Quick Tip:
Get Control of Your Fonts with a Free Font-Management Utility
If you're a typical designer, you've been collecting fonts – lots of them. But with over a thousand available font faces, it's easy to get overwhelmed by all the choices on your computer.
Linotype – a company that's been in the type business for more than 120 years – is offering a free solution to manage your fonts in a full-featured font management utility called FontExplorert.
FontExplorer allows you to keep a library of fonts and activate them only when you want them. It has an elegant interface that provides previews of every font you have, allowing you to see what the font looks like before it's activated.
It also allows you to keep your fonts in different font sets (called “folders”). For instance, you could have fonts categorized as serif fonts, sans serif fonts, display fonts, headline fonts, and the like.
One of the most powerful features of FontExplorer is its ability to auto-activate fonts in individual InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop projects. (Its many other features are explained on the Linotype website.)
The bad news is FontExplorer is available only for Mac OS X users at this time. However, the company is developing a Windows version. If you're a Mac OS X user, you can download FontExplorer directly from the website. If you're a Windows user, there's a link on the website where you can sign up to receive notification when the Windows version is available.
For more information or to download the Mac OS X version, visit: www.linotype.com
For Windows users, there's a freeware program called “The Font Thing” that lets you browse installed and uninstalled fonts, and change sample text “on the fly” or easily switch between your own standard text samples. (Thanks to Mike Klassen, one of our members, for sharing information about this program with us!)
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