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Dave Girard publishes a comparative review of Mac OS X font managers in Ars Technica. He discusses Insider FontAgent Pro 3.3.0, Linotype FontExplorer 1.1, and Extensis Suitcase Fusion 12.1.3, and dismisses Apple's Font Book right away (doesn't let you deal with fonts outside of the system's established font folders; preview only one font at a time; slow for finding new fonts; no auto-activation). For big library organization, Suitcase Fusion is the only one that does it right (FontExplorer X's centralized library is just all your fonts dropped into an alphabetical folder scheme of dubious value). For dealing with corrupt or incomplete fonts, FontExplorer X wins (the others would not handle or repair corrupt font files). For auto-activation of fonts in applications such as InDesign, or system-wide auto-activation, FontExplorer X was simply horrible. As for interface and font previewing, and searching and filtering, or extra features on the other hand, FontExplorer X wins hands down. His conclusions:

1. This part of the their software piggybacks off of Font Book, Mac’s free font management software. The big-picture means that all— yes all —of your fonts need to be installed on your system. Additionally, when you deactivate one of these installed fonts, it disappears into oblivion and can’t be reactivated later.
2. Download Font Manager 1.0.5 for Mac from our website for free. Our built-in antivirus scanned this Mac download and rated it as virus free. This free Mac application was originally developed by Karel Petrovic. Font Manager for Mac lies within System Tools, more precisely Fonts.

Mac Font Manager Deluxe – Only $19.99. Easily preview and manage your font collections with Font Manager Deluxe! Preview Fonts in a grid or custom view, add and remove font collections, install and uninstall with a simple click, save your favorites, and download the current Google Fonts collection to add to the app. Includes 4 new commercial use OpenType font families. If you do not want to install third-party software to manage your fonts in Mac, you can opt for the inbuilt tool called Font Book. Font Book is one of the best, minimal, handy tool to manage your fonts. It doesn’t matter whether you want to take care of the preset fonts or third-party fonts, you can do that with the help of Font Book.

• FontAgent Pro 3.3: It is very reliable, and it's the most stable font manager in my experience. Still, the lack of accuracy for auto-activation of PostScript and OpenType fonts and the fact that it can't activate fonts off of removable media (forcing you to copy them) means it's not perfect. Still, it is a very good app and the best option for service bureaus. If its interface were improved and its searching/filtering options were more powerful, I'd say it was an easy nine or ten but these are relatively minor criticisms for this font management workhorse.
• FontExplorer X 1.1 (free): The interface of FontExplorer X is really great and, for what I think is the first time, it gives fonts an environment where they shine like the little works of art that they are. FontExplorer isn't stable or reliable enough with its auto-activation to unflinchingly recommend it for professional designers--yet. Since it lacks any server option, it's strictly aimed at single users and with the current crop of bugs in FontExplorer 1.1, it's not for everyone who deals with font management.
• Suitcase Fusion 12.1.3: I had left Suitcase X for dead a couple versions ago since it was slow, plagued with stability issues and the slow-to-come updates rarely resolved any of the major issues that the program suffered from. To stay competitive, Suitcase Fusion needs to improve speed across the board. It is inexcusable for a program at version 12 to misdiagnose fonts as corrupt.

Welcome to the World’s Smartest Font Manager.™ Built atop the planet’s most robust viewing, searching, activation and metadata engines, the latest FontAgent adds macOS 11 Big Sur support, sharable tags, nested sets, faster font rendering and activation, smarter searching and set management, support for Adobe Creative Cloud 2021, Affinity applications, Monotype and Adobe Fonts, and more.

FontAgent 9.6 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. Activate, deactivate, search, change colors, customize text and resize UI panes in seconds. Here are some highlights:

• Sharable tags for categorizing and organizing your fonts
• macOS 11 Big Sur, 10.15 Catalina and 10.14 Mojave compatibility
• Adobe Creative Cloud auto-activation
• Support for Dark Mode
• All-new, optimized font-rendering engine for faster previews
• Tight integration with Monotype and Adobe Fonts
• Better font cache auto-clearing
• Faster syncing, especially for large font collections

• Speedier, 2x faster font activation
• Auto-activation in Adobe CC 2021 (InDesign, Illustrator, PhotoShop, After Effects, InCopy); Affinity (Photo, Designer, Publisher) and other leading applications
• Expanded, speedy searching of font tags and comments
• Improved managing and syncing of user-entered tags
• Group-by-tag display in the Table View

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Build a High-Integrity Font Catalog

Just drag fonts into FontAgent to add them to your font catalog. FontAgent keeps a full history of your imports and uses Insider’s FontDNA™ technology to verify their integrity, fingerprint them and detect duplicates.

Auto-Activation in More Applications

Auto-activate fonts (now in a lot more applications) as you open documents in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and InCopy; Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher; and other popular Mac apps.

New Sharable and Searchable Tags

Assign keyword tags to fonts and sets to classify them by project, appearance, job numbers, clients… however you want. Create tag-based Smart Sets to preview, compare and activate associated fonts easily. And when you share your fonts with other FontAgent Sync or Server users, you share their tags as well — no extra steps required.

Nested Sets

Back by popular demand, FontAgent supports nested sets so you can organize fonts hierarchically by client, project, foundry or style. Nested sets are sharable, so when you share a parent set with other FontAgent Sync and Server users, FontAgent shares the set definitions as well as the fonts in the parent and all its child subsets.

Tight Monotype and Adobe Cloud Integration

Fonts activated in Monotype and Adobe Fonts appear automatically in FontAgent and work just like all your other fonts. A goldmine of online fonts is at your fingertips… and in your workflow.

Freeform Comments

Enter freeform comments for your fonts and sets to describe the projects, clients, colors, type settings or treatments that make your projects shine. Later, search your comments to find the fonts you need for any of your projects, and use them consistently.

Lightning-Fast Search

Search fonts by name, style, foundry, designer, tags, comments, ratings, and other metadata. Perform complex searches and save their results as Smart Sets that auto-update as you add fonts to your collection.

More Metadata Drives Smarter Searches

Select a font or set and view more property metadata than ever—font formats, styles, metrics, tags, filenames, locations, ratings and comments—everything you need to know about your fonts. Information is power.

FontAgent is compatible with all your favorite creative applications

More Ways to Preview Fonts (faster, too)

Preview fonts in waterfalls, planks, slide shows, paragraphs and compare lists. Drag glyphs into your documents. Try the Tile View to see font thumbnails or to compare all the styles in a font family.

Explore Using the Table View

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FontAgent’s Table View lets you quickly explore and compare font metadata in a spreadsheet that includes font previews. Click to sort, activate, apply star ratings, or group by family or foundry. It’s that powerful and that simple.

Print and Export Your Fonts

Create hardcopy and PDF font samples for sharing with clients and co-workers. Produce waterfalls, paragraphs, logotype, character sets—whatever you want. Export fonts into organized folder hierarchies for archiving or sending to service bureaus.

Flexible Licensing Choices

Free Font Manager Software

Ready to revolutionize your creative workflow? Try the new FontAgent for free for 30 days. When you’re ready to purchase, choose between a traditional stand-alone license, or a cost-effective Sync subscription that enables cloud-based font sharing across users and computers—no server required.
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FontAgent 9.6 runs on macOS 11 Big Sur, 10.15 Catalina, and 10.14 Mojave