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FontBase 2.0 — Update for the super fast, beautiful and free font manager
FontBase is a lightning fast, beautiful and free font manager for designers. FontBase gives you all the stability, speed and reliability of a paid font manager, but free and on all platforms!
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@sarperdag Only the system fonts are discovered automatically, it's intentional. You need to add your folders with fonts manually by drag-n-dropping them.
@sarperdag You were waiting for it to search all your files on the desktop and find all the fonts?
@dominiklevitsky what's more, I drag & drop fonts in the app and still they don't appear anywhere... Am I doing something wrong?
Nice - I've been looking for a Linotype replacement ever since it fried years of collections files.
Suggestion: Need some kind of onboarding guide (or a few simple prompts) for those transitioning from other font managers. (Example: "Fontbase will only show system fonts by default. To manage your other fonts in Fontbase, simply drag-and-drop their folders into Fontbase's window to import them. This won't move the original font files; it'll only create a copy.")
@tomcharde That's a great suggestion. We definitely need some onboarding. It just wasn't our priority.
Crashes constantly. Doesn't seem to provide duplicate detection. Doesn't allow you to add a font to a collection and the library at the same time. Doesn't detect system fonts. Activating a font takes a very long time. Fonts take a long time to preview. Search is slow.
My fan started going crazy, and doesn't appear to be retina ready. The UI is blurry (for me)
Hi all!
We have just released a big update for our free font manager.
We have completely rewritten the core engine from the ground up. Now FontBase works much faster and stable and it also supports Mac and Linux! Some of the updates include:
- Font activation
- Nested folders support
- Improved collections management
- Automatic sync
- Huge performance improvements
- Updated UI
- Updated website
You can read about all the changes here: http://fontba.se/updates
I will be glad to answer any questions you have!
@kirstyatx Sorry for that. Seems to be a bug. W'll try to fix that as soon as possible!
@dominiklevitsky WTF, I didn't know about this app. It's so beautiful and the UX is absolutely great. Downloaded, installed, bookmarked, shared 👍 Thank you! BTW... Just diving into Electron.
@dominiklevitsky I just wanted to say that you did a great job with this app! It's exactly the simple font-manager I've been looking for. I know there are more features to add and kinks to work out, but this is already a great piece of software and I look forward to seeing where you take it in the future! Way to go!
On Win 10 -at least on my PC- scale seems quite wrong. I mean the app itself looks very small comparing everything, I need a magnifier to work.
Alphabetical sort would be nice
I've a fonts folder that I've not installed to system yet, it'd be nice to see certain folders, not just system fonts.
@kiwison You need to add the folders to the app manually. It looks automatically only for system fonts.
We are working on the resolution fix for Windows and also on the sorting. The update will be out next week.
1. What's font activation? How does it work?
2. Can you even share fonts with other designers in teams?
@looksawesome Font activation means, you can make a font available to all your apps, without installing it. And when, you close FontBase, it is de-activated. And when you open FontBase again, it is activated, again.
You can put your fonts in a Dropbox folder, for example. And then add that folder to FontBase. You can share this way.
All the issues I've found so far:
1. Only system fonts appear in the app, not the fonts I installed.
2. In previous versions, all opentype features could be modified. Why have you changed that?
3. For some reason, I cannot drag-n-drop fonts inside collections.
4. The app looks horrible in retina displays.
Features I'd like to see:
1. Fonts ordered alphabetically.
2. The font weight next to font's name (e.g. Helvetica - Bold)
3. Google Fonts and/or Typekit sync.
Other than that, really great product 😍 Looking forward to new updates.
@desinil Hey, some of the features are still missing in this version, because we need a bit more time to implement them with our new engine. The retina problem is now also a known issue, we are going to fix that as soon as possible.
Regarding the drag-n-drop: you need to select the fonts by holding Shift and clicking on them. This is not obvious enough, I agree :(
Thank you for your feedback!
Some kind of categorisation by say serif/sans-serif/display etc would be great! Otherwise this is exactly what I've been waiting for! Thank you!
I recommended this today to a client. We both experimented with it and liked it a lot.
Pros:Free. Syncs to Google fonts smoothly. Nice interface. Recognizes OTF, TTF, and web fonts. Very easy to install.
Cons:Doesn't recognize PostScript and old True Type formats.
Hi, I have installed on windows, and its a great product, using it very frequently. But it is too much buggy at this point. Fonts preview won't work at most times. Uploading and syncing font is just a blindshot. surely a must have product for designers if all these issues are ironed out.
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