Font Organization

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Not sure I am in the correct forum, but figured I'd give it shout with this question.

I am wondering how others organize their fonts. I am using Publisher on Windows 10. I know there is font manager software out there, but what all are you using? I would love to go to my fonts tool, click the down arrow and find folders such Script or Serif Only, or however I name them or even list them by style and then alphabetical, what ever works best. 

Appreciate your responses in advance!!

[DWright]

You can mark the fonts you use the most as a favourite then when you select the font family box select the Favourite sort option to only show these fonts 

 

[PixelPest]

I have a similar question. MacOS BigSur comes with an unbelievable number of variants of NotoSans fonts that I will never need or use, but have to scroll through about 100 entries each time. How can I exclude them? This is driving me crazy. Shall I disable them with FontBook? Messing with System Fonts was never a good idea on macOS. Any hints are more than welcome.
 

[h_d]

3 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

MacOS BigSur comes with an unbelievable number of variants of NotoSans fonts that I will never need or use, but have to scroll through about 100 entries each time. How can I exclude them? This is driving me crazy.

Likewise.

Until I used FontBook to create Collections. These aren't accessible through the Font menu in the Context Toolbar, but they are in the Font pull-down in the Character Panel in Studio.

For example I created a FontBook Collection called "Purchased", dragged my own fonts into it, and now they're easily available in the Character Panel. Publisher shown here, but it works for Photo and Designer too:

 

 (He who dies with the most fonts wins. I'm losing badly. 😉)

 

[PixelPest]

Thanks for the suggestion - will try. (me - font collector for more than 3 decades buried under pyramids of glyphs) 

[PixelPest]

Weired: FontBook just listed 40 NotoSans Variants while another Vector editor didn´t list any of them (runs localised) and Affinity.apps are confronting me with one hundred NotoSans families and some has up to 9 variants - I start to think Apple messed up something when delivered the M1 Macs. This can´t be right.

Aunt Edith says: What already helped but just in Character Tab is set it to the language you´re using; all foreign support fonts are not displayed - what a relief. I like to have that in the font chooser though and not to have the Character Tab opened.

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2 hours ago, PixelPest said:

I start to think Apple messed up something when delivered the M1 Macs

Same on Intel, you're by no means the first to complain. Aunt Edith's idea is a good one though. 

2 hours ago, PixelPest said:

I like to have that in the font chooser though and not to have the Character Tab opened.

Me too.

[Alfred]

3 hours ago, h_d said:

(He who dies with the most fonts wins. I'm losing badly. 😉)

You need to be well into six figures to appear on the leaderboard. And before you ask, I’m nowhere near that: I’m in the low five figures and likely to remain so.

[Old Bruce]

I only get into four figures because of the fonts that came with my copy of Canvas by Deneba(?). I think I have only ever used ... probably none of them.