Once you’ve found the winning specimen(s), install or move them to Purchase and Install. You can set up a folder like the one below, or come up with your own system. Move them from the Download folder to the Try Out folder - or an area where you can srtore them specifically for try-out periods. You or your employer could get in some hot water.Īre you the type who downloads fonts indiscriminately, in order to see the font in its actual environment? You would do well to create a Temporary Fonts folder as a sort of staging area for downloaded fonts. Just use the golden rule and don’t just trash that “README” file. I encourage you to read some pieces on the process, here, here, and here. Font designers are designers, just like you, and they do this work for a living. *Always honor licensing and usage rules for fonts, be they purchased or free. In addition, scrolling through hundreds of fonts you never use, in search of the perfect one for a job, is just a time-waster. Managing the active fonts also saves your apps a lot of time and work loading, previewing, and activating them. Chances are, it’s loading all the active fonts in your system. Why would we want to do all this work to keep fonts organized? Besides the inherent benefits of organization? If you’ve ever noticed that when you start Photoshop or Illustrator an app takes a while to start up, see which process it hangs on. It doesn’t have to be like this, and starting out in an organized way will save you hours and hours of clean-up later. If you’re new, let’s start off on the right foot. Then one day we realize something: in every project, we have to scroll through a thousand names in the font menu to either find one that works in our compositions or to find a name we know and swear is here somewhere. Be it from school, jobs, freelance work - they just have a way of landing on our computers in some buried folder we don’t have to worry about. We designers tend to accumulate fonts as we travel down our career paths. These 5 tips will help you organize your fonts to maintain your sanity, speed up your tasks, and stop scrolling past fonts you never use.
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