From the course: Expressive Typography
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Organizing and saving
From the course: Expressive Typography
Organizing and saving
- [Instructor] We live in a vast world of digital fonts, so managing your fonts is a necessity. This video applies to expressive type as well as the rest of the fonts that you use. Keeping your fonts organized with font management software will give you peace of mind. It's like having a tidy closet. Font management software is used for installing, activating, searching, comparing, and organizing fonts. This site lists the nine best font management software packages, based on user reviews. The most popular font management tool for Macs, by far, is "Font Book". It's free. I've polled a bunch of my designer friends and they use Font Book most of the time. You can search and preview your installed fonts, and you can create folders in Font Book to organize your workflow. Here's a folder I created in Font Book for psychedelic fonts, which were used for a project I was working on. For PCs, there's a similar function under the fonts menu where you can view and preview your fonts. It's also…
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