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Managing fonts? There’s got to be a better way!
I frequently get new fonts for my video projects which can litter my system with tons of fonts that are no longer needed (unless I want to edit old video files). For example I just downloaded 19 Horror font families from my favorite free fonts site 1001freefonts.com for a project which includes 129 discrete fonts including bold, italics, etc., of which I will probably use no more than 5 in the video. I’m trying and really liking the free cross platform font manager FontBase . I can move fonts into categories then enable and disable them as needed, so they are not all active all the time but I don’t have to manually install and uninstall them. I can locate fonts by install date too making grouping existing fonts easy. Applications like word processors and video editors still see a large alphabetically sorted list, rather than a hierarchical tree view, but it’s a huge improvement to be able to enable and disable fonts for projects. I feel like this is another area where modern OS’s have been negligent and are behind expectations of computers in 2025, like file sharing across devices and OS’s (see copyparty ). The post Managing fonts? There’s got to be a better way! first appeared on Workshop88 .