Font Viewver, which one please?

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 11:46 pm

Well, I have downloaded quite a few fonts lately, very nice by the way, there are planty in the net for free. Now, I have so many that I don't know how to manage them....

I don't want them to be all installed toguether, as they make a mess of my system. It gets heavy in some applications like Flash. And then if you ever need to look for a font in a few minutes, you simple can't, as you'll take about a hour.

What do I want?

I would like an app capable of storing my fonts WITHOUT installing them. Capable of showing me the fonts off the programs, to clasify them by tipes.

Hopefully, fast!

If you know of a font manager which may be good, reliable, please let me know, cheers.

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[ This Message was edited by: Nestor on 2005-04-23 00:46 ]

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 2:48 am

On 2005-04-23 00:46, Nestor wrote:
It gets heavy in some applications like Flash.

To hell with Flash!

I would like an app capable of storing my fonts WITHOUT installing them. Capable of showing me the fonts off the programs, to clasify them by tipes.

Well, fonts are really just one file at your system. Look at %WINDIR%Fonts .
You can just copy the files there. Double-clicking on the file opens font viewer (at least on Win XP). Delete if you don't like.

What do you mean by classifying by types?

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 5:44 am

beware of cheapo fonts - or the ones designed by the ones who just got carried away by their graphic tools...

a good font is a lot of work which requires both artistry and craftsmanship

look a the Windows 'Arial' font for example, and compare it to a similiar sized 'Helvetica'.
Arial was invented to spare 'Helvetica' licenses - on screen the difference isn't even that obvious, but in print it's similiar to a Miniscope versus Minimax comparison

on the other hand, if you're doing lots of 'screen work' and internet design, the afforementioned differences may not be relevant, unless the stuff is also bound to a print layout (corporate id etc) - not to forget that a lot of great classic print fonts have indeed ugly screen representations...

cheers, Tom

[ This Message was edited by: astroman on 2005-04-23 06:47 ]

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 5:45 am

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Well, fonts are really just one file at your system. Look at %WINDIR%Fonts .
You can just copy the files there. Double-clicking on the file opens font viewer (at least on Win XP). Delete if you don't like.

What do you mean by classifying by types?
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Try selecting among 2500 fonts, and you will be asking the same questions as I did

What I mean is to sort them by types, for instance:

Funy
Formal
English
Spanish
Bizarre
Beautiful

etc....

That's it.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 5:48 am

On 2005-04-23 06:19, stardust wrote:
simple freeware:
http://www.dirfile.com/x_fonter.htm

[ This Message was edited by: stardust on 2005-04-23 06:28 ]

Thank you Stardust, it seems to be a capable package to manage fonts. I'll try it, cheers.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 5:48 am

Nevertheless, I have done some research in the net myself, but I preffer first experience testimonials, those are the real ones... Cheers.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 6:25 am

Of course, if they were just 50, I would have never posted this thread...

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[ This Message was edited by: Nestor on 2005-04-23 07:26 ]

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:22 am

What I mean is to sort them by types, for instance:
Funy
Formal
English
Spanish
Bizarre
Beautiful

And by which means the program could do the categorizing? The problem is there are no pre-defined groups.

Maybe some programs have huge databases of many known fonts, and can do the grouping by fonts' names.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 12:41 pm

Here is your and my answer...

http://www.extensis.com/en/products/pro ... US&id=1054

I have done a long research and much reading, and for a number of reasons, I have chosen this particular one, it seems to have everything you need, without overloading in price nor useless features like other font managers. Have a look.