FontAgent 9.6: Ready for Big Sur, Catalina, Adobe CC 2021 and More
FontAgent 9.6 Highlights. Built atop the planet’s most robust font display, search, activation and metadata engines, the latest edition of FontAgent adds a flood of functionality to help you organize, categorize and visualize your fonts using FontAgent’s modern Mac interface that features crisp previews, simple controls and powerful font management. Double type is a free Font generator software. This multi-platform software works on Windows, MAC OS, and Linux. This font creator software creates True Type Font files on your computer. To create a Font, Open DoubleType, go to FileNewGlyph, select a letter for which you want to create the font.
Welcome to the World’s Smartest Font Manager.™ Built atop the planet’s most robust viewing, searching, activation and metadata engines, the latest FontAgent adds macOS 11 Big Sur support, sharable tags, nested sets, faster font rendering and activation, smarter searching and set management, support for Adobe Creative Cloud 2021, Affinity applications, Monotype and Adobe Fonts, and more.
FontAgent 9.6 Highlights
Built atop the planet’s most robust font display, search, activation and metadata engines, the latest edition of FontAgent adds a flood of functionality to help you organize, categorize and visualize your fonts using FontAgent’s modern Mac interface that features crisp previews, simple controls and powerful font management. Activate, deactivate, search, change colors, customize text and resize UI panes in seconds. Here are some highlights:
- Sharable tags for categorizing and organizing your fonts
- macOS 11 Big Sur, 10.15 Catalina and 10.14 Mojave compatibility
- Adobe Creative Cloud auto-activation
- Support for Dark Mode
- All-new, optimized font-rendering engine for faster previews
- Tight integration with Monotype and Adobe Fonts
- Better font cache auto-clearing
- Faster syncing, especially for large font collections
- Speedier, 2x faster font activation
- Auto-activation in Adobe CC 2021 (InDesign, Illustrator, PhotoShop, After Effects, InCopy); Affinity (Photo, Designer, Publisher) and other leading applications
- Expanded, speedy searching of font tags and comments
- Improved managing and syncing of user-entered tags
- Group-by-tag display in the Table View
Build a High-Integrity Font Catalog
Just drag fonts into FontAgent to add them to your font catalog. FontAgent keeps a full history of your imports and uses Insider’s FontDNA™ technology to verify their integrity, fingerprint them and detect duplicates.
Auto-Activation in More Applications
Auto-activate fonts (now in a lot more applications) as you open documents in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and InCopy; Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher; and other popular Mac apps.
New Sharable and Searchable Tags
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Assign keyword tags to fonts and sets to classify them by project, appearance, job numbers, clients… however you want. Create tag-based Smart Sets to preview, compare and activate associated fonts easily. And when you share your fonts with other FontAgent Sync or Server users, you share their tags as well — no extra steps required.
Nested Sets
Back by popular demand, FontAgent supports nested sets so you can organize fonts hierarchically by client, project, foundry or style. Nested sets are sharable, so when you share a parent set with other FontAgent Sync and Server users, FontAgent shares the set definitions as well as the fonts in the parent and all its child subsets.
Tight Monotype and Adobe Cloud Integration
Fonts activated in Monotype and Adobe Fonts appear automatically in FontAgent and work just like all your other fonts. A goldmine of online fonts is at your fingertips… and in your workflow.
Freeform Comments
Enter freeform comments for your fonts and sets to describe the projects, clients, colors, type settings or treatments that make your projects shine. Later, search your comments to find the fonts you need for any of your projects, and use them consistently.
Lightning-Fast Search
Search fonts by name, style, foundry, designer, tags, comments, ratings, and other metadata. Perform complex searches and save their results as Smart Sets that auto-update as you add fonts to your collection.
More Metadata Drives Smarter Searches
Select a font or set and view more property metadata than ever—font formats, styles, metrics, tags, filenames, locations, ratings and comments—everything you need to know about your fonts. Information is power.
FontAgent is compatible with all your favorite creative applications
More Ways to Preview Fonts (faster, too)
Ttf Free Fonts
Preview fonts in waterfalls, planks, slide shows, paragraphs and compare lists. Drag glyphs into your documents. Try the Tile View to see font thumbnails or to compare all the styles in a font family.
Explore Using the Table View
FontAgent’s Table View lets you quickly explore and compare font metadata in a spreadsheet that includes font previews. Click to sort, activate, apply star ratings, or group by family or foundry. It’s that powerful and that simple.
Print and Export Your Fonts
Create hardcopy and PDF font samples for sharing with clients and co-workers. Produce waterfalls, paragraphs, logotype, character sets—whatever you want. Export fonts into organized folder hierarchies for archiving or sending to service bureaus.
Flexible Licensing Choices
Ready to revolutionize your creative workflow? Try the new FontAgent for free for 30 days. When you’re ready to purchase, choose between a traditional stand-alone license, or a cost-effective Sync subscription that enables cloud-based font sharing across users and computers—no server required.
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FontAgent 9.6 runs on macOS 11 Big Sur, 10.15 Catalina, and 10.14 Mojave
How big is your font collection? If you’ve been busy downloading all the free fonts you can find, or if you’ve invested in some premium typefaces chances are you’ve got hundreds (or thousands!) of font files that are bogging down your system. Font managers are important tools that allow you to activate and deactivate your fonts on the fly, organise your collection into groups, and easily test out multiple typefaces at once to find the perfect choice for your designs. I browsed through graphic design forums and messageboards to find out which font managers were recommended by real professionals. This roundup features the most popular programs for both Windows and Mac, including free and premium apps for you to consider.
What do you want from a font manager?
Aside from the basic function of activating and deactivating fonts, are there any other features you might find useful from a font manager? There’s plenty of lightweight and often free choices, but sometimes the premium apps contain some really handy capabilities that can really benefit design professionals. Grouping, labelling, tagging and organsing your fonts helps you pick out the exact style of typeface that you need from your massive library. Previewing multiple fonts at once with custom wording can really speed up your logo designs by allowing you to visually compare different typefaces. Some font managers even come with Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign plugins so any required fonts will be automatically activated when they’re needed. These are important features to consider when weighing up the value of the different programs on offer.
Windows Only Font Managers
NexusFont (Free!)
NexusFont is the most commonly recommended font manager for Windows. It’s simple little freeware application that has all the basic functions of activate & deactivating, sorting and searching your collection.
The Font Thing (Free!)
It was made in 1999, but The Font Thing is a tried and tested piece of freeware that is still in service for many designers. It allows you to install, organise, preview and filter your fonts from a lightweight program.
FontBase (Free!)
FontBase is a new font manager for Windows 7 or higher. Unlike many free programs for Windows, this app has a beautiful interface that makes it easy to live edit, style, preview, search and compare your fonts.
AMP Font Viewer (Free!)
AMP Font Viewer is another free option for Windows users. It has many features for installing and categorising your fonts, including temporary installation of fonts so they remain active until the program is closed.
Mac Only Font Managers
RightFont ($39.95)
RightFont is a relatively new font manager for Mac. It helps you preview, sync, and organise fonts stored in any location without installing them, which is great for users with multiple devices. Fonts can also be filtered by classification, width or weight.
FontAgent Pro ($99)
FontAgent Pro is a classic font manager for Mac. It’s quite pricey, but you know you’re getting a tried and tested piece of software with lots of features. FontAgent Pro also comes with auto-activation plugins for the latest versions of Adobe CC and Quark.
Fontyou (Free!)
Fontyou is a new style of cloud based font manager. Rather than import all your fonts from your hard drive and access them via a traditional utility program, you upload your files to the cloud and manage your collections via the browser.
Font Explorer X 1.2.3 (Free!)
Font Explorer X has been my font manager of choice for many years. Originally this was a free version of Font Explorer X Pro, but it has since been removed from the Font Explorer website. Thankfully this handy free version is still accessible via Softpedia.
The Professional’s Choice (Win & Mac)
Suitcase Fusion ($119.95)
Suitcase is the biggest name in the design industry when it comes to managing fonts. At $120 it’s the most expensive program in this roundup, but it’s compatible with all the Adobe Creative Cloud software, QuarkXPress and even basic desktop appplications.
FontExplorer X Pro ($99)
FontExplorer X Pro is a comprehensive font manager with a wealth of features. It can also connect to FontExplorer X Server, which provides shared font management between entire teams, making it a great solution for teams and agencies.