In more recent years, the German firm Linotype, a division of Monotype, has added the very notable FontExplorer X Pro to the field.įontExplorer X Pro has always been an excellent program with a nice set of features. Since the early days of desktop publishing, there has been software to to help designers manage this load – most notably, Suitcase, which is quite good. The font handling tools on both operating systems are rudimentary at best. To be fair, neither the Mac OS X nor Windows platforms make this job any easier. That’s not counting the myriad of duplications, incomplete sets, and corrupt sets with which one has to contend. Years of design software updates, free font internet sites, purchases, and let’s not forget those “borrowed” fonts, have left most professional graphic artists and design enthusiasts with an unwieldy collection of type that’s difficult to control. To be completely honest, with very few exceptions (you know who you are), most graphic designers do an absolutely abysmal job of font management.
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