Sucker for fonts.

[Bullgrit]

I have a font management program, already. I don't remember the name of it, right now. And unless The Font Thing actually goes through my fonts and organizes them automatically, it really ain't any better. The problem with 10,000 fonts is having to go through them and categorize them myself.

If it takes just 5 seconds to look at, decide, and categorize each font, that's almost 14 hours of work.

Hell, if I could find a program that just sorts out the roman/serif fonts, that'd be a good start. Would probably take out 5,000 fonts, right there.

Bullgrit

 

[jaerdaph]

Hell, if I could find a program that just sorts out the roman/serif fonts, that'd be a good start. Would probably take out 5,000 fonts, right there.

The Font Thing also lets you filter your installed fonts automatically by all, serif, sans serif, monospaced, script, decorative, and pictorial, or any combination of those. You could then select all the installed serif fonts, for example, at once and add them to a user defined collection called Serif.

One reason I use The Font Thing is because it lets me view and select multiple fonts at once and add them quickly to one of my user defined categories.

 

[dogoftheunderworld]

Gah! I love fonts! But I have so many , my eyes bleed when I try to find the right one.

Is there any software that organizes fonts within applications, or do font managers just load/un-load groups of fonts at the OS level?

(BTW, thanks for all the great links (necro, and otherwise). I will be sending you all black roses )

 

[Alan Shutko]

The ones for the Mac (such as FontExplorer X Pro, which I use) loads and unloads them at the OS level. They also hook into most apps so that if you load a document containing fonts that aren't currently activated, the font manager will activate them on the fly. (FEXPro also can deactivate fonts when you log out, when you quit the app, etc.)

The way I work with it is to keep only a bare minimum of fonts activated normally. When I'm working on something and want a new font, I'll switch over to FEXPro and look for the font. Then, I'll activate it and find it in the app font menus.

This doesn't organize the fonts in the app, but since there are only a few fonts loaded at one time, the app menus are small enough to find what you need.