About two years ago, I exhaustively went through my entire collection, deleted thousands of duplicates that had similar names but were clearly the same font, and I categorized the entire collection into folders based on the type of font (serif, san-serif, graffiti, Halloween, handwriting, brush style, etc, etc.) I have about 50 or so categories. I used to be able to name hundreds of them on site, but my memory has long since faded. For a time, in the late 90’s, I was obsessed with getting ahold of every font there was, but soon enough it became apparent that there were new fonts being developed and added to the web by the hundreds, and I eventually realized that there are hundreds of thousands of fonts out in the world, and I gave up on my obsession.Īt my peak, I had close to 40,000 fonts. I started out with maybe two or three hundred fonts back in the late 80’s early 90’s on my Amiga. (Of course, maybe it’s just me, not knowing what I’m doing.)īut isn’t that what a font program is supposed to do? - Let you have control over your fonts. So, while FontBook is great for viewing font collections on their own, it doesn’t appear to control which fonts are loaded into the system. Like the earlier poster, SteveH, said about FontBook: Clunky. (I would have thought a command-click on other collections would open up several at one time, but no dice.) I can only pick one collection at a time.(Suitcase used to let me see just the fonts I wanted.) I still see ALL the fonts loaded in the system. Do they actually affect which fonts are loaded in the system at the time? They don’t seem to do ANYTHING to the fonts that show up as available when choosing fonts in other programs.Now that I’m looking at FontBook (instead of typing off the top of my head like in the first post) I guess what I really needed to know was about USING those collections. Thanks schpengle, that answers it perfectly. I recently discovered the wonder of Google Fonts, so have downloaded to my hard drive about a hundred of those. I figured out that there are “favorites” in Affinity Photo, so I’ve been using that feature to cull down the list of available fonts. Since I can’t make groups in FontBook, I found a kluge way to do it. (Haven’t tried hard, though.) Can that even be done? Can you use FontBook to pick and choose which fonts are open? (A simple yes or no would be great - if yes, I’ll go look it up for a “how-to”.) But I’ve not been able to figure out how to make groups in FontBook, so I can have more control. Would be nice to be able to hide the fonts I NEVER use (some are System fonts and CAN’T be got rid of). So I just keep a few loaded for basic choices. Eh? He said all this as he lifted his listening horn up to his aging ears.)īut in recent years, I don’t want to clog up my Mac with too many fonts to choke on. My has the world improved while I’ve been out hiding in the hinterlands. (And what’s that you say? The print world has gone to a PDF workflow now? Well, ain’t that something. That’s when Suitcase was an absolute necessity. Once upon a time - 15 years ago - in making magazines, I kept a ton of fonts around and still have a CD (somewhere in a box) of the entire Adobe font library (1600 bucks in its day). Great for viewing fonts though.īut my needs are simple nowadays. I’m using FontBook, which is, as you say, clunky. Pinegrow does not include anyway to manage these, so maybe just using Google ensures that your site is consistent to all… QUESTION: Besides Google Fonts, does anybody use any web basic fonts? (Arial, Georgia etc?) Why? The free version is usable, but the lifetime license is more than FontBase. It is also no subscription.įontBase is not bad, but does not support PostScript fonts, and in chatting with the developer, won’t any time soon. I have worked with FontExplorer X Pro and it is equally good. (Like Adobe they are going all subscription for my benefit.) It is by far the most robust for general print work. Hence - Moving to Pinegrow.įor Fonts: I am using Suitcase Fusion, and won’t go past version 9. I’m not updating to Catalina (at least not soon) for several reasons, but mostly because I want to still use my CS6 suite if needed. Looking to ditch Adobe in all things - but its not always easy. Libva error: /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.I’m a one man Communications department during the day and freelance at night. We strongly recommend you move away from webviews to OOPIF or BrowserView in order for your app to be more secure This combination is fundamentally less secure and effectively bypasses the protections of contextIsolation. (electron) Security Warning: A WebContents was just created with both webviewTag and contextIsolation enabled. Launching the downloaded appimage from the website does work. I tried editing the pkgbuild to install the newest version (2.14.0), but same issue. I haven't used it in a week and now it just says Starting.
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