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Fontbase ~ a free Font Manager
I have been using Suitcase Fusion as my font manager of choice, but as my font collection has grown, I find that it gets bogged down and performs really slowly.
I heard of a free utility, Fontbase (LINK) which is free and works really well, the free version is all I (and probably you) will ever need.
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Rik Datta was asking me about one of these recently. Here you go Rik.
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I am not sure of this yet. For instance how do you open other fonts, so far I have my entire font collection not just the ones I use but also those not installed.
Thanks Bob, this is interesting nevertheless.
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Larry, you can easily navigate to the folder of uninstalled fonts.
Bob, you can activate fonts and font families, but can you actually install fonts from fontbase. If so, I can't find it.
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Larry, you can easily navigate to the folder of uninstalled fonts.
Thanks that's what I did but couldn't get a (new page?) showing only installed fonts.
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Sorry for not getting back to anyone sooner.
Fonts are not installed, they are activated and deactivated - by hovering over the font name in the attached screenshot.
It helps to have all your fonts organized into folders - Serif, Sans, Grunge, etc., then drag those font folders into Fontbase.
Fontbase will have already located your system fonts and it is just a matter of activating/deactivating as you need your fonts.
This prevents having too many font loaded into Windows and slowing your system to a crawl.
I have all my fonts in a folder on my desktop, subdivided into categories. and I drag and drop the categories into Fontbase
and activate/deactivate as and when I want.
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NexusFont is another candidate for font management. I had a little trouble at first installing it in Win 10, but patience paid off.
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I did work with FontBase for a while, but anality (the quality of being anal) lead me back to one of Nexus' small, fast, free util.
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How do these interact (or do they) with Xara?
And OG how is NexusFont better?
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I love Nexusfont. The ONLY downside is having to wait while it loads 11,000 fonts.
I've tried FONTBASE twice now, and uninstalled it twice. Don't like it at all - Not can't use it, it's quite useable, just don't like it.