Fonts and Font Management
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- JG_LB
I have accumulated thousands of fonts over the years. I have FontExplorer but only use it as a way to disable and enable fonts.
What methods have you used to categorize so many fonts at once? Is it as slow and painful as I assume? I figure I have to go through each font and place in appropriate folder (serif, script, slab, etc etc)
- dopepope0
I found this to be an issue too over the years. I use the default Font Book on Mac, but I can't install all my fonts because it's gets sluggish and strange once too many are loaded. There needs to be a way to have a manager that allows you to see and sample fonts that aren't necessarily loaded, so you know that's what you want to load. Otherwise you're stuck with lots of fonts that may or may not be what you need, but you'd never know it because they aren't loaded.
- that's what FontExplorer is for. i'm looking for a better way to organize them into categoriesJG_LB
- VectorMasked0
By Foundry.
- jaylarson0
categorize and have fonts in overlapping categories:
• by type
sans
-grotesk
-humanist
• foundry
• designer
• project
- JG_LB0
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yeah thats kind of how i have it now but it's more a clusterfuck than anything. i have a feeling i have some great fonts that i'm not using because i'm not organized. i guess i just have to go one by one and categorize them all
- mg330
The real problem is the similarity between so many fonts. I'm convinced that I could scale down to no more than 2 dozen "regular" serif and sans-serif fonts, and the rest just more unique ones that I'd occasionally use. I'll never devote the time to that though. Ever.
- doesnotexist0
i just use times new roman all the time so i don't have to bother.
- mg330
Ever stop to think that there are probably people with Helvetica, and maybe one serif font installed and that's it?