What is Specimen?
Specimen is a web-based application developed specifically for designers, developers, typographers, and font enthusiasts to create, customize and share professional digital typeface specimens. It provides an intuitive drag-and-drop interface to effortlessly build visual specimens that accurately showcase the details and aesthetics of any font or typeface.
Some key features of Specimen include:
- Upload your own font files or choose from hundreds of free quality fonts
- Multiple premade layouts and templates for specimens - details, headline, poster etc.
- Customizable options for layout, colors, content, dimensions
- Live previews on desktop, tablet and mobile displays
- Shareable links to let others view specimens online
- Download specimens as image files or PDFs
- Organize fonts and specimens in personal libraries
- Collaboration tools to allow teams to work together
Overall, Specimen aims to provide an easy way for typography professionals to visualize, experiment with and analyze typeface designs so they can better evaluate and communicate the attributes of different fonts for their design and development projects.
Reason, FL Studio, Auto-Tune, Celemony Melodyne, MuLab, Hydrogen, Voloco, Synthfont, TalentedHack, Autotalent, LinuxSampler are some alternatives to Specimen.