To people outside of design and typography, I'm sure that the words "font manager" sound like something taking itself way too seriously-like some sort of gilded spice rack-but for those that need to work with fonts on a daily basis, the font manager is serious business. To prepress houses and service bureaus, it is the pit stop: you turn it on, hit Print, and go deal with the real work-the more time you have to spend dealing with the font management/activation process, the less money you are making.
For designers that juggle a range of clients and projects, working with fonts is more a nebulous creative ritual of feeling a brand, and it demands a tool worthy of the task. In simpler times, you pulled open a drawer, chose between the three sets of steel blocks, said "I don't care who you are, you're getting Garamond," and that was that. Nowadays clients are wiser and choosier, fonts are cheaper (not making them out of steel helps), and everyone and their dog is making fonts (the dog fonts are terrible you really don't want to use those).
The result is a need to handle and navigate the abundant libraries available while not stifling that creative process.
Fontagent pro for mac os#
Now, years after Suitcase started the ball rolling on System 6, we're lucky enough to have some very mature font management tools for Mac OS X.
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