Foundry/Font library vs collection
Adam Ladd
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Curious, what do you tend to call all the fonts available from your foundry: Library? Collection?
I know font managers like Font Book have designations and purposes for both, but even to the consumer, I wonder which seems more relatable or easy to understand.
I tend to lean towards saying something like "My library is now available at x." Meaning the library includes everything. And I think of a collection as being a select offering of fonts/families within the library.
Am I overlooking something?
I know font managers like Font Book have designations and purposes for both, but even to the consumer, I wonder which seems more relatable or easy to understand.
I tend to lean towards saying something like "My library is now available at x." Meaning the library includes everything. And I think of a collection as being a select offering of fonts/families within the library.
Am I overlooking something?
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"My library is now available at x." -> "All our fonts are now available at"
Simple is always better1 -
I don't see it used, but to me "catalog" might be a fitting name for the list of fonts on offer from a foundry. I do see "library" and that perhaps benefits from association with publishers.
I agree that I'd reserve "collection" for a thematic subset of types.3 -
I use a small free program to organize the fonts by foundry or by designer.
This program was distribuited a long time ago in alt.binaries.fonts.
It works very well!
I hope it helps someone.0 -
Even if the program is free, it would be much better (and safer) to provide a link to the developer's site rather than posting the binary here.4
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Even if the program is free, it would be much better (and safer) to provide a link to the developer's site rather than posting the binary here.
Especially since it came from a notorious Newsgroup.
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I know alt.binaries.fonts is dark internet but I have been using this específic program for many years with no problems.
This app does not do anything wrong, only organizes fonts in directories.
There was a site, fontorg.us, but this site is down.0
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