One of the most problematic issues associated with font management is how to manage font conflicts. Font conflicts come about when you activate a font with the same name as a font that is currently activated. If you have seen an alert like the one below you know what I am talking about.
Your operating system [...]
There is a curious new wrinkle introduced with Adobe InDesign CS 5 concerning font management.
A new feature debuted with the latest release allows you to locally activate fonts that are located in a folder on the same directory level as an InDesign document in a packaged job folder.
This is what it reads in the InDesign [...]
Mixing and matching typefaces in a document or a web site can be one of the bigger challenges for a designer. This article at typography.com offers a few tips on how to make you fonts play nice.
Have you ever went for a walk and cringed at the kerning on a billboard or sign?
You are not alone. The New York Times has a great article on what it’s like to be a typography lover in a world where good typography isn’t always practiced.
I love this quote, which is taken from the article: [...]
With the advent of OpenType, typographers and designers can benefit from many new “smart” features that allow glyph substitution and positioning depending on neighboring characters.
While not all OpenType fonts offer this capability (OpenType is a kind of wrapper for for a font, not a designation of it’s quality) many newer faces offer all kinds of [...]
In an earlier post I wrote about AppleScript and how we can automate some common tasks using it with FontAgent Pro. Here is a script that allows you to take advantage of one of FontAgent Pro’s cooler features–adding comments to fonts to use as search metadata.
You can manually add comments to fonts in FontAgent Pro [...]
The release of Snow Leopard brought a number of unexpected font issues, and one that I have been hearing about concerns Adobe InDesign, Helvetica Neue, and the system fonts that ship with Snow Leopard.
Everybody is familiar with issues of fonts activated in third-party font managers conflicting with OS X System fonts. The issue does not [...]
One of the least known features about FontAgent Pro 4 is that you can automate it using AppleScript.
For those of you unfamiliar with AppleScript, it is an English-like language used to write scripts that automate the actions of your Mac and the applications on it. In short, when you want your applications to start working [...]
A few posts ago we talked about Apple Font Tools, ftxinstalled fonts in particular. Apple Font Tools is a suite of command line utilities that can help you with many issues concerning fonts on your Mac. One of the helpful tools included in this suite is ftxvalidator. This tool can be very useful if you [...]