- Organizing them like your music collection is mission critical. Here are a few tips for managing your font library. Organize Your Fonts by Style. I typically use names for my collections that make sense to me, like ‘Elegant', ‘Weathered', and ‘Tall & Skinny'. Based on the designs I frequently create, I manage fonts into collections.
- You can drag fonts from the Font window into this collection. Another way to organize fonts is to create a Smart Collection. A Smart Collection will automatically organize fonts based on searches. For example, if you want to see all of the italic fonts installed on your Mac, create a Smart Collection that searches for the Style Name italic.
- FontAgent 9.5 Highlights. Built atop the planet's most robust font display, search, activation and metadata engines, the latest edition of FontAgent adds a flood of functionality to help you organize, categorize and visualize your fonts using FontAgent's modern Mac interface that features crisp previews, simple controls and powerful font management.
- Double click on the font name and a preview of the font will open on the Desktop. The preview window will show you what the font looks like. From here, you can click on the Install Font button to add it to Font Book. Once you add it to Font Book the font becomes available to other applications on your system.
Intended for professionals, FontExplorer Pro X is a Mac font manager that's optimised for Retina Displays and supports Dark Mode. It's the complete font management tool with font organisation by sets, and the automatic enabling and disabling of fonts in order to preserve system resources.
Font Book User Guide
How To Manage Fonts On Mac
Font Book User Guide
How To Manage Fonts On Mac
You can restore the fonts that were originally included with your Mac. This may be useful if you're having issues with Font Book. Restoring the standard fonts moves any fonts you've installed into a separate folder, which makes them unavailable to use in apps.
How To Install Fonts On A Mac
In the Font Book app on your Mac, choose File > Restore Standard Fonts.
Any fonts you've installed are placed in /Library/Fonts (Removed) or in ~/Library/Fonts (Removed). To install those fonts again, just reinstall them.
