Organizing your Fonts (font book)

[Blue Bell]

I am not too familiar with Font Book. I basically just load them in and not don't bother to organize. But I am getting an increasing amount of fonts and would like to organize them. I see that you can make collections but does that show up in PS? Or do you FontBook users just switch back and forth between FontBook and your program?

 

[suezeeq12]

Hi! If you organize your fonts into collections, they are not linked to PS. They still show up in PS in alphabetical order. I think that is what you were asking. If not, ask again and I'll come back

I use Font ExplorerX and it has a WYSIWYG window in it so that is the way I choose which font I want to use. I pick the one I want to use and then go into PS and find it in the alphabetical list and choose it that way.

 

[petey111]

I do what Suzie and you both say. Find what I want in Font Book and then look alphabetical in PS.

 

[Bush Girl]

Me too, although in all honesty, despite having hundreds of fonts loaded, I routinely only use about 10 of them!

 

[Blue Bell]

Thanks for your answers. I was thinking that maybe they woul dbe organized in PS - but I have done some organizing in Font Book and it didn't show in PS. I wasn't sure if I was doing something wrong.

I guess I will just have to use Font Book more. I do like that PS has the little preview but sometimes it just doesn't do a font justice.

 

[clarabear]

I have had the same question. I saw that font book shows the sorting in Word and Excel and was very bummed it doesn't show in PSE. I am lazy and don't mess with the font book stuff since I was so bummed about it not correlating with PSE. I guess I might try it though.

Suzy/Sara - What does font explorer do that font book doesn't?

 

[petey111]

You can type in the actual text that you are going to use and see it in that font. Like a preview. More than just the alphabet in that font. That's the biggest benefit to those products.

 

[suezeeq12]

In Font Xplorer I can select the fonts I want and see exactly how they will look-see the screen shot to see what I mean. I highlight the fonts I want to see and the window shows them all on there which, for me makes a difference because I want to compare them all at the same time, not look at one then another. I love this about the program. I just found out another way to see the font on the layout but to me it still isn't as good as this is - I'll explain that in another post but here is the screen shot:

 

[Blue Bell]

Oh. That is really cool Suzy. I love that you compare the exact text but with different fonts. Is Font xplorer free? I am definitely going to look into this.

 

[ninigoesdigi]

I love Font Explorer too and it's free!

 

[clarabear]

So...in Font Book does it not show things typed out? Is this why font explorer is cool?

 

[petey111]

Yes Clara. In Font Book, you only see the alphabet and characters.

I thought Font Explorer was only PC though...Suzie are you using it in dual boot?