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Fonts 401: Additional Font Resources

Written on March 19, 2009 by Weldon Dodd and 2 people have commented

There were a few additional resources that did not fit in our rundown on font management applications. So continuing our Font School series, here are a few additional apps and articles on fonts.
Some Reading

Best Practices for Managing Fonts in Mac OS X – 5th Edition — This free PDF from Extensis is a great place [...]

Fonts 301: Managing Fonts and Font Problems

Written on March 18, 2009 by Weldon Dodd and 5 people have commented

Who needs font management? If you have ever installed additional fonts on your Mac, then you do.
Because of the Mac’s wide adoption in the desktop publishing and design world, managing fonts in OS X has long been an important, if unpleasant, task. The Apple tools have always been meager, but Leopard has made important improvements [...]

Fonts 201: Font Management Apps for the Mac

Written on March 17, 2009 by Weldon Dodd and 22 people have commented

If you are a designer, then you know the joy of having thousands and thousands of fonts available to use in your projects. You probably are also familiar with the despair of waiting for apps to launch, font menus to draw, and the horror of kernel panics when you get Font ID conflicts, the stray [...]

Fonts 101: A Font Primer

Written on March 16, 2009 by Weldon Dodd and 10 people have commented

Over the next few days, I will be covering everything from font management apps to how to deal with font problems. By the end of the week you’ll hopefully have a solid handle on how to manage and troubleshoot fonts on your Mac. We’ll begin this series by taking a look at the history of [...]