tanias_reign Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 One thing that always bothered me about the adobe suite was the lack of options for organizing typography so I had to look through lots of fonts to find the one I was looking for if I didn't remember the name of it off the to of my head. It would be awesome if fonts could be organized into folders of my choice so that I could put decorative fonts in one folder, favorite fonts in another, sans serif, serif etc... Having an organized font system would improve my workflow immensely as a graphic designer. As it is now with illustrator picking fonts is a nightmare. (All this would be in the font drop down.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 We already support Font Book's font categories, on the Character Tab and Edit Text Style panel. We don't have the category control on the text context toolbar for space reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 You can also invest in a pro-level font manager like Linotype's FontExplorer which is great. There are others as well. Most give u much better previewing abilities than apples FontBook Quote 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Ventura 13.6 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Rightfont has built in type categories which mostly seem to work ok. Unfortunately RF routinely refuses to import some fonts. :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarkalo Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Just an idea - but wondering if it's something of interest to others: Now that 1.6 Beta has Used/Favorite font categories - which I love - it would be great to have the ability to organize by user-created categories. For instance, I would organize into Headline, Body, Distressed, Geometric, Grotesk, Typewriter etc. I know that Font Book has categories but the problem is that it doesn't pick up fonts that I installed under RightFont, and it certainly doesn't pick up rented fonts under Typekit or Skyfonts. But I care about these font categories really in Affinity Designer, or Photo (but more so Designer) and for sure the upcoming Publisher. The idea is that once they are installed, however you installed them, then they are ready for use in Designer, so that should be the program to handle this. Alternatively, RightFont can also do this but they don't have Skyfonts integrated yet. tanias_reign and davemac2015 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 53 minutes ago, abarkalo said: Now that 1.6 Beta has Used/Favorite font categories - which I love - it would be great to have the ability to organize by user-created categories. For instance, I would organize into Headline, Body, Distressed, Geometric, Grotesk, Typewriter etc. I think that is what the OP was asking for a year ago. I would like to see this too. tanias_reign, davemac2015 and abarkalo 3 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmFitzz Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 Reviving a long dead thread but now there's publisher as well this seems like an increasingly valuable feature Alfred and tanias_reign 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 On 11/24/2020 at 4:47 PM, EmFitzz said: Reviving a long dead thread Time for another ‘bump’, methinks! Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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