categorize fonts

[le baron]

Hi , 

In affinity, I would like to group fonts by categories, 
for example: free fonts, handwriting fonts, retro fonts. 
Do you know how to do it? Thank you

Edited October 28, 2021 by le baron

[walt.farrell]

You can't do that kind of categorization in the Affinity applications. However, I've read that one of the Mac font managers can create font categories that the Affinity applications will recognize. So if you use a Mac and that font manager you might have a solution. (A Mac user may have more information.)

[thomaso]

Unfortunately Affinity doesn't allow to reflect an existing folder structure of your font folders or of a customized font manager app – excepted the macOS "Fontbook.app" (here the German "Schriftsammlung") mentioned by @walt.farell.

To use its (limited) features within Affinity you would create custom sets in Fontbook first. Then they will automatically appear in the top left fonts menu of the Character Panel.

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[R C-R]

2 hours ago, thomaso said:

To use its (limited) features within Affinity you would create custom sets in Fontbook first. Then they will automatically appear in the top left fonts menu of the Character Panel.

If you do this, avoid naming any of your Font Book categories "Favorites." At least in earlier versions of Affinity, this caused an issue with the categories being off by one & one category not appearing, apparently because that name conflicts with the Affinity "Favorites" group. Anything else is fine, even "Favorites2" or "Favorites_" should be OK. 

[le baron]

thank you guys