5 Great Mac Font Management Tools To Love Or Hate
I love fonts. Classic fonts. Cool fonts. Esoteric fonts. Crazy fonts. As a very long time Mac user (don’t let the smile fool you; it hides the wrinkles) I collect fonts; thousands of fonts.
How do I manage my fonts on my Macs? Easier said than done, but five Mac font management tools make it easier. No, I don’t use all five at once. I have a favorite.
There are three places to find fonts on your Mac. Your Mac hard drive’s System/Library/Fonts folder. You need those fonts to make the Mac work so don’t muck around in.... (excerpted).
3 Reader Comments
Jeffrey said:
Thank you very much Alexis,
Question for you:
What are the mandatory fonts needed in the System/Library/Fonts folder? It seems I have “mucked around” in there and caused a few issues throughout my OS. Thank you very much.
-Jeff
Jared B. said:
Thanks Alexis, I will have to try one of those font applications out. I will have to go ask my wife if I can have my money and credit cards back first so I can buy a font program.
I just looked at “font explorers” web page, looks interesting. I plan on starting a new Iweb very soon. I lost my life the other day and was reincarnated back due to something called marriage.
If I remember right, Apple invented the font and Microsoft stole the font. I have to bash Microsoft everywhere I go sorry.
Great article, now if I can only think of how I am going to get my money back, I will buy “font explorer”. 
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frannie said:
There’s a list of the fonts somewhere on Apple’s Support site. I know ‘cause I’ve screwed up my system fonts, too. If you’re going to mess with fonts I found it’s better to mess with the fonts in the user/Library/Fonts, rather than the system fonts.