Our Collection of Font Management Tips

Font Management: Understanding Mac OS X Font Folders.

This two-minute video clip comes from this CreativeTechs’ January 8, 2009 workshop Font Management for Designers in Mac OS X.

A lot of designers feel powerless when it comes to managing their fonts inMac OS X because they see all these font folders spread throughout their computer. Since they don’t understand the folder structure, and there are so many fonts in so many different places most designers feel nervous about removing fonts. Read the Full Tip »

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Font Management: Font Management 2009 Best Practices.

This two-minute video clip comes from this week’s CreativeTechs’ January 8, 2009 workshop: Font Management for Designers in Mac OS X.

This short video lays out the a description of the best practices for font management in 2009. Read the Full Tip »

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Font Management: The Problem with Long Font Menus.

This two-minute video clip comes from this week’s CreativeTechs’ January 8, 2009 workshop: Font Management for Designers in Mac OS X.

Why do designers need to manage fonts anyway? Here is a nice visual example. This video shows the default font menu from InDesign before we’ve done any font management at all. A lot of designers have forgotten that they can have a short font menu. You should be in control of that choice, you shouldn’t be having a bunch of fonts in your menus just because they happen to be pre-installed by a bunch of applications. Read the Full Tip »

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