I would like to see a feature to better organize fonts. I have several fonts added to my windows directory but in reality most of them don’t see a lot of use. I was wondering if there might be a way to mark fonts as favorites and then be able to filter out just those fonts in the drop down. Also creating custom groups for various types of projects would be helpful. It just becomes tedious going through the list everytime searching for the font, especially if you havent used it in a while or have forgotten the name. Maybe there is something within windows that I’m missing. Anways, this is something I’d like to see addressed in a future release.
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I am not near my pc. Does CC allow you to pick a folder for fonts ? That way you can group in the user defined folders
No, the only folder for fonts which Carbide Create uses is the special folder for directly loading them in the folder for the application preferences and so forth — and those fonts are now sorted with the fonts afforded by the OS.
Even being able to mark favorite fonts, and have them at the front of the complete list would be a huge improvement.
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I like what Michael said. Even being able to pins fonts to the top of the drop down would save a lot of time instead of scrolling through the entire list.
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This would be extremely handy as I have about 600 fonts in my font file and yet only use about 2 on a daily basis (literally 98 out of 100 times).
My approach for this is to set up template text objects and to duplicate them at need when a given font specification is needed again.
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This is the easiest solution I know of for using fonts repeatedly. I have a file set up with the most used fonts (which is not a long list) and save said template to the new project name and use what I want in the workspace. The rest just sit outside the workspace out of harms way.
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These are some great work around options for sure. Thanks for the tips. I’ve also made a template file for specific projects. It would just be nice to be able to organize right within Carbide Create. Just something to think about for a future release.
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If CC would allow you to select a Font folder, that would work.
You would have to copy your favorite Fonts the folder structure for organization.
That seems to be a simple cross platform solution.
Carbide Create does have a fonts folder — but the fonts are inter-mingled with the fonts afforded by the OS.
Maybe a compromise would be a option/checkbox to turn off the cumulative effect.
The additional organization effect if you could create folders under the local CC font folder that you could navigate.
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Or have CC act as is when looking at the “root” CC font folder, but shows the user defined subfolders in the CC font folder.
If the user navigates to one of the subfolders, the cumulative effect is not used
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The template file seems like a good idea, simple. For a large collection of fonts I like to use the program MainType Font Manager. It is a free program that allows you to create labels to tag fonts such as “favorites” or “handwritten”. Fonts can remain in various folders on your harddrive and the program can access the fonts without having to system install them. Then preview the fonts and install the ones you want as not to crowd / overwhelm the font list in carbide create. Fonts can be installed and uninstalled within MainType. There are a lot of features.
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Thanks Keith. I’ll have to check this program out.
There are a number of decent, third party font managers for Windows available. Here is one of them:
I’m not a big user of graphics design software. Are there other design programs that incorporate a font manager that we can take a look at?
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I just checked Inkscape which works the same as CC. Here is a Google summary.
In short font “collections” are the goal.
It does reference Fonty Python and MainType for external managers. I have no idea how that could be integrated. That’s why I leaned on the CC font sub folder solution.
I see there are Font managers available for integration
Thanks for looking !
Inkscape primarily uses fonts installed on your operating system; it doesn’t have its own built-in font manager. To manage fonts for use in Inkscape, you need to manage them within your operating system’s font settings or use a separate font manager that can integrate with your OS.
Here’s a breakdown of how to manage fonts for Inkscape:
- Font Installation and Management:
Install desired fonts through your operating system’s font management tools (e.g., Font Book on macOS, or the Fonts folder in Windows settings).
Inkscape relies on the fonts available to your operating system. Install or manage fonts using your OS’s font manager.
For Windows, you can use commands like mklink /D to create symbolic links to font folders, effectively making those fonts available to Inkscape without full installation.
Consider using a font manager like Fonty Python or MainType to organize fonts into collections for easier management and switching between projects.
MS Word doesn’t have ‘favorites’ as such, but it does float recently used fonts to the top:
EDIT - This is Word 2010 (because it works for me!). Apparently newer versions do have ‘Favorites’ now (except they are called ‘Pinned’), and the ‘Theme’ fonts are combined with the ‘Recently Used’.
I would argue that “Theme Fonts” ~= Favorites insofar as they are the fonts in the theme which the user has selected for the current document.
What i did since i have thousands of fonts, create a folder fonts alt. Move all fonts in that except the basic os fonts. Then as you look through the fonts you want move into the default folder. Use a font viewer to easily scroll through your font alt folder.
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