Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use?
I believe that someone else on this list recommended Linotype Font Explorer X a while back. I have it installed on my various design machines and it works pretty well. It's still in beta, and every time I've reported a bug to them they replied no it's not, so I gave up telling them stuff, but the price is right (for now at least): free. The program lets you enable and disable fonts or groups of them. It stores the original font files in its own little folder and then activates them as you tell it to. If you have a large number of fonts, you need to spend a fair amount of time arranging them in the application before it is of much use. But after that you can choose to enable all the blackletter fonts for your goth clothing designs and then disable those and activate all your dingbat fonts for icon work. The location on the web: http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX It looks like they have a Mac version now too. Michael Micheletti On Nov 9, 2007 7:21 AM, Bryan Minihan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a good Font organizer for Windows? Free would be nice but I'd pay for something really useful. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use?
Incidentally, it appears the Bitstream Font Navigator (which I loved, and appeared to do much the same as Linotype's tool) is still available (sort of) and has been written up here: http://www.noscope.com/journal/2004/09/font-management-solution If you take the time to try it out you might agree it's extremely useful (and I agree with the blogger's comments). Bryan http://www.bryanminihan.com *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use?
Thanks Michael and Linda, much appreciate the recommendation. I just checked their site where they seem to have taken down the Windows beta version, but asked to keep checking back occasionally. I'll keep an eye out =] Much appreciated...anyone want to start a fight about TTF vs Postscript fonts? Anyone? ;D Bryan http://www.bryanminihan.com -Original Message- From: Michael Micheletti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 2:12 PM To: Bryan Minihan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use? I believe that someone else on this list recommended Linotype Font Explorer X a while back. I have it installed on my various design machines and it works pretty well. It's still in beta, and every time I've reported a bug to them they replied no it's not, so I gave up telling them stuff, but the price is right (for now at least): free. The program lets you enable and disable fonts or groups of them. It stores the original font files in its own little folder and then activates them as you tell it to. If you have a large number of fonts, you need to spend a fair amount of time arranging them in the application before it is of much use. But after that you can choose to enable all the blackletter fonts for your goth clothing designs and then disable those and activate all your dingbat fonts for icon work. The location on the web: http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX It looks like they have a Mac version now too. Michael Micheletti On Nov 9, 2007 7:21 AM, Bryan Minihan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a good Font organizer for Windows? Free would be nice but I'd pay for something really useful. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use?
It has been ages since I used a font organizer. Aside from working with fonts clients supply ... I think we have evolved to not need one. If I remember right, it was because RAM and memory was expensive and software not very smart. Wonder why it just dropped my radar maybe because I now use Windows. :) Does Adobe still sell ATM? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=22360 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use?
I agree that the need for a Font organizer seems to have gone by the wayside over the years. I recently found myself more in the graphic-designer role in a small company, coming from a big one where we only used 2-3 basic fonts for everything. I guess now that I'm closer to the marketing edge, I find myself looking for a way to manage the 1500 or so I've acquired over a dozen years. I remember ATM, that goes way back =]. I should look around to see if I can find it. IIRC, they charged for it, which is why I tried the Corel product... My hesitation in just installing all my fonts is that I'm also running development environments and lots of other goodies for the web-dev and prototyping side of my brain, so I'm hesitant to slow my machine down with too many unused fonts (even 2GB RAM fills up quickly). Maybe XP doesn't really care how many fonts are installed, but I recall it being a big problem with Win98 W2K. Thanks =] Bryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Parth Upadhye Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use? It has been ages since I used a font organizer. Aside from working with fonts clients supply ... I think we have evolved to not need one. If I remember right, it was because RAM and memory was expensive and software not very smart. Wonder why it just dropped my radar maybe because I now use Windows. :) Does Adobe still sell ATM? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=22360 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use?
I find it useful to manage fonts when I'm working in Photoshop or InDesign especially. The font lists just get too long and unwieldy otherwise. A fast machine doesn't help much when you need an exceptionally steady hand to pick exactly one of a couple hundred fonts. Much easier to just chop the list down, work from a smaller set, and then reset the font list for the next job. Michael Micheletti On Nov 9, 2007 2:37 PM, Bryan Minihan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree that the need for a Font organizer seems to have gone by the wayside over the years. I recently found myself more in the graphic-designer role in a small company, coming from a big one where we only used 2-3 basic fonts for everything. I guess now that I'm closer to the marketing edge, I find myself looking for a way to manage the 1500 or so I've acquired over a dozen years. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use?
Check out fontexplorer by linotype. It's free and really good. I'm pretty sure they have a version for windows (though I can't say how it stacks up). Michael Lisboa Creative Director Kizmo 414 Mason Street, Suite 702 San Francisco, CA 94102 Office: 415-398-1220 Mobile: 415-513-6929 www.kizmodesign.com This message contains information that is or may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the information contained in or attached to the message. If you have received the message in error, please advise the sender by replying [EMAIL PROTECTED] delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. -Original Message- From: Parth Upadhye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 09, 2007 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use? It has been ages since I used a font organizer. Aside from working with fonts clients supply ... I think we have evolved to not need one. If I remember right, it was because RAM and memory was expensive and software not very smart. Wonder why it just dropped my radar maybe because I now use Windows. :) Does Adobe still sell ATM? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=22360 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use?
I blogged about a little tool called FontCard a couple weeks back that might interest you, although it's Mac-only. http://designaday.tumblr.com/post/15073080 Jack Jack L. Moffett Interaction Designer inmedius 412.459.0310 x219 http://www.inmedius.com The World is not set up to facilitate the best any more than it is set up to facilitate the worst. It doesn't depend on brilliance or innovation because if it did, the system would be unpredictable. It requires averages and predictables. So, good deeds and brilliant ideas go against the grain of the social contract almost by definition. They will be challenged and will require enormous effort to succeed. Most fail. - Michael McDonough *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
