Font Management 2023
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- Wolfboy
What font management programs are you using these days? And more specifically, which are your favoured non-subscription ones?
I've been using FontExplorer X Pro on Mac for years, but since they moved to subscription and stopped updating the stand alone app, it's been getting a bit sketchy. For example, I've been getting lots of broken fonts in the Mail app where I just get rows of question marks instead of the text.
So what's good out there right now if I'm not up for yet another subscription to a piece of software?
- Continuity2
I've been using FontBase for years and years. Still on the free version, and I find it perfect. Runs in the background, kind of a set-and-forget thing, with a very small resource footprint.
And — as far as I know — there's no limit on the number of collections you can have with the free version.
- That said, they do have a subscription ($3 US/month), or you can buy it outright for $180 with lifetime updates.Continuity
- What is it you gain with a subscription?jagara
- Thanks, I'll check this one out.Wolfboy
- doesnotexist1
Font Book is bussin
- Really? I've heard it's actually Fire.Wolfboy
- yesdoesnotexist
- utopian2
Font Book is Fire
- yesdoesnotexist
- Really? I've heard it's actually bussin.Wolfboy
- yesdoesnotexist
- pango0
any good ones on windows?
- Gnash1
Still using suitcase fusion. The ability to sync my fonts between my laptop and desktop is too useful for me to give it up
- ideaist1
https://fontba.se (Mac/PC)
https://rightfontapp.com (Mac)
&
https://typefaceapp.com (Mac)
are your options, unless you can pay for Suitcase Fusion (now "Connect Fonts").
- I used Right Font for a while and it was ace BUT Suitcase won the cloud-based feature(s) and I can't go back.ideaist
- oey_oey0
Oh Monotype!
...I received an Email months ago about the exciting news.Fuck this!
- oey_oey0
How's the Font Base experience with Adobe?
- For me, seamless. If I activate a font in Font Base, it's in the font list in PS.
Given how capricious any Adobe product can be, though, YMMV.Continuity
- For me, seamless. If I activate a font in Font Base, it's in the font list in PS.
- oey_oey1
Okay, making the switch...
Not very happy with it but paying almost four times more in just one year for a library of fonts I really don't need at the moment is totally not an option.
...FontBase here I come!
- woowahesque1
I find, with each new project, I ignore the hundreds of already installed ones and spend ages searching the web for something new
- Lol, sameGnash
- i use the same 5 over and over and over and over and over and over again.doesnotexist
- slappy0
We use ConnectFonts for our team but its constantly signing everyone out and it costs USD$1080/year for 9 people.
Everyone dislikes it, but we need a central library for our fonts. Is the consensus still that FontBase is the best option?