Font ORganization
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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...
- yurimon0
I dont mean in form of a program like suitcase. I mean if form of categories...
- fourth0
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
- jaylarson0
browse big distributors (my fonts, fontshop, etc) and see how/what they do then organize that way or come up with your own.
- MrT0
I find it helps to regularly throw away the 75% of them that you don't use or like.
- gramme0
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 VenetianThat seems to cover just about everything.
- bogue0
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.
- bogue0
^ Just to clarify in each one of those folders I have sets for each style or foundary, or project.