Organising Fonts OSX/Suitcase
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- Fleaguru
Don't know about any of you, but I got shartloads of fonts on my mac here. Different folders and all that. Anyone know of a way of keeping these all organized? If I get more fonts from someone or somewhere, I can dump that folder into a prog and it will organize the whole fookin lot on my machine - alphabetically?
Any for organization hints would be most helpful!
Tits & Beans,
- thenuge0
i use fontbook, some other guys here at work use suitcase.
- mg330
I just stick to Arial and Times New Roman.
Less decisions = more work time.
- afriend0
Check out FontAgent Pro, one of the better ones out there.
- afriend0
...it will organize, alphabetize, etc. automatically for you.
- vburo0
what mg said + comic sans.
- -_MU_-0
Well, suitcase lets you switch 'em on and off, and can list 'em alphabetically for you. It can be a bit unstable though. Heh, sometimes it decided to sitch my fonts with random system fonts and Gmail comes up written totally in some crazy ass gothic or graffitii font. Not really sure what you are asking dude - do you want to know if suitcase is good? Yeh, its ok. Do you want to know how to organise fonts in a logical structure system? then i am not your d00d! ;-)
- mg330
vburo,
Comic Sans in action!!
Look at this site and check out the shirt that says "I put the ill in Illinois."
http://www.northsideshirts.com/t…Found that site because the guy was written up in a local paper for creating shirts that call attention to our public transportation problems here.
They guy is an ad copywriter.I'm actually going to send him an email that says, 'Stick to copywriting, leave graphic design to those that are even slightly good at it."
- ********0
anyone use font reserve? I am content with it...
- ********0
Sometimes, I put them in a large bucket.
*washes out urine from bucket
*fills bucket with fonts
Anybody want a font? Where's that dude requesting Interstate? He willn't mind.
- timg0
i'm on mac osx using suitcase:
- i keep all my fonts on one designated FONTS partition.
- i've got all my fonts divided in folders for their foundry or designer. i find this is the easiest way to classify fonts.. if i need a T26 style font, i go look in T26 etc etc. the foundry defines the style. if a font doesn't have a known designer, then its prolly not worthy of my time to file.
- i drag and drop my fav foundry folders into suitcase.. keeping a select few on hand at all times, and loading up specialty stuff as temp fonts when i need them (for auto temp fonts drop on suitcase icon in the dock).
hope that helps... i 'd be interested to hear some other techniques.