5 Great Mac Font Management Tools To Love Or Hate

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 | Mac Reviews | Read or Post a Comment

Fonts 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.... (excerpted).

3 Reader Comments

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.

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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