Font Organization (Help?)
I have an idea for a flyer for the con which is based around a particular font.* I remember the font quite clearly and am quite sure I have it, but an exhaustive (and exhausting) search of my font files failed to turn it up.
So, I went hunting for it on the internet.
I should not be allowed near font sites without adult supervision. ;-)
Despite trying to limit myself to fonts I might actually have a use for, and already having quite a few of the ones on the site I was using, I managed to download over a thousand font files. No, that is not a typo. There may be a few duplicates, but not enough to significantly change that number. But they were all so cool, and having a halfway-decent internet connection means it was actually faster to download anything I found attractive than to sit there debating whether I should download it or not, and....
This brings me to the quandary I always reach when I do this, which is that I need some way to organize or catalog the fonts I have. I'm shoving some of them into sub-directories, such as "people fonts" or "food & kitchen" or "tentacles" (yes, there were enough of those to justify a category for them), but this is a temporary measure at best, and it doesn't address the fonts that are more standard lettering. And at over a thousand fonts (and that's just this download batch, that's not counting the... many... I already had), it's not practical nor even sane to try browsing through them all every time I need something.
Anybody got any good suggestions for font management? I've never had much luck with programs that claim to organize things for you (photo management, I'm looking at you), but I clearly need something. It needs to be something that will work with the way my brain thinks of fonts, so I can look up all "handwriting" fonts, but I can also look up all fonts that are "swoopy" or "fast" or "made out of things". Possibly learning more about typesetting terminology would give me some more descriptors, but I suspect there's still a significant idiosyncrasy factor here, not to mention the sheer workload.
I dearly want to build my own database of fonts, with filenames and samples and license conditions and multiple keywords for each one, but the amount of time involved in such an undertaking... well, let's just say it's been on my list of things to do for at least two decades, and leave it at that. ;-)
*The font in question is an outline font with the letters formed by human figures, looking rather like they're doing yoga. It is not Human Capital by Kosuke Tatsumi, though that is the closest I've been able to find.
This entry was originally posted at https://lizvogel.dreamwidth.org/200600.html because I got tired of dealing with whatever LiveJournal had broken this time. Comment whereever.
So, I went hunting for it on the internet.
I should not be allowed near font sites without adult supervision. ;-)
Despite trying to limit myself to fonts I might actually have a use for, and already having quite a few of the ones on the site I was using, I managed to download over a thousand font files. No, that is not a typo. There may be a few duplicates, but not enough to significantly change that number. But they were all so cool, and having a halfway-decent internet connection means it was actually faster to download anything I found attractive than to sit there debating whether I should download it or not, and....
This brings me to the quandary I always reach when I do this, which is that I need some way to organize or catalog the fonts I have. I'm shoving some of them into sub-directories, such as "people fonts" or "food & kitchen" or "tentacles" (yes, there were enough of those to justify a category for them), but this is a temporary measure at best, and it doesn't address the fonts that are more standard lettering. And at over a thousand fonts (and that's just this download batch, that's not counting the... many... I already had), it's not practical nor even sane to try browsing through them all every time I need something.
Anybody got any good suggestions for font management? I've never had much luck with programs that claim to organize things for you (photo management, I'm looking at you), but I clearly need something. It needs to be something that will work with the way my brain thinks of fonts, so I can look up all "handwriting" fonts, but I can also look up all fonts that are "swoopy" or "fast" or "made out of things". Possibly learning more about typesetting terminology would give me some more descriptors, but I suspect there's still a significant idiosyncrasy factor here, not to mention the sheer workload.
I dearly want to build my own database of fonts, with filenames and samples and license conditions and multiple keywords for each one, but the amount of time involved in such an undertaking... well, let's just say it's been on my list of things to do for at least two decades, and leave it at that. ;-)
*The font in question is an outline font with the letters formed by human figures, looking rather like they're doing yoga. It is not Human Capital by Kosuke Tatsumi, though that is the closest I've been able to find.
This entry was originally posted at https://lizvogel.dreamwidth.org/200600.html because I got tired of dealing with whatever LiveJournal had broken this time. Comment whereever.