Designers, do you use a font manager?

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  • fris
    Too lazy to set a custom title
    • Aug 2002
    • 55679
    #1

    Designers, do you use a font manager?

    Curious if anyone uses something like Suitcase Fusion, Font Agent Pro, Font Expert, etc.
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    • lucas131
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      • Aug 2004
      • 11475
      #2
      waste of time for me, you have to be a real pro to use this. i just go do dafont and find font that fits to my actual project have a nice saturday night everyone

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        • SilentKnight
          Megan Fox's fluffer
          • Oct 2005
          • 24818
          #3
          Dafont all the way. I keep a minimum number of fonts on the system.

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            • fris
              Too lazy to set a custom title
              • Aug 2002
              • 55679
              #4
              Originally posted by lucas131
              waste of time for me, you have to be a real pro to use this. i just go do dafont and find font that fits to my actual project have a nice saturday night everyone
              I mean to go through all your fonts to see which one to use, since I have quite a few.
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                • Mutt
                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                  • Sep 2002
                  • 34431
                  #5
                  FontExpert - it's great. I have too many fonts to install them all so when I'm looking for a font I fire up FontExpert and scroll through them all and 'temporarily install' the ones that seem the best candidates for the project.
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                    • fris
                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                      • Aug 2002
                      • 55679
                      #6
                      Originally posted by Mutt
                      FontExpert - it's great. I have too many fonts to install them all so when I'm looking for a font I fire up FontExpert and scroll through them all and 'temporarily install' the ones that seem the best candidates for the project.
                      ya im using FE right now, suitcase fusion looks nice though
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                        • Hotrocket
                          Confirmed User
                          • May 2004
                          • 1327
                          #7
                          Like the looks of both software. I also own a sign shop and the font manager provided with the sign software leaves a lot to be desired. especially when working with clients, font selection is just too cumbersome.

                          Fris or anyone who uses FE now...I'm curious what FE doesn't do feature wise or what shortcoming does it have that has you looking at other font manager software?

                          I'm trying out FE right now.

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                            • lucas131
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                              • Aug 2004
                              • 11475
                              #8
                              Originally posted by fris
                              I mean to go through all your fonts to see which one to use, since I have quite a few.
                              yes, but for me it is always easier to search them on dafont cause of sorting updates and so

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                                • fris
                                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                                  • Aug 2002
                                  • 55679
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by lucas131
                                  yes, but for me it is always easier to search them on dafont cause of sorting updates and so
                                  ya i have a lot of commercial fonts, only reason why i use a manager to see.
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                                    • madko
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • May 2006
                                      • 566
                                      #10
                                      Font Expert - because of the temporal install feature. I also use dafont, but the process of finding a font there it's to slow.
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                                        • facialfreak
                                          Confirmed User
                                          • Feb 2005
                                          • 3018
                                          #11
                                          AMP Font Viewer

                                          I've used it for years on my windows work boxes!

                                          I keep a minimal number of fonts installed into Windows ... when windows needs to reload more than a hundred or so fonts each time it redraws the page, it really does hamper the performance of your system ...

                                          Benchmark your system with only 40 fonts installed ... and then run the exact same benchmark with 300 fonts installed, and once more with 1000 fonts installed ... and you will see the performance degradation before your eyes!!

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                                            • JamesM
                                              Confirmed User
                                              • Nov 2012
                                              • 732
                                              #12
                                              dafont here, tried font manager but fed with lots of fonts , so moved to dafont, searching is very easy.


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                                                • gimme-website
                                                  Confirmed User
                                                  • Jun 2008
                                                  • 1589
                                                  #13
                                                  dafont. 8 char
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                                                    • fris
                                                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                                                      • Aug 2002
                                                      • 55679
                                                      #14
                                                      Originally posted by gimme-website
                                                      dafont. 8 char
                                                      that only works for free fonts correct?
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                                                        • gimme-website
                                                          Confirmed User
                                                          • Jun 2008
                                                          • 1589
                                                          #15
                                                          Yeah its just free fonts on dafont. Some have personal use licences...
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