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What are the best font management software tools?

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Best font management software tools	Price	Last Updated
-- FontBase	Free	Jan 16, 2019
-- NexusFont	Free	Dec 18, 2018
-- Suitcase Fusion	-	Sep 16, 2018
-- SkyFonts	Free	Nov 23, 2018
-- RightFont	40	Jan 3, 2019

FontBase

Top Pro

Wonderful minimalist interface with good choice of controls

Top Con

Must open it everytime to activate fonts

FontBase's main pro is its main drawback - not needing to install fonts is great, but opening files using fonts not installed may not show them properly unless FontBase is also opened. See More

CommunicativeAristaeus's Experience

Free, but also includes affordable upgrade plans for extended functionality. Super-fast, easy to use, works on both Windows and MacOS See More

Top Pro

It saves you from having to install fonts

Top Con

Crashes with many fonts

David Aslan French's Experience

It's beautiful UI and cross platform BUT barely usable due to bad performance. I'm running a Surface Book 2 and this thing makes Adobe PS run like crap. See More

Top Pro

Free to use

FontBase is free. See More

Top Con

Makes Adobe programs run slow and crash

ReceptiveFangfeng's Experience

FontBase, where have you been all my life? See More

Top Pro

Works fast with a lot of fonts

innn's Experience

Looks good and behaves well. Does not need installation. The executable is ready to go. You drag your folder of fonts into the window in the left column, you push the tiny button after it turns to green all your beloved fonts are available to you into programs without needing to burden the fonts directory of your OS, in my case Windows. See More

Top Pro

Affordable upgrade option

IntelligentBrizo's Experience

Seems okay - stable and easy to use + it's free! See More

Top Pro

Get Google Fonts on your system in a few seconds

TrustworthyNatsiliani's Experience

Saves a lot of time! See More

Top Pro

Syncs font database from Dropbox easily

Fontbase allows you to easily set up watch folders allowing you to sync your font libraries directly from any cloud-based storage provider. See More

NexusFont

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Top Pro

Installation from custom folder without copying to system folder

It's good to separate system fonts and user fonts, but Windows doesn't support it by default. NexusFont helps to manage big collections. See More

Top Con

Windows only

NexusFont is not available for macOS or Linux. See More

David Aslan French's Experience

While I love FontBase's cross platform and great UI it runs so sluggishly that I've had to resort back to my original go to NexusFont. It's great! See More

Top Pro

Free

Top Con

Apparently stopped in development

Top Pro

Super fast

It can browse thousands of fonts instantly. Fontbase and Suitcase are nowhere near it. See More

Top Con

Organizing fonts are awkward

Suitcase Fusion

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Top Con

Steep cost on upgrades

Expensive price to pay for a license the user has already paid for. Aside from being a standalone Digital Asset Management (DAM) tool focused on fonts, it's highly used purely as plugins for Adobe products (which are similarly also well known for high cost licensing & upgrades) . See More

Top Pro

Automatically activates required fonts

mrsnak's Experience

Suitcase 7 was great. Suitcase * is a total disaster. Just look at their forum on this See More

Top Con

Current version UI is terrible, not for designers

Top Pro

Works on Macs and PCs

Arin Ringwald's Experience

Cash grabbing upgrades makes me cringe at the prospect of having to buy a new license for a new version EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. and or every time adobe releases a new version. Not only is it ridiculous, it's greedy, it's sneaky, it's manipulative, and it's got me scouring for alternatives. Version 7 had a great interface, complete with an 'explorer' view that allowed you to shuffle and sort fonts by a variety of methods. Version 8 came about as CC 2018 was released. Close to a year after version 7. The upgrade licence was like $60. More than most font programs cost outright. The single solitary reason I upgraded - so my auto-activation in CC 2018 keeps working. Not a single other valuable reason. It had an overhaul to the SF UI, doing away with the sort / explorer window completely, even at huge protest from customers who had grown to rely on it. This is even after they did a product testing and analysis with users. They blatantly ignored the community. Version 9 drops, again in tandem with CC 2019, and voila, the same story, 1 year later. Pay up $60 so I can auto-activate. What a load of sht. This time around, the new features include document tracking. Woop-de-who-the-f** cares about document tracking? I bought this for font navigation! More cash grab from a sleezy company. So sick of this. See More

SkyFonts

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Top Pro

Widely used

RightFont

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Lightweight

Top Con

No free version

LogicalShulpae's Experience

works really fast and have auto-activation fonts See More

Top Pro

Auto activation

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