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Last post: 9 months ago | Thread started: Aug 18, 12, 10:48 a.m.

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  • yurimon

    I have reached a point of font madness.

    I was wondering if anyone is good at organizing their fonts and can give some advice on how you organize your fonts.

    I would like to be more effective and spend less time in unorganized font search...

    Aug 18, 12, 10:48 a.m. – Permalink
  • yurimon

    I dont mean in form of a program like suitcase. I mean if form of categories...

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    Dog-earAug 18, 12, 12:12 p.m. – Permalink
  • fourth

    organization with out a program? hmm

    I use fontexplorer (still using the free version from a long time ago). I use smart set's and let the program organize the basics for me. And usually have set's for every project I do...

    • Me too although I did buy it to manage my completely legitimate font library...MrT
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    Dog-earAug 18, 12, 1:36 p.m. – Permalink
  • jaylarson

    browse big distributors (my fonts, fontshop, etc) and see how/what they do then organize that way or come up with your own.

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    Dog-earAug 19, 12, 6:14 p.m. – Permalink
  • MrT

    I find it helps to regularly throw away the 75% of them that you don't use or like.

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    Dog-earAug 19, 12, 6:19 p.m. – Permalink
  • Amicus

    ^ did that once... within a month there were 3 fonts I remembered throwing away that I had to use due to guidelines. Just put them in a shite fonts folder.

    • Fair point, archive rather than bin is better advice...MrT
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    Dog-earAug 19, 12, 6:40 p.m. – Permalink
  • gramme

    We use Font Explorer. Within that, we have the following classification sets:

    Antique Titling
    Contemporary Sans
    Contemporary Serif
    Fleischman
    Garalde/Oldstyle
    Geometric
    Grotesque
    Humanist
    Modern Serif
    Rounded
    Scotch Roman
    Script
    Slab
    Transitional Venetian

    That seems to cover just about everything.

    • no handwritten or script?Amicus
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    Dog-earAug 20, 12, 11:37 a.m. – Permalink
  • bogue

    I use font explorer and have the following setup. I have 3 folder sets... "Foundaries", "Styles" and "Projects" I also have two sets at the top called "*favs" and "*new". I then use color labeling on fonts of interest so when scrolling the entire list of fonts I can quickly pick out things that I like. This took me a HUGE amount of time to do to 8000+ fonts. But now that the system is in place it's quite easy, and i have the option to do font search by style, foundary or project.

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    Dog-earAug 20, 12, 12:37 p.m. – Permalink
  • bogue

    ^ Just to clarify in each one of those folders I have sets for each style or foundary, or project.

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    Dog-earAug 20, 12, 12:39 p.m. – Permalink

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