Is there a good font organizer?
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October 20th, 2008
Over the last few years I’ve added quite a few fonts and my old “scroll through all the possibilities” technique is taking longer and longer. Usually I have a good idea what “type” of font I want to use, but don’t want to fall into using the same few fonts regardless of the project. Any recommendations? I’ve done a few online searches but reviews are mixed and nothing jumped out as a standout solution.
Bonus if it shows the full character set with all the glyphs included.
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there is a really good free one I will try to find it.
Here is one FontExplorer
PC or Mac, been around a while, free, used at a professional level by some of my friends.
Another vote for Font Explorer. Custom sets, smart sets, everything you need.
Thanks Bri, last time I did the same search, they were only offering the program for Mac. It looks like a good solution.
It looks like they temporarily pulled the PC version for now to make an official release (no idea how long ago that was). I did find the link below for anyone else who is interested.
http://fex.linotype.com/download/pc/FontExplorerX-0.9.1.2250.exe
Are either of you on PC? If so, would you mind checking which version you have?
Thanks again.
I have both mac and pc but don’t use font management on my pc as I do all my design work on my mac.
Sorry about that.
the mac already comes with font book.app. Which does exactly what you want, at leastif you have a mac
Yeah, FontBook’s pretty great. Protip: if you’re on Leopard, you can use QuickLook on fonts. And if you select a bunch of fonts and press the little slides/thumbnails/whatever-you-call-it button you can preview a bunch of fonts at once.
The great part of FontBook is the ability to, basically do as you all have side. You can create “Font Libraries” from any set of font’s. So you can make a Fav’s, you can make one that could be called “Ugly” and throw in any “Normal” font, as I have done.
As for PC, I don’t know about XP, but I know you can create font collections in Office 2007, and I /think/ you can even do that with Vista’s dumb, stupid, font folder.
P.S. I hate Vista
FontList http://www.bitstorm.org/fontlist/
quickest and easiest one i’ve found yet.
you can type in your own preview text, great for seeing what the title or company name will look like in a certain font. view on screen or print them out.
this is my new favorite:
AMP Font Viewer http://www.ampsoft.net
this one allows you to organize fonts into categories you create: make a category and name it, add any font to that category, view on screen or print out by categories with your own preview text, create as many categories as you want, put one font into as many different categories as you want.
some of the categories i’ve made: art deco, curly, expanded, handwriting, grunge, fat
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