typography Insight is sort of like an iPad typeface encyclopedia. Only encyclopedias are boring, and Typography Insight is beautiful and fun." "Typography Insight Makes Learning Fonts Gorgeous and Easy"
“Turned on by serifs and stems? Then you’ll love Typography Insight. Very slick, very informative.”
“This is like taking a beautiful coffee-table book and making it interactive.”
Features
● Juxtaposing Comparison: Understand the detail differences between the typefaces with side by side comparison
● Overlaying Comparison: Compare two typefaces by overlaying on top of each other
● Type inspector: Observe the detail shapes of typefaces such as serif, counter, and ear in very large scale, with pinch and pan gesture
● Basics: Learn about the basics of typography and simple tips for making a readable page
● Typeface Anatomy: Learn about the elements and terminologies of typefaces
● Historical typefaces: Understand different characteristics of historically important typefaces
● Custom Font Support: Access system and downloaded fonts using the native iOS System Font Picker.
● System font library support: Observe and compare all iOS system fonts
Version History • New System Font Picker: We have replaced the legacy Adobe Typekit integration with the native iOS System Font Picker. You can now access any font installed on your device—including fonts installed from Adobe Creative Cloud, Google Fonts, and local files.
• Spatial Ready: Typography Insight now runs beautifully on Apple Vision Pro. Experience type comparison in a completely new dimension with eye gaze and hand gestures. 6.0 12/01/2025 Bug fix and content improvements. 5.1.1 02/19/2023 Bug fixes and content improvements 5.1.0 02/19/2023 This update(4.1.6) Added color options to Juxtapositional Comparison
Recent updates(4.1.5)
- Dark Mode support added!
- Fixed crash issue on iOS 12 and 11
- Fixed text cropping issues on some font in Type Inspector
- Polished dark mode updates
- Fixed typo on basics contents 4.1.6 05/26/2020 - Dark Mode support added!
- Fixed crash issue on iOS 12 and 11
- Fixed text cropping issues on some font in Type Inspector
- Polished dark mode updates
- Fixed typo on basics contents 4.1.5 03/07/2020 - Dark Mode support added!
- Fixed crash issue on iOS 12 and 11
- Fixed text cropping issues on some font in Type Inspector
- Polished dark mode updates
- Fixed typo on basics contents 4.1.4 03/05/2020 - Dark Mode support added!
- Fixed text cropping issues
- Added slider for the type size in the Type Inspector 4.1.3 02/27/2020 - Dark mode support added!
- Fixed bug: Type name display in Juxtaposing Comparison 4.1.2 02/26/2020 - Dark mode support added!
- Fixed bug: font not updating in 'My Text' and 'Lorem' mode in Type Inspector. 4.1.1 02/25/2020 Dark Mode support added! 4.1.0 02/24/2020 4.0.12 - Bug fix for iOS 13.0: Screen rotation bug for 'Compare-Juxtapose' and 'Compare-Overlay'
- Completely updated and optimized for iPhone 11 and X series!
- Interact with beautiful typefaces on iPhone's large screen.
- Now you can observe and compare all system fonts.
- Color support for Type Inspector and Juxtaposed comparison
- Redesigned Type Anatomy section.
- Added support for color options in Type Inspector 4.0.12 10/26/2019 4.0.11 - Bug fix for deprecated API crash.
- Completely updated and optimized for iPhone 11 and X series!
- Interact with beautiful typefaces on iPhone's large screen.
- Now you can observe and compare all system fonts.
- Color support for Type Inspector and Juxtaposed comparison
- Redesigned Type Anatomy section.
- Added support for color options in Type Inspector. 4.0.11 10/07/2019 4.0.10 - Bug fix and improvements.
- Completely updated and optimized for iPhone 11 and X series!
- Interact with beautiful typefaces on iPhone's large screen.
- Now you can observe and compare all system fonts.
- Color support for Type Inspector and Juxtaposed comparison
- Redesigned Type Anatomy section.
- Added support for color options in Type Inspector. 4.0.10 10/06/2019 4.0.9 - Bug fix.
- Completely updated and optimized for iPad Pro series!
- Interact with beautiful typefaces on iPad Pro's large screen.
- Now you can observe and compare all system fonts.
- Color support for Type Inspector and Juxtaposed comparison
- Redesigned Type Anatomy section.
- Added support for color options in Type Inspector. 4.0.9 10/05/2019 4.0.8 - Bug fix and improvements
- Completely updated and optimized for iPad Pro series!
- Interact with beautiful typefaces on iPad Pro's large screen.
- Now you can observe and compare all system fonts.
- Color support for Type Inspector and Juxtaposed comparison
- Redesigned Type Anatomy section.
- Added support for color options in Type Inspector. 4.0.8 06/04/2019 - Completely updated and optimized for iPad Pro series!
- Interact with beautiful typefaces on iPad Pro's large screen.
- Now you can observe and compare all system fonts.
- Color support for Type Inspector and Juxtaposed comparison
- Redesigned Type Anatomy section.
- Added support for color options in Type Inspector. 4.0.7 05/27/2019 - Completely updated and optimized for iPad Pro series!
- Interact with beautiful typefaces on iPad Pro's large screen.
- Now you can observe and compare all system fonts.
- Color support for Type Inspector and Juxtaposed comparison
- Redesigned Type Anatomy section.
- Added support for color options in Type Inspector. 4.0.6 05/15/2019 - Completely updated and optimized for iPhone X/XS/XR series!
- Now you can observe and compare all system fonts.
- Redesigned Type Anatomy section.
- Added support for color options in Type Inspector. 4.0.5 04/05/2019 - Completely updated and optimized for iPhone X series!
- Now you can observe and compare all system fonts.
- Redesigned Type Anatomy section.
- Added support for color options in Type Inspector. 4.0.4 03/16/2019 - Completely updated and optimized for iPhone X series!
- Now you can observe and compare all system fonts.
- Redesigned Type Anatomy section.
- Added support for color options in Type Inspector. 4.0.2 02/17/2019 - Completely updated and optimized for iPhone X series!
- Now you can observe and compare all system fonts.
- Redesigned Type Anatomy section.
- Added support for color options in Type Inspector. 4.0.1 02/07/2019 - Completely updated and optimized for iPhone X series!
- Now you can observe and compare all system fonts.
- Redesigned Type Anatomy section.
- Added support for color options in Type Inspector. 4.0 02/06/2019 Bug fix and improvement in the message boxes. 3.9 04/11/2017 Bug fix on Type Inspector crash issue. 3.8 03/27/2017 Adobe Typekit font library is available in Typography Insight! Discover, observe and compare thousands of fonts by signing in with Adobe ID. 3.7 12/24/2016
About Typography Insight for iPhone
Typography Insight for iPhone is a paid app for iOS published in the Teaching & Training Tools list of apps, part of Education.
The company that develops Typography Insight for iPhone is BRDY Studios, LLC. The latest version released by its developer is 6.0.
To install Typography Insight for iPhone on your iOS device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2026-07-22 and was downloaded 18 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Typography Insight for iPhone as malware if the download link is broken.
How to install Typography Insight for iPhone on your iOS device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to the App Store.
- Once the Typography Insight for iPhone is shown in the iTunes listing of your iOS device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the GET button to the right of the app to start downloading it.
- If you are not logged-in the iOS appstore app, you'll be prompted for your your Apple ID and/or password.
- After Typography Insight for iPhone is downloaded, you'll see an INSTALL button to the right. Tap on it to start the actual installation of the iOS app.
- Once installation is finished you can tap on the OPEN button to start it. Its icon will also be added to your device home screen.
