Font Manager
- Started 9 years ago
- Last post 4 years ago
- 9 Responses
- CincodeMayo
Need to find a good font manager for my home computer. FontBook is so slow and takes forever to manage. Thinking of buying Suitcase Fusion 6 (the same one I use at work) but I was just reading about a couple cheaper options:
RightFont ($40) http://rightfontapp.com
FontYou ($0) https://cloud.fontyou.com/about/…Has anyone tried either of these? Are they decent or should I stick to one of the big names?
- utopian0
How many fonts do you have loaded/active?
I found that even with Suitcase, if you have too many fonts activated it will cause problems with your operating system.
I am currently running FontBook with about 250 fonts active and have I have zero problems.
- CincodeMayo0
Got about 800 active on a new MacBook Pro. I could disable some to speed things up. Just like UI better on some of the other programs, but I guess I can't complain being that FontBook is free.
- doesnotexist1
i have like...10 fonts activated
- I don't think I've ever checked, until now. I have 50K loaded into FontExplorer with 1005 active.Gnash
- oh DAMN, make that 48! SOOO MANYY FOOOOOONTSdoesnotexist
- This.maquito
- CincodeMayo0
So in FontBook, will disabling fonts under the "User" mean that apps won't be able to use them? Like doesn't Microsoft programs need those Asian fonts activated?
- For example PS and ID will say the font is missing,...simply activate and reload the particular doc in the app, and you are good to go.utopian
- What about system stuff? Noticed some fonts allow me to deactivate it, some don't...CincodeMayo
- CincodeMayo0
And shouldn't Adobe have some sort of font manager included in CC by now?
- shapesalad0
I have a couple of 'collection' folders in mac osx's FontBook software, with about 10 fonts in each collection. Just stuff I bought from atipo etc....
I love to go into illustrator and instead of big drop down menu of fonts... simply see 'folders' of fonts, so I can quickly try out the fonts I've bought. I tried starring them to see them in 'favourites' but i'd like another 'favourites' selection for another collection...
Is there any way to see fonts via 'collections'/folders, a free manager that allows this?
- canoe0
You don't REALLY need 800 fonts activated, do you? If you are worried about cost/money - just deactivate 600 fonts. It's a good practice to get in, but I only preach that... I have too many fonts activated right now.
- The 3-panel brochure I’m working on right now is using 873 fonts tho. It’s a complex design********
- I just made the gas facecanoe
- The 3-panel brochure I’m working on right now is using 873 fonts tho. It’s a complex design
- shapesalad0
Found a solution... May work for you guys too, for creating lists/folders of fonts in Illustrator (Adobe wider suite):
The Libraries panel.
Type of a row of fonts using the fonts you'd want grouped, perhaps from a particular Foundry etc.
Click on one line of text, go to libraries panel, press the +, add the Character Style.
Problem is... it's a bit glitchy in applying the font style.
- grafician1
I must say, Font Explorer X WAS the shit...