I use Suitcase, I’ve noticed it hasn’t been mentioned yet.. Wouldn’t mind chceking out Fontcase shall I convert?

I never liked Font Explorer X because it does not run as smoothly as Suitcase I find. Or maybe I had a faulty Font Explorer. Well anyways I am happy with Suitcase at the moment. I have never tried Fontcase though. It is cheaper than Suitcase it seems..Hmmm how come I didn’t hear about it when I was looking around for Font Management software?....

Actually, FontExplorer X (not pro) sort of sucks for organization. It’s also damn slow, what to do?

What to do is try each one (Suitcase, FontCase, FontExplorer X, FontAgent Pro, even Font Book) for at least a week and see what works for you.

Universal Type Server. I prefer FontExplorer, but managing licenses is more important. 60 users with global distribution, the chance of mistakes and using pirated fonts on a job is too high unless it’s audited.

I used Font Book and some Extensis Suit case.

I use FontExplorer X and find it pretty good. Haven’t tried any of the others mentioned here.

Leszek - Aug 30, 2009 05:41pm

What would be nice is a font management program that uses the information here for organisation. Enabling/browsing your current fonts by tag and classification would be really quite cool.

I heartily agree with this..FontCase supports importing font metadata via XML, (though i’m not exactly sure form this takes..) I wonder if there is a way to export the tagging, foundry, designer, etc. info from here on typedia into an XML file that would work with Fontcase. How sweet would this be?

We are definitely looking into some API stuff (first up, some work with the Flickr folks), but an API for desktop apps may be a long ways off.

“my Fontbook” is web-based font viewer. Typefaces are loading so slow at the first. Even, my browser crushed several times while waiting. If you have so many typefaces, “my Fontbook” is not for you. Also, web-based applications are always making different problems in different operation systems and in different browsers, plus not so useful than desktop app.

Fontcase is very nice application for Mac users and I’m using Fontcase in my Mac computers. But I prefer to using more Suitcase in my business life. Because so minimal, fast and compatible for all operations systems.

After read some of the comment here, I tried both Suitcase and FontExplorer X. And in the end I prefer Suitcase better. It’s simple but has almost everything that I need, especially an integration with the Adobe CS feature. I just need about 10 minutes to understand how it works.

It has two problems though. The first, is that Suitcase lacks a flexibility to display the font. I wish it can have font-picker like interface and ability. The second is a font classification problem-something that also crippling FontExplorer X. It would be faboulus if somehow we can use typedia database to synchronize automatically with fontpicker or another font management program.

I stopped using font classification/organisation programmes since four or five years ago. I created style folders inside my Win Explorer, so finding and installing a particular font is relatively easy.

Suitcase Fusion once messed up Os X Leopard so bad that I didn’t even dare to install it again. Some kind of font conflict, caused by suitcase, bogged down every single app using that font.

So here I am, using FontExplorer X. It works great for me! For now, at least…