Feature Request: Custom Font Categories

[CJ Randolph]

In Designer you can favorite fonts right now (heart them) which is great, but it would be very handy to be able to create custom font categories/filters. There are automatically-created dropdown categories such as All, Recent, Fixed Width, PDF, etc. I'd really appreciate the ability to name groups based on what I want need, and be able to drop them into those categories — Serif, Sans, Thick, Thin, Playful... whatever way I need to describe my fonts (good for texture, watercolor, humanistic, geometric, military, etc.), then be able to filter them while browsing.

Thanks for listening. Big fan of the software. Just something that would keep me inside your software without having to alt-tab.

Cheers

[loukash]

1 hour ago, CJ Randolph said:

There are automatically-created dropdown categories such as All, Recent, Fixed Width, PDF, etc.

Those are the default collections of the MacOS Font Book app.
You can create your own ones. If you have a Mac, that is.
Collections can be created either in Font Book, or in any app that uses the systemwide Fonts panel, like TextEdit.
The collection presets are stored in /Users/your_user_name/Library/FontCollections

You may need to quit and relaunch Affinity apps to see the new collections.

[E9B6]

I would echo this request. If I want say a script, I have to search through all fonts to find the scripts, because they will not all be recent or favourites etc.

How great to be able to set a folder, and name it "script", then add all the script fonts to it, same for serif, sans serif, design etc etc

Please Serif, place this in the to do list

[walt.farrell]

2 minutes ago, dotHTM said:

Font Book allows for creating universal collections of fonts into categories that goes beyond "favorites" both with manual collections and attribute based Smart Collections. Having to recreate these in Affinity products is frustrating, sloppy, and redundant.

It is my understanding (possibly incorrect, as I'm not a Mac user), that the Affinity applications on macOS already understand/use any FontBook categories you've created.

[prophet]

On 3/16/2021 at 8:13 PM, CJ Randolph said:

There are automatically-created dropdown categories

I don't see this in my Affinity apps (1.9.3) just the usual "All, Recent, Used, Favorites." Is this a preference or extra that needs activating?

[Old Bruce]

1 hour ago, prophet said:

I don't see this in my Affinity apps (1.9.3) just the usual "All, Recent, Used, Favorites." Is this a preference or extra that needs activating?

In the Text Styles' font menus these Font Book Collections will show up. What you are looking at is the Context toolbar's Font menu.  This is a failure on Affinity's part, I don't know why they haven't fixed/implemented this ability.

[loukash]

3 hours ago, dotHTM said:

Affinity apps should natively respect the platform they're on and allow for macOS Font collections.

And that's exactly what they already do:

You may need to relaunch the Affinity app after creating a new collection.

[prophet]

1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

In the Text Styles' font menus

Ah yes, I see it there. A clever perk for those who use Font Book, but could use consistency across all font choice UI