mac font management 1313 Responses

Last post: 3 months ago | Thread started: Feb 6, 13, 3:27 a.m.

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• derm

  i'm just doing a bit of research into what people are using for font management?
  (for a new Imac osx mountain Lion).

  Suitcase? Font explorer?

  what is best?

  thanks in advance.

  Feb 6, 13, 3:27 a.m. – Permalink

• MSL

  I use FontExplorer.

  It takes a while to get used to it's organisation and there are lots of settings you can tweak. It's also good at weeding out all non-system fonts, so ideally you end up with your basic system fonts, and then another folder which FontExplorer has full control over.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 6, 13, 3:30 a.m. – Permalink

• derm

  Thanks MSL.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 6, 13, 3:33 a.m. – Permalink

• PaulM74

  ^ agreed - font explorer is probably best I've used...

  

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  Dog-earFeb 6, 13, 3:39 a.m. – Permalink

• Gnash

  I use Suitcase at home, Font Explorer at work. Prefer Suitcase

  

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  Dog-earFeb 6, 13, 7:42 a.m. – Permalink

• ideaist

  I wish Fontcase was a little more robust:

  

  http://www.bohemiancoding.com/fo…

  Instead, I'm cornered into using FontExplorer X Pro:

  

  http://www.fontexplorerx.com/pro…

  After years of issues with Suitcase Fusion 4, which I will not reference images nor links due to the countless time spent repairing "database errors" over the past months/years...

  

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  Dog-earFeb 6, 13, 8:36 a.m. – Permalink

• doesnotexist

  I like font explorer—have been using it since its release for work, suitcase prior to that.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 6, 13, 10:27 a.m. – Permalink

• bogue

  Font Explorer all the way. Works great.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 6, 13, 10:39 a.m. – Permalink

• CyBrainX

  Does anyone have issues with fonts in Chrome while using Font Explorer? I've read how using any third party font manager messes up fonts in Chrome.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 13, 5:11 a.m. – Permalink

• doesnotexist

  ^ sometimes yes, but chrome is known to have font/cache issues and I generally avoid it now and continue to use FontExplorer

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 13, 7:12 a.m. – Permalink

• stewart

  Geez, i use Font Book. Is that wrong?

  • not at all!– monospaced1/2

    nah i use fontbook at home– doesnotexist2/2

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 13, 8:34 a.m. – Permalink

• jkidwell

  The chrome issue comes and goes depending upon what the Chrome dev team implements.

  Suitcase Fusion has more tools integrated directly into Creative Suite app panels. Let me know if you have questions about it.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 13, 8:44 a.m. – Permalink

• derm

  Thanks for the info people.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 13, 5:38 a.m. – Permalink

• utopian

  http://www.google.com/search?cli…

  • Wasn't there a thread last week?– fyoucher1

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 13, 5:44 a.m. – Permalink