A full-screen font grid
Type the headline, the client's name, the campaign line — every font redraws instantly, from 32 up to 500 points. Search, filter by style, and hide every face that cannot display your characters.
FontAudition Desktop
Your words, in every font you own.
FontAudition Desktop fills your screen with your own text, rendered live in every font on your Mac — resize the grid from one to eight columns, filter to the faces that can display your characters, and drag the winner straight into the app you are designing in.
No Final Cut Pro required. This is the standalone app, for type decisions in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Figma, Pages, Keynote — anywhere on your Mac. Final Cut Pro editors who want the grid beside the timeline should see FontAudition WFE instead.
On the Mac App Store this one is listed simply as FontAudition. The Final Cut Pro version is a separate product, FontAudition WFE.
FontAudition Desktop
HEADLINE
Avenir Next
Bree Serif
Electrolize
Fascinate Inline
What it does
The comparison the font menu refuses to show you.
Fonts from everywhere
Connect folders, external drives, and font servers and browse them in place — nothing is copied until you say so. Preview and install complete Google Fonts families with the built-in browser.
Drag it where you work
A font sample drops as a ready-to-edit title in Final Cut Pro, vector artwork in Illustrator and InDesign, an image in Photoshop, styled HTML in Figma, and rich text in Pages and Word. Or export a collection as a paginated PDF font sheet a client can approve.
Who it's for
Anyone who chooses type on a Mac.
Designers, editors, writers, and anyone who has ever scrolled a font menu hoping to imagine their words in it. FontAudition Desktop descends from PanaFont, shipped in 2007 — the same grid, nineteen years on, and the sample text still defaults to AaBbCc. If your type decisions happen inside a Final Cut Pro project, FontAudition WFE puts the same grid beside your timeline.
See how FontAudition Desktop works