This has to be one for the Guinness Book of World records!
Richard: use a font management program there are a few out there, some free.
Do you have an overview of 12,544 fonts? How many of these fonts are near-identical? How many would you recognise? How many would you use regularly?
How many are dodgy? Or did you pay for them all?
What John said, Font manager. www.extensis.com is what I understand most pros like.
12.544 fonts! You must be very rich!
Unless of course you’ve downloaded them from "various sources" – along with quite a number of duff ones (just one bad font can screw up your system) and quite possibly a virus or two in the bargain.
A "good graphics designer or print designer" would have at his/her disposal a manageable number of useable fonts. Time is money and who has the time to search through thousands of (largely similar) fonts?!
As has already been said, Font Manager (and a good clear-out) is the way to go.
A LOT of the "free fonts" are just (bad) ripoffs of commercial ones.
Some OS have also limitations with the number of fonts. 12000 "useful" fonts is just insane.
"To be exact, there are 12,544 fonts installed on my system."
A-HA!
I think I finally tracked down the "designer" who puts our neighborhood association’s monthly newsletter together!
😉 XD
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If only I did neighborhood newsletters you might be right!!
I’m actually having a difficult time finding a font manager that doesnt "suck". I checked out Extensis, didn’t see anything that I haven’t seen before.
I’d like to have a "Font Manager" that recognizes duplicate fonts, allows me to remove them, and if possible, could catagorize via the style of the font.
Any good suggestions?
and if possible, could catagorize via the style of the font.
In my office, that’s me!
Rob (not associated with me)
Richard: Try Bitstream Font Navigator, it is included with the CorelDraw Suite.
I do several magazines, so I get ads from all kinds of sources, I have 2500 fonts installed and active, but even that is overkill (but not by much).
You should really consider if they are really ‘ALL useful’.
I second ID.Awe Font Navigator can sort fonts by format and by style. You can also make custom groups to load depending on the work you are doing. Why would you want Benguiat Frisky loaded if you are doing a burial announcement?
I rarely have more than 100 or so actually installed, in spite of having a couple of thousand I have accumulated over time. (Incidentally most of these have come bundled with graphics programs rather than being downloaded as "bargain packages" from the Internet.)
I use a separate font partition, so that the fonts never get corrupted or fragmented. Also helps with app loads and usage. Been doing this for several years.
FontExpert 2005 is the best font manager that I know of.
