Because this is probably the number one reason I use a font manager, I found FontCase to be stellar in this area. You can choose to display the fonts using Lorem Ipsum, Gibberish, or even your own customized text. The best feature of FontCase is its font comparison capabilitiesĬomparing fonts displays all the faces in a selected font family in a variety of ways, including as headlines and body text, as well as all the glyphs contained in the font. But the magic happens when you click the Compare button. You can click a button and get a nice preview in a bezel overlay. The main preview area allows you to view the font faces in a small preview box, with a number in the corner letting you know how many font faces are in each font family. One of the best aspects of working with FontCase is the multitude of ways you can view your fonts. No matter what I did, InDesign CS4 never once automatically activated a single font in my documents – and I tried many. I simply could not get it to work with any of my fonts (most of which are OpenType, if that makes any difference).
However, I ran into a brick wall when I began testing the auto-activation feature of FontCase. I had no issues manually activating or deactivating fonts, and none of the Adobe Creative Suite apps had a problem updating their font list after doing so. You can even see when you added the font to your database, as well as the last time it was activated.Įven with 4,000+ fonts loaded, FontCase launched quickly and didn’t appear to add any delay to the system or other apps. FontCase makes the job easy with the ability to add tags, rating, foundry, and custom notes. Once my fonts were imported, I began creating collections to make it easier to find fonts I use often, and categorize them by style. One single file containing all my fonts makes it easier to backup and keep track of – rather than having them scattered all over my hard drive. Suitcase Fusion also uses this method of storing fonts, so I was used to the concept – and prefer it. FontCase uses a vault to store all your fonts in, making activating, searching and working with your fonts safer, easier and faster. Importing my collection of 4,000+ fonts took only a minute or so, and FontCase identified a few stray duplicates.
MAC FONTCASE MAC
While the appearance of the app has nothing to do with how it performs, for most Mac users it’s still a point of interest.įontCase is so Mac-like in appearance, you'd swear Apple designed it This is one area I’ve never liked about Suitcase Fusion, it just looks bad. In fact, one could make the argument that FontCase is what Apple’s own Font Book should have been. While the overall layout of virtually any font manager is the same, FontCase managed to really make it look good. Clearly Bohemian Coding was borrowing from iTunes here.
The first thing I noticed about FontCase is it’s gorgeous Mac-like interface. But when the developers of FontCase offered a review license, I decided it was time to take a look at an alternative font manager.
MAC FONTCASE MAC OS
Since the days of Mac OS 8, I’ve been an avid Extensis Suitcase user. With nearly 4,200 fonts in my collection, I’ve never run a Mac without a font manager. The difficult part of having such a large collection is managing it. Any graphic designer or production artist worth a darn has a multi-gigabyte collection of fonts, many rarely used, just waiting for the perfect job to come along to use them with.
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