If you have more than a few hundred fonts installed you may benefit from using a font manager. Tagged fonts can also be saved as a new view by clicking the eye icon on the Tag Search Panel. To release the advanced features, upgrade to the Standard or Professional Edition. Then, select the older version s and press delete. Deleting a group does not delete the fonts it contains.
Unlike simple font preview applications, MainType is designed for graphic artists, typographers, and other power users who demand high-end functionality such as network support, plug-ins, advanced categorizing, searching capabilities, and fast searches for the fonts that you need. Do not search for your desired font. Properties: Whether it is installed or loaded, version number, created and modified dates. Font Catalogues The Export Font Information wizard offers several different options for producing font catalogues. Layouts Customised layouts can be saved to suit different tasks.
The absence of any Foundry is also a warning that the font may not be of professional quality. If you make a typo, you will soon realise it when no fonts are found. I made a copy of the template files in the MainType %AppData% folder, and told MainType to use those. Group your fonts Create font groups for birthdays, holidays, cars, animals, themes, or whatever needs you have and quickly load, install and uninstall them. The font colour and background colour can be defined from the swatch dropdowns. This feature also allows graphic designers to store fonts per project. If you need some fonts just for the current print job, load the font instead of installing it and it will be gone the next time you reboot.
My Kabala font family includes eight styles, the Garava font family includes five, Talapanna has two, Cankama and Odana have only one, while the rest have the usual four: Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic. When moving panels, drop them onto the arrows to dock them above, below, or beside another panel, or drop it on the centre button to dock the two panels as a tabbed panel like the Font Information and Font Integrity panels in the layout. High-Logic MainType Professional Edition 8. The layout illustrated above is in a window reduced to suit the width of this web page. For 5,000 fonts it only takes a few minutes.
Default tags are: Textured, Slab, Serif, Script, Sans, Rounded, Handwriting, Distorted, and Comic. On starting MainType the currently Active Fonts fonts that are either installed or loaded will be listed here. The kern table is a legacy feature, modern fonts use OpenType layout features usually Glyph Positioning for kerning tables. Five different layouts can be saved for different tasks, and shortcuts from Ctrl 1 to Ctrl 5 are automatically assigned, making it easy to switch layouts. MainType keeps the previous version in its library so one can soon find that there are a dozen different versions of the same font.
Font Tags Shift F9 Set, Add, or Remove tags to fonts. These issues can then be fixed with a single mouse click. There are many font vendors who made illegal copies of fonts to make a quick buck, and sold them at a significant profit to users who do not know about their true origins. This has no effect on the font in the MainType Library, and does not remove the TrueType file from the hard disk either. This helps you identify which font version you want to use, uninstall, categorize, or print.
If the number of glyphs or the font version is identical for each member of the family that is also displayed in the appropriate column, but if one style has fewer glyphs or a different revision number that column is left blank. If you create your own fonts you will find MainType invaluable for keeping track of font projects and comparing fonts for glyph coverage and inconsistencies in design. Team Synchronization Let MainType synchronize specific folders on your filesystem or network with special groups in the groups panel and you will always have an up to date list of your fonts. We can see at once that Linux Biolinum Kb lacks the t dot below. Font Groups If fonts are already sorted into folders on the hard drive, MainType can automatically create groups when adding fonts to the font library.
Open the layout manager to assign a shortcut key, rename a layout, or delete it. Use the Search field at the top right of the MainType window to enter part of a font name. Print a Font Information Sheet or for up to ten fonts at once, including all characters or glyphs in the Character panel. Tag Search F9 Find and filter fonts based on tagging. ¹ It was released in 1986 by Altsys, acquired by Macromedia in 1995, and by FontLab in 2005. Sample F7 Shows a text sample of the font at the chosen size.
Tags can be added, deleted, or renamed in the Tag Manger, which is on the Tools menu. Drag and drop fonts to the panel, or use the buttons on the Font Information panel title bar to add or remove selected fonts from the panel. Mouse-over and click the rollover to see different layouts with some panels disabled or pinned to the bottom. The green background indicates values that match, the red background indicates fields that do not. Adjust column widths by dragging the separators in the column headers to fit more fonts in the panel.