![]() Best in class and an easy recommendation for me. Features are clearly labelled and intuitive, the detailed previews are both beautiful and functional. Choose File > Export, choose where to save the font files, then click Open. In the Font Book app on your Mac, select one or more fonts to export. Makes other font management apps look dated and tired. Note: Before you export a font, check the font’s licence agreement click a font’s Info button in the toolbar, then click Usage to view the licence information. It’s actually made me a lot more experimental and diverse with my font choices.Typeface’s UI is clear, slick and easy on the eye. ![]() This means that you don’t end up with a menu full of activated fonts that you don’t need when you’re experimenting with a layout. Typeface makes this possible.Secondly, and this is big, is the ability to apply fonts without activating them, simply by drag and dropping the font into your layout. I store my fonts on a cloud folder so they’re all accessible from whichever computer I’m using. Typeface doesn’t take your fonts and create its own database - it leaves your folders alone and just links to them. On Mac OS X, such fonts look like normal files in Finder, but from tools like ls (and anything else that uses the POSIX layer) these look like zero byte files. Two aspects of Typeface that strongly appealed to me are its non-intrusive way of handling your fonts, meaning that you can organise and structure your fonts folder however you wish - I do mine by style and by client/project. For some Mac fonts, the font information is stored entirely in the resource fork of the file. Best in class As part of my switch to M1, I decided to rethink my approach to font management.
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