Why Not Jarte?

Why Not Jarte?
I recently decided to test Jarte for a test drive. Jarte is a light yet powerful word processor built on the stable Microsoft wordpad engine. It is designed to be as simple and straight forward as wordpad while simultaneously giving the user enhanced Word capabilities.

These include:

Tabbed document windows for easy access to your open documents
Larger buttons for the most commonly used functions
Instant dictionary and thesaurus word lookup (integrates with free WordWeb)
Spell check and text search tools that do not park themselves on top of the text you are trying to edit
Single click bookmarking that make bookmarks both useful and usable
Instant access to the documents and folders you designate as your favorites
Instant access to the fonts you designate as your favorites
Use of the mouse scroll wheel button to copy and paste text.

The interface is cool! I liked the skin and icons instantly!

Perhaps Jarte's most prominent features are it's customizable quickbar and shortcut keys. In addition to it's Split View mode and Word Count in the status bar, the Jarte word processor sets the user up for the best chance of smooth workflow and increased productivity. - It's a Productivity MACHINE!

As I was checking out some of it's other cool features, fontaphile that I am, I stumbled onto yet another cool feature at the bottom of the text drop down menu.


Fonts Online - FREE FONTS!!!
It is a link to a good font website called MyFonts.com. MyFonts is a time tested resource for free and purchasable fonts and font families. You can customize the sample by adding your own text and most fonts families have at least on member offered for free so I kinda went shopping.

I was hit instantly by 3 fonts in particular.
Vertrina sang to me like a siren.

Mimix Kid caught my attention but I was'nt really sold on it's overall usability...


until I saw that it had the endorsement of this smart ass little kid -

and that's good enough for me!


The most likely suspect for downloading was this beautiful, all purpose gem called Mentone.

Exquisite! Here is the info on it:

Mentone is a new general purpose typeface, an attempt at extending the line of the great sans-serifs of the previous century, Frutiger - Stone Sans - Myriad.
The font has round corners and subtle chamfers, which are all but invisible at text sizes, but add an upbeat, irreverent expression at display sizes.
The typeface is named after the beautiful bayside suburb of Melbourne, Australia, where the designer lives. More…
This new version (2.01) was spaced and kerned by Igino Marini of iKern.
The semibold cuts are now free!
Mentone Light
Mentone Light Italic
Mentone Regular
Mentone Italic
Mentone Semi Bold
Mentone Semi Bold Italic
Mentone Bold
Mentone Bold Italic
GLYPH COVERAGE
Basic Latin/English, West European Diacritics, Euro, Ligatures, Central Europe, Baltic, Turkish, Dingbats and Symbols.
Unfortunately No Panose Information Available (as is the case with most free fonts - eh!)

I downloaded Mentone Light and If I want to, I can take the whole kit and kaboodle with me into another program on another computer because Jarte has Install to USB Drive!

Infinitely cool!

Check out Jarte from Carolina Road Software