You missed the most important part on how to activate the fonts in FontBase so that they show up in Photoshop and every other Adobe app. Here's how: To activate all fonts in the collection, provided you already imported those font folders into Fontbase, simply click on the white circle next to "Inactive". This will move them all to "Active" and the white circle will become solid green next to "Active". Obviously if you have thousands of fonts, you might not go crazy and activate them all since it will bring your computer to a crawl. Use your judgement, be selective by creating collections that you can activate or deactivate based on need before launching Photoshop or the like.
@@Nachovyx activating the fonts only makes them accessible in other programs, It doesnt actually install them. A font manager allows you to store your fonts on an external drive and use the font manager to view them. Why do we do this? because having 25,000 fonts installed in your computer would take all the memory and drive space not to mention make photoshop slow as dirt.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I love this app, but there was so much I wasn't doing right. It's kind of frustrating that there is no manual or good tutorials for it. This was so helpful to me!
ya same, its why i made the tutorial but in the end it was to buggy and slow so i deleted it. I use suitcase fusion for pc it even has an exstension for adobe made a video about that to buddy. Also if you have a mac theres so many better options but for pc the suitcase fusion was the only one that actually worked and i tried everything.
Your tutorial was a big help for me to use and optimize Fontbase. Thanks a lot. Just a small correction: At 7:30 you said, that you can only change the preview text in the settings. But in fact you can easily change the preview text temporarly by clicking the standard text at the bottom in the middle.
I did not see that and I struggled to use this software, in the end, it was way to buggy and decided not to use it, but when i looked for tutorials on how to use this software i found none in english so I was frustrated and felt maybe others were too and created this video to help others. Im using exstensis font manager it is a millions times better.
I found this so helpful...Thank you. I did a few things different (because YOU provided the template) with this video). I thought I would share here in case it helps someone. I created TWO folders on my desktop...one FONTS...the other SYSTEM FONTS. I went to the website you linked to and downloaded the system fonts in the SYSTEM FONTS folder I made on my desktop. I the went and copied my fonts (control panel > appearance...>fonts). I should note that I have a little over 2,900 fonts. I copied by selecting "select all". I then right clicked and chose copy. I then pasted all the fonts into the FONTS folder I made on my desktop. I confirmed that all fonts were in the two folders I made. Once I did that, I deleted all the fonts in the system folder (control panel), NOTE: Some fonts could not be deleted (pop-up message said "protected system fonts". I then copied all the fonts in the SYSTEM FONTS folder on my desktop. I pasted those fonts in the system folder (control panel). NOTE: I felt more secure having the system fonts secured prior to deleting in control panel. I then created a FONTS folder on Google Drive and copied all the fonts from my FONTS folder on my desktop into the Google Drive folder. Google Drive provides 15G cloud storage for free. I had already downloaded fontbase per your guidance.. I went into fontbase settings and changed "root folder" to the Google Drive folder FONTS. The fonts loaded from Google Drive to my fontbase program. I proceeded to make "collections" and dragged and dropped fonts into the "collection" I wanted...sometimes more than one "collection" for the same font. I am currently on "C" fonts...going to take a while lol...can't imagine if I'd had 11,000 fonts! I deleted the 2 folders (FONTS and SYSTEM FONTS) on my desktop. Hope someone finds this useful.
Im glad it was helpful for you, I still am having issues finding a font manager that can house all my fonts Im thinking cloud storage would be the best bet. Its a shame that adobes type kit is useless as it only store adobe fonts but not other fonts.
@@PhotohackLovers I'm loving fontbase actually. I am doing things differently though. I do not use Google Drive for storing the font file used by fontbase (I DO use Google Drive for a backup folder of my fonts). I prefer being in control of the access to my fonts. I keep a "FONTS" file that fontbase is directed to on my computer. I've found that system resources...load times...lag...are not an issue because only "activated" fonts are being uploaded to affinity photo...not THOUSANDS like before.
Thank you for your time in making this tutorial. I accidentally found out that if the FontBase folder has subfolders, it will automatically be included in the FOLDERS panel. I.e. I made a sub folder called, Whiteboard fonts and Cursive fonts. These 2 folders appeared in the FOLDERS panel include the fonts.
I know it's been a long time since anyone commented but maybe some of what’s in this comment will be useful. I agree that the program can be difficult to figure out and there's so little documentation. That aside I did get it working. So here are a few things I ran across or figured out: Working with collections that you create can be easier than it looks at first. You can select more than one font at a time to speed up adding them to a collection. Clicking the font's name is likely to open its details page. So instead, click within the line of sample text for that font. You'll know it's selected when the font's name turns blue. To de-select it, on a Windows machine hold down the CONTROL key and click the font's sample text line. (COMMAND key on the Mac?) To select several fonts _dis_ continuously, hold down CONTROL as you click fonts to select them. To select a _continuous_ range of fonts: Select the first one, go to the line containing the last font you want to select, hold down SHIFT, and click within the sample text again. If multiple fonts are selected, hover the mouse over one of them, then drag the pointer over the top of the collection name. This adds _all_ of the selected fonts to the collection. If any of the names you selected are actually a font _family_ the entire family is dragged into the collection. As for the colored squares that appear to the left of each font name or font family name, as far as I can tell the color scheme is: Black open square: font is not activated. Green closed square: font is activated or entire font family is activated. Green _open_ square: some fonts within the font family are activated and others aren't. I haven't figured out why some of those icons are dots instead of squares. At first I thought a dot meant "OTF" font but this doesn't seem to be the case.
actually people comment on this daily however, I think most people on here complain about the program being buggy not how its used as that was explained in the video, me and others like myself have had issues with this program working and most of us have computers so powerful we could hack the pentagon, but still this program just doesnt work. Trust me we want it to work because its free but it doesnt.
@@PhotohackLovers Somehow it's working for me. There are some things I wish it did better and for all that the developer tried to make it elegant-looking, there are some clumsy things in the user interface that need improving (the developer does not seem to be moving like lightning to release new versions or updates). Anyway, so far I have been able to get it to do what I need - I guess I should consider myself lucky. I've looked at reviews of a few other font handling tools for Windows and they also look a bit clumsily designed. The other one that you're using and recommending does look like the top of the line. But as someone who doesn't make his living via graphic arts, I can't justify the cost. (And I want to avoid the subscription model when I can.)
I have an update, Im editing the video as we speak it should be out tommarow 2/5/2020 its a new font manager and it works flawlessly it has a free and paid version its the answer to our prayers. get excited and subscribe and hit the bell to be notified when it goes live.
That sounds pretty interesting. Subscribed. It's a FontBase update? Or some new program? I never did dive into investigating other tools. FontBase is working just well enough to be still usable. But I'm still not crazy about that user interface.
Hi! I've just found your video yesterday, but I'm only commenting today, aahahah! The tip I can give you now, without reading the comments below, is that instead of changing the default text in the options menu, you can came to the bottom of the page/list and change there the text for that use... Despite that, thanks for the tutorial!!!
@@PhotohackLovers Hah! Well, you've got me by 3,000. Impressed! My font manager progression: NexusFont > FontBase > FontExpert 👍 Your channel is... _magical!_ ✨
@@Kridian01 im using suitcase fusion 9 now its amazing it works directly within the creative cloud so I don't have to close photoshop i can just use the extension inside photoshop and look at all my fonts, i did a review on it as well th-cam.com/video/4CNSVvpeUlg/w-d-xo.html
@@PhotohackLovers Actually, you mention that this was a problem you encountered, but you don't go back and tell us how you fixed it. Would love to hear this! I've been trying to figure it out myself and am probably not using the correct key words in my google searches to find an answer.
When you set up a font program your fonts are accessed through the font program this is to save space so your computer can run faster. You will enable the font in the font program font base and it should be enabled in all. Clicking the circle button make it green it turns it on. However I don’t use this program for my fonts it’s buggy as hell I use suitcase fusion see my vide tutorials on that
I found this program to be buggy and i didnt like it sometimes it worked and sometimes it didnt, I am using suitcase fusion and that has an exstension inside adobe directly and i absolutely love the program and highly reccomend it. I made a video about it you can view it here th-cam.com/video/4CNSVvpeUlg/w-d-xo.html
no, and usually the licence of fonts are 1 seat per use "legally speaking" however you could copy and paste all the fonts to each computer and download the software to each computer that way.
I have a question: can I delete all fonts in my (Windows 10) font folder, and move them to a new folder? I want to clean up the fonts folder, since there is a lot of fonts that I never use (like chinese, arabian etc), and put in a new folder only the fonts that are useful to me. But I'm worring about deleting system and software fonts. What should I do? In W7DF page, there is a link to download Windows 10 Default fonts, but in the package there are only fonts whose names begin with the number 85. I don't see fonts like Arial there. UPDATE: I couldn't delete all fonts in my Windows 10 system fonts folder! It seem that the fonts in use and needed by the system are not deleted. It's strange that 90 font's families are still there! Do the system need such amount of fonts? If I can't delete these fonts, can I manage them in Fontbase?
that's exactly what I did I copied and pasted all my fonts in a new folder, deleted all the system font and reinstalled them. I show you that in the video and a link is provided in the description to re-download the system fonts. Your correct certain system fonts that ship with windows cannot be deleted because of certain applications won't work, I got rid of them by saving out to an external harddrive and re-installing an ssd drive and upgrading to windows pro. I had way to many fonts and it was bogging my computer down.
@@PhotohackLovers Thanks! Do you know some ready to use fonts collections on the internet? I mean fonts categorized by groups, like decorative, commercial, humor, education etc. I'm looking for something to use as a starting point.
@@Esclarecidos no I have never seen anything like that, usually, people collect fonts over the years and organize them into folders themselves, I started out using free fonts but it really left my graphics looking generic and employers and other seasoned graphic designers will be able to tell that you lack typography skills if you just use free fonts. That is the first thing that I notice about designs is the font. People dont think it but fonts are important. Ive spent probably over 5 grand on fonts alone maybe more but those fonts make me tripple in return. Thats how you have to think as a designer.
Thank you for such a good tutorial! This seem you have long experience about this FontBase. I have a few questions and hope to get feedback from you. 1. Does this app make computer slow down every time you open it with around 1 thousand of the fonts added? I have an experience for few years with Suitcase Fusion font manager, this always make computer slow down for most time with lots of fonts. So does it work smoothly? 2. All collections that you have added, can be backup and can be easily added when new windows/mac operating system re-installed (Operating sometimes got error and need to be re-installed).
Are you a trained designer? I'm having a hard time understanding how you don't see the benefit of changing the text preview background. And glyphs? They are super important for good design! The pin is for pinning your selection to the top. I assume so that you can easily access your favorites when you're ready to use them.
Obviously I am :) given the tons of training videos ive done, however I stand by my comment that the glyph preview in fontbase is garbage it doesnt allow you to do anything at all but view it and in addition to that epic failure it also doesnt show all possible glyphs nor does it group like fonts or sets with additional glyphs or swatches. The color button and background button are not at all useful to me as it is most definitely an armature thing to just add a flat color. Im a bright and loud designer thats my style, I usually do a lot of type effects and special effects with my type anyways. My backgrounds vary as well. It just depends. A little background, I was an artist first, I painted and sketched long before i became a designer, so i tend to do everything in black and white first anyways, so I dont need color to determine whether or not a font is appropriate for my design project i guess not needing a color blanket comes with years of experience. the pinning feature doesnt add to favorites there is a heart icon next to it that does that, I will have to test whether or not pinning rearranges the order but last time i checked its alphabetical.
Photohack Lovers It wasn’t my intention to say that pinning would add to your Favourites, as in the category ‘Favourites.’ I meant your favourites for the specific design you are selecting for. When you heart something, I assume you add it to a permanent list of favourites that you can easily access all the time. This is great for your go-to fonts. Pinning, at least for me, makes sense for when you are sampling multiple fonts for the specific project you are working on and you want to compare them or save them to decide after some time browsing. Makes a lot of sense to me. Regarding colour-No, it is not amateur to add just flat colour. Nor does the desire to see a visual sample mean one has little experience. An artist is not equal to a designer, and it seems you are more an artist than a designer. There are some very fundamental rules that you seem to miss completely. I do wish Fontbase provided some instruction on how to get the most out of their software. I agree that the glyphs are confusing.
@@drawitout Im so surprised to hear you say that! I don't really have any art that I have painted or drawn online its very rare that I do, I'm a graphic designer, I went to school for 4 years and obtained a degree, I draw and do Photo composites as a hobby but I am a Professional Graphic designer, This program was missing a lot of key things that I would need as a designer which I pointed out. You cannot select the glyphs or adjust them, some of the fonts I purchase have double ligatures and many glyphs as well as swashes and if I cannot select them and modify the glyphs to the fonts it's accompanied with it is useless. Seeing a font in a program over a different background color or to change its color doesn't really do much for me as a designer what I meant is it wasn't enough. This program is great for a beginner but it really is missing what I needed, I thought I would never find a font manager other than fontbase when i made this tutorial, back in the day adobe used to have one but they discontinued it years ago, after that There weren't a whole lot of options for font managers for pc, but i kept searching, and finally I did find a font manager that met all of my needs as a designer and I did a full honest review on it. Ultimately what I was looking for was a font manger that worked within the creative cloud instead of looking at my fonts on random colors in buggy font base. You can see the review here...th-cam.com/video/4CNSVvpeUlg/w-d-xo.html
@@thedarthvader2061Sacha yes I prefer to view the fonts in black and white and not in color I agree 100% that its the shape you want to see first and then once you have the font you bring it into a photo editing program and add your color scheme.
Hi! thanks for you video! it look really nice so i downloaded! the thing is that i have already installed my fonts before fontbase, then i drag and drop the folder were i keep them all but i think im doing something wrong because i have a list in the software of all my fonts actually working but they appear inactivated in the program, when i click the spot to activate, the icon remains rolling and never turn green (actiated), so i cant really manage my fonts from there
I had this problem too, I found that this program works when it wants too hence the reason it is free, I use exstensis font manager it is the only font manager for windows that works 100%.
after changing the root folder to the folder with my fonts, they didnt show up in the program. Also, do i have to uninstall the fonts in order to be able to activate and deactivate them?
This is the problem with this software which is why i dont use this its buggy I use highlogic main type font software which is the best for the pc I have used many this one is without fault.
i want to use "lucida grande" from mac font to use in windows "intelliJ idea", can anyone understand my problem? i really like that mac font and want to use that in windowzzzz
@@PhotohackLovers oh no I can’t really use a laptop very well coz I’ve always use iPads or phones when I do finally get into my laptop I get confused and struggle really easily, I obviously didn’t pay attention to that class in school 😂
I have many fonts that aren't showing. They appear in the sidebar in their respective folders but most of them say "These are not the fonts you're looking for", with a sad face. Any idea why this is happening?
This is why I dont use font base it is very buggy I had the same issue have you seen my video on the alternative font manager th-cam.com/video/P4szvbflV7w/w-d-xo.html
Photohack Lovers Thanks - I’ll look at the font manager- some of the online pages look Iike it’s out of date - does it work OK with Creative Cloud 2020 apps?
Font base for me was buggy, I had the same issue sync problems are bad with this software you will spend more time trying to sync the files if anything. I would try restarting computer and try and re-sync. I am using suitcase fusion for pc if you have a mac there are better alternatives in the free realm.
the video explains how to change the standard phrase I cant recall off the top of my head, unfortunately I dont use this program I use suitcase fusion so I only used and reviewed it briefly before finding a better version.
1. Can't move system fonts on windows 10, or I spose you could try with symlinks, but you'll probably break something. 2. No you absolutely don't want your fonts on an external drive or in the cloud. That will be *slower* than having it on your main drive. Why? USB bus speeds are slower than SATA or NVMe.
You dont want 10,000 fonts on your desktop either it slows down the program and storing them on an exsternal drive or the cloud is more beneficial because you are only activating the fonts you need when you need them.
@@PhotohackLovers then that's a limitation of this program. "Maintype" allows you to keep your font files on your desktop and only have certain ones "active" (installed). Furthermore you can tag the system default fonts eliminating the step of having to download them. Though if you want 10,000 fonts you'll have to buy Maintype as IIRC the free version limits it to 2000
Its definitely not the sound from the video because I used a 400 mic and use premiere for professional sound editing I would check your speakers bruh. Also it might be a browser issue. No one else complained about the sound and I test audio and sound on several different devices before uploading. 😘
@@PhotohackLovers Your audio quality is totally fine. : ) I saw you made some comments a year ago about switching to Extensis... What are you using now and/or what do you recommend. I'd prefer a freebie for now (I only have about 3500 fonts) but I don't mind paying for software if it makes things faster for me. Thanks!
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You missed the most important part on how to activate the fonts in FontBase so that they show up in Photoshop and every other Adobe app. Here's how: To activate all fonts in the collection, provided you already imported those font folders into Fontbase, simply click on the white circle next to "Inactive". This will move them all to "Active" and the white circle will become solid green next to "Active". Obviously if you have thousands of fonts, you might not go crazy and activate them all since it will bring your computer to a crawl. Use your judgement, be selective by creating collections that you can activate or deactivate based on need before launching Photoshop or the like.
yes i did activate it but it is a bit buggy and it didnt work for me.
Question from a new user: what does activating these fonts do for you? Do they load faster on PS and/or text programs?
@@Nachovyx activating the fonts only makes them accessible in other programs, It doesnt actually install them. A font manager allows you to store your fonts on an external drive and use the font manager to view them. Why do we do this? because having 25,000 fonts installed in your computer would take all the memory and drive space not to mention make photoshop slow as dirt.
The pin function pins fonts you are looking at to the top so you can carry on searching and not lose ones you like the look of. Thanks for the video!
That is interesting, its too bad most of these companies leave the user guessing.
Na true, the pin is useful for you to leave a font in prominence, so that you can compare it to other fonts :)
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I love this app, but there was so much I wasn't doing right. It's kind of frustrating that there is no manual or good tutorials for it. This was so helpful to me!
ya same, its why i made the tutorial but in the end it was to buggy and slow so i deleted it. I use suitcase fusion for pc it even has an exstension for adobe made a video about that to buddy. Also if you have a mac theres so many better options but for pc the suitcase fusion was the only one that actually worked and i tried everything.
Your tutorial was a big help for me to use and optimize Fontbase. Thanks a lot.
Just a small correction: At 7:30 you said, that you can only change the preview text in the settings. But in fact you can easily change the preview text temporarly by clicking the standard text at the bottom in the middle.
I did not see that and I struggled to use this software, in the end, it was way to buggy and decided not to use it, but when i looked for tutorials on how to use this software i found none in english so I was frustrated and felt maybe others were too and created this video to help others. Im using exstensis font manager it is a millions times better.
I found this so helpful...Thank you. I did a few things different (because YOU provided the template) with this video). I thought I would share here in case it helps someone. I created TWO folders on my desktop...one FONTS...the other SYSTEM FONTS. I went to the website you linked to and downloaded the system fonts in the SYSTEM FONTS folder I made on my desktop. I the went and copied my fonts (control panel > appearance...>fonts). I should note that I have a little over 2,900 fonts. I copied by selecting "select all". I then right clicked and chose copy. I then pasted all the fonts into the FONTS folder I made on my desktop. I confirmed that all fonts were in the two folders I made. Once I did that, I deleted all the fonts in the system folder (control panel), NOTE: Some fonts could not be deleted (pop-up message said "protected system fonts". I then copied all the fonts in the SYSTEM FONTS folder on my desktop. I pasted those fonts in the system folder (control panel). NOTE: I felt more secure having the system fonts secured prior to deleting in control panel. I then created a FONTS folder on Google Drive and copied all the fonts from my FONTS folder on my desktop into the Google Drive folder. Google Drive provides 15G cloud storage for free. I had already downloaded fontbase per your guidance.. I went into fontbase settings and changed "root folder" to the Google Drive folder FONTS. The fonts loaded from Google Drive to my fontbase program. I proceeded to make "collections" and dragged and dropped fonts into the "collection" I wanted...sometimes more than one "collection" for the same font. I am currently on "C" fonts...going to take a while lol...can't imagine if I'd had 11,000 fonts! I deleted the 2 folders (FONTS and SYSTEM FONTS) on my desktop. Hope someone finds this useful.
Im glad it was helpful for you, I still am having issues finding a font manager that can house all my fonts Im thinking cloud storage would be the best bet. Its a shame that adobes type kit is useless as it only store adobe fonts but not other fonts.
@@PhotohackLovers I'm loving fontbase actually. I am doing things differently though. I do not use Google Drive for storing the font file used by fontbase (I DO use Google Drive for a backup folder of my fonts). I prefer being in control of the access to my fonts. I keep a "FONTS" file that fontbase is directed to on my computer. I've found that system resources...load times...lag...are not an issue because only "activated" fonts are being uploaded to affinity photo...not THOUSANDS like before.
Thanks for taking your time and putting something together to give us a base how to use the software. It was a big help. Keep doing good work.
you're so very welcome!
Thank you for sharing such useful tips.
My pleasure 😊
Thank you for your time in making this tutorial.
I accidentally found out that if the FontBase folder has subfolders, it will automatically be included in the FOLDERS panel. I.e. I made a sub folder called, Whiteboard fonts and Cursive fonts. These 2 folders appeared in the FOLDERS panel include the fonts.
thank you so much for your kind words.
I know it's been a long time since anyone commented but maybe some of what’s in this comment will be useful. I agree that the program can be difficult to figure out and there's so little documentation. That aside I did get it working. So here are a few things I ran across or figured out:
Working with collections that you create can be easier than it looks at first. You can select more than one font at a time to speed up adding them to a collection.
Clicking the font's name is likely to open its details page. So instead, click within the line of sample text for that font. You'll know it's selected when the font's name turns blue. To de-select it, on a Windows machine hold down the CONTROL key and click the font's sample text line.
(COMMAND key on the Mac?)
To select several fonts _dis_ continuously, hold down CONTROL as you click fonts to select them. To select a _continuous_ range of fonts: Select the first one, go to the line containing the last font you want to select, hold down SHIFT, and click within the sample text again.
If multiple fonts are selected, hover the mouse over one of them, then drag the pointer over the top of the collection name. This adds _all_ of the selected fonts to the collection. If any of the names you selected are actually a font _family_ the entire family is dragged into the collection.
As for the colored squares that appear to the left of each font name or font family name, as far as I can tell the color scheme is: Black open square: font is not activated. Green closed square: font is activated or entire font family is activated. Green _open_ square: some fonts within the font family are activated and others aren't.
I haven't figured out why some of those icons are dots instead of squares. At first I thought a dot meant "OTF" font but this doesn't seem to be the case.
actually people comment on this daily however, I think most people on here complain about the program being buggy not how its used as that was explained in the video, me and others like myself have had issues with this program working and most of us have computers so powerful we could hack the pentagon, but still this program just doesnt work. Trust me we want it to work because its free but it doesnt.
@@PhotohackLovers Somehow it's working for me. There are some things I wish it did better and for all that the developer tried to make it elegant-looking, there are some clumsy things in the user interface that need improving (the developer does not seem to be moving like lightning to release new versions or updates).
Anyway, so far I have been able to get it to do what I need - I guess I should consider myself lucky. I've looked at reviews of a few other font handling tools for Windows and they also look a bit clumsily designed. The other one that you're using and recommending does look like the top of the line. But as someone who doesn't make his living via graphic arts, I can't justify the cost. (And I want to avoid the subscription model when I can.)
I have an update, Im editing the video as we speak it should be out tommarow 2/5/2020 its a new font manager and it works flawlessly it has a free and paid version its the answer to our prayers. get excited and subscribe and hit the bell to be notified when it goes live.
That sounds pretty interesting. Subscribed. It's a FontBase update? Or some new program? I never did dive into investigating other tools. FontBase is working just well enough to be still usable. But I'm still not crazy about that user interface.
@@mikearst2940 have you tried this
Thanks a bunch. I was wondering how I can use my fonts without installing them all... thanks for sharing.
glad I was able to help.
Hi! I've just found your video yesterday, but I'm only commenting today, aahahah! The tip I can give you now, without reading the comments below, is that instead of changing the default text in the options menu, you can came to the bottom of the page/list and change there the text for that use...
Despite that, thanks for the tutorial!!!
Thanks for the tips!
I'm a font hoarder! Oh, and I _luuuv_ you! 🤓
omg I should have totally started this video with hello my name is charlotte and im a chronic font hoarder, so far i have hoarded over 11,000 fonts!
@@PhotohackLovers Hah! Well, you've got me by 3,000. Impressed!
My font manager progression: NexusFont > FontBase > FontExpert 👍
Your channel is... _magical!_ ✨
@@Kridian01 im using suitcase fusion 9 now its amazing it works directly within the creative cloud so I don't have to close photoshop i can just use the extension inside photoshop and look at all my fonts, i did a review on it as well th-cam.com/video/4CNSVvpeUlg/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for this video! If I move all the fonts off my PC onto a hard-drive, will my Microsoft programs also access them from fontbase?
In this video there is a section i cover where you have to connect the two to get them to talk to one another you have to set this up.
@@PhotohackLovers Actually, you mention that this was a problem you encountered, but you don't go back and tell us how you fixed it. Would love to hear this! I've been trying to figure it out myself and am probably not using the correct key words in my google searches to find an answer.
When you set up a font program your fonts are accessed through the font program this is to save space so your computer can run faster. You will enable the font in the font program font base and it should be enabled in all. Clicking the circle button make it green it turns it on. However I don’t use this program for my fonts it’s buggy as hell I use suitcase fusion see my vide tutorials on that
thanks for the tutorial, i got a question. how can i use the fonts in adobe software without installing on my pc?
I found this program to be buggy and i didnt like it sometimes it worked and sometimes it didnt, I am using suitcase fusion and that has an exstension inside adobe directly and i absolutely love the program and highly reccomend it. I made a video about it you can view it here th-cam.com/video/4CNSVvpeUlg/w-d-xo.html
Thank you, I could barely understand anything when I used the app.
You are very welcome! 😍
Thanks I found the one I want
Awesome!
Are you allowed to use this program between a team of people and all have access to the same fonts?
no, and usually the licence of fonts are 1 seat per use "legally speaking" however you could copy and paste all the fonts to each computer and download the software to each computer that way.
I have a question: can I delete all fonts in my (Windows 10) font folder, and move them to a new folder? I want to clean up the fonts folder, since there is a lot of fonts that I never use (like chinese, arabian etc), and put in a new folder only the fonts that are useful to me. But I'm worring about deleting system and software fonts. What should I do? In W7DF page, there is a link to download Windows 10 Default fonts, but in the package there are only fonts whose names begin with the number 85. I don't see fonts like Arial there.
UPDATE: I couldn't delete all fonts in my Windows 10 system fonts folder! It seem that the fonts in use and needed by the system are not deleted. It's strange that 90 font's families are still there! Do the system need such amount of fonts? If I can't delete these fonts, can I manage them in Fontbase?
that's exactly what I did I copied and pasted all my fonts in a new folder, deleted all the system font and reinstalled them. I show you that in the video and a link is provided in the description to re-download the system fonts. Your correct certain system fonts that ship with windows cannot be deleted because of certain applications won't work, I got rid of them by saving out to an external harddrive and re-installing an ssd drive and upgrading to windows pro. I had way to many fonts and it was bogging my computer down.
@@PhotohackLovers Thanks! Do you know some ready to use fonts collections on the internet? I mean fonts categorized by groups, like decorative, commercial, humor, education etc. I'm looking for something to use as a starting point.
@@Esclarecidos no I have never seen anything like that, usually, people collect fonts over the years and organize them into folders themselves, I started out using free fonts but it really left my graphics looking generic and employers and other seasoned graphic designers will be able to tell that you lack typography skills if you just use free fonts. That is the first thing that I notice about designs is the font. People dont think it but fonts are important. Ive spent probably over 5 grand on fonts alone maybe more but those fonts make me tripple in return. Thats how you have to think as a designer.
Thank you for such a good tutorial! This seem you have long experience about this FontBase. I have a few questions and hope to get feedback from you.
1. Does this app make computer slow down every time you open it with around 1 thousand of the fonts added? I have an experience for few years with Suitcase Fusion font manager, this always make computer slow down for most time with lots of fonts. So does it work smoothly?
2. All collections that you have added, can be backup and can be easily added when new windows/mac operating system re-installed (Operating sometimes got error and need to be re-installed).
It didnt make my computer slow but it was buggy and i dont use it i use suitcase fusion and i love it.
Are you a trained designer? I'm having a hard time understanding how you don't see the benefit of changing the text preview background. And glyphs? They are super important for good design!
The pin is for pinning your selection to the top. I assume so that you can easily access your favorites when you're ready to use them.
Obviously I am :) given the tons of training videos ive done, however I stand by my comment that the glyph preview in fontbase is garbage it doesnt allow you to do anything at all but view it and in addition to that epic failure it also doesnt show all possible glyphs nor does it group like fonts or sets with additional glyphs or swatches. The color button and background button are not at all useful to me as it is most definitely an armature thing to just add a flat color. Im a bright and loud designer thats my style, I usually do a lot of type effects and special effects with my type anyways. My backgrounds vary as well. It just depends. A little background, I was an artist first, I painted and sketched long before i became a designer, so i tend to do everything in black and white first anyways, so I dont need color to determine whether or not a font is appropriate for my design project i guess not needing a color blanket comes with years of experience.
the pinning feature doesnt add to favorites there is a heart icon next to it that does that, I will have to test whether or not pinning rearranges the order but last time i checked its alphabetical.
Photohack Lovers It wasn’t my intention to say that pinning would add to your Favourites, as in the category ‘Favourites.’ I meant your favourites for the specific design you are selecting for. When you heart something, I assume you add it to a permanent list of favourites that you can easily access all the time. This is great for your go-to fonts. Pinning, at least for me, makes sense for when you are sampling multiple fonts for the specific project you are working on and you want to compare them or save them to decide after some time browsing. Makes a lot of sense to me.
Regarding colour-No, it is not amateur to add just flat colour. Nor does the desire to see a visual sample mean one has little experience. An artist is not equal to a designer, and it seems you are more an artist than a designer. There are some very fundamental rules that you seem to miss completely.
I do wish Fontbase provided some instruction on how to get the most out of their software. I agree that the glyphs are confusing.
@@drawitout Im so surprised to hear you say that! I don't really have any art that I have painted or drawn online its very rare that I do, I'm a graphic designer, I went to school for 4 years and obtained a degree, I draw and do Photo composites as a hobby but I am a Professional Graphic designer, This program was missing a lot of key things that I would need as a designer which I pointed out. You cannot select the glyphs or adjust them, some of the fonts I purchase have double ligatures and many glyphs as well as swashes and if I cannot select them and modify the glyphs to the fonts it's accompanied with it is useless. Seeing a font in a program over a different background color or to change its color doesn't really do much for me as a designer what I meant is it wasn't enough. This program is great for a beginner but it really is missing what I needed, I thought I would never find a font manager other than fontbase when i made this tutorial, back in the day adobe used to have one but they discontinued it years ago, after that There weren't a whole lot of options for font managers for pc, but i kept searching, and finally I did find a font manager that met all of my needs as a designer and I did a full honest review on it. Ultimately what I was looking for was a font manger that worked within the creative cloud instead of looking at my fonts on random colors in buggy font base. You can see the review here...th-cam.com/video/4CNSVvpeUlg/w-d-xo.html
@@thedarthvader2061Sacha yes I prefer to view the fonts in black and white and not in color I agree 100% that its the shape you want to see first and then once you have the font you bring it into a photo editing program and add your color scheme.
Thanks for the info!
your welcome!
Hi! thanks for you video! it look really nice so i downloaded! the thing is that i have already installed my fonts before fontbase, then i drag and drop the folder were i keep them all but i think im doing something wrong because i have a list in the software of all my fonts actually working but they appear inactivated in the program, when i click the spot to activate, the icon remains rolling and never turn green (actiated), so i cant really manage my fonts from there
I had this problem too, I found that this program works when it wants too hence the reason it is free, I use exstensis font manager it is the only font manager for windows that works 100%.
after changing the root folder to the folder with my fonts, they didnt show up in the program. Also, do i have to uninstall the fonts in order to be able to activate and deactivate them?
This is the problem with this software which is why i dont use this its buggy I use highlogic main type font software which is the best for the pc I have used many this one is without fault.
Thanks for this clear video
your welcome!
Could you please suggest a font viewer that actually views system fonts? cause FontBase doesn't do that, which is very wierd.
I personally use maintype it is a paid version and its the most stable one for the pc.
@@PhotohackLovers I see! Isn't there a good free alternative? Thanks for your reply
i want to use "lucida grande" from mac font to use in windows "intelliJ idea", can anyone understand my problem? i really like that mac font and want to use that in windowzzzz
Im pretty sure lucida grande is on windows. Here is the download fontsgeek.com/fonts/Lucida-Grande-Regular
thanks :)
No problem!
Can u get this app on a iPad Pro ??
no there really isnt a way to manage and store fonts on ipad which is why I dont use an ipad anymore.
@@PhotohackLovers oh no I can’t really use a laptop very well coz I’ve always use iPads or phones when I do finally get into my laptop I get confused and struggle really easily, I obviously didn’t pay attention to that class in school 😂
I have many fonts that aren't showing. They appear in the sidebar in their respective folders but most of them say "These are not the fonts you're looking for", with a sad face. Any idea why this is happening?
This is why I dont use font base it is very buggy I had the same issue have you seen my video on the alternative font manager
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Photohack Lovers Thanks - I’ll look at the font manager- some of the online pages look Iike it’s out of date - does it work OK with Creative Cloud 2020 apps?
How come all my font's do not show up in this program? Example fonts I purchased from Design Bundles? like the ones from sabrina schleiger
Font base for me was buggy, I had the same issue sync problems are bad with this software you will spend more time trying to sync the files if anything. I would try restarting computer and try and re-sync. I am using suitcase fusion for pc if you have a mac there are better alternatives in the free realm.
Where do I type in my phrase versus the standard phrase (quick brown fox)....Thanks for the help
the video explains how to change the standard phrase I cant recall off the top of my head, unfortunately I dont use this program I use suitcase fusion so I only used and reviewed it briefly before finding a better version.
1. Can't move system fonts on windows 10, or I spose you could try with symlinks, but you'll probably break something.
2. No you absolutely don't want your fonts on an external drive or in the cloud. That will be *slower* than having it on your main drive. Why? USB bus speeds are slower than SATA or NVMe.
You dont want 10,000 fonts on your desktop either it slows down the program and storing them on an exsternal drive or the cloud is more beneficial because you are only activating the fonts you need when you need them.
@@PhotohackLovers then that's a limitation of this program. "Maintype" allows you to keep your font files on your desktop and only have certain ones "active" (installed).
Furthermore you can tag the system default fonts eliminating the step of having to download them.
Though if you want 10,000 fonts you'll have to buy Maintype as IIRC the free version limits it to 2000
HI,
how can i add a font to a folder?
the video shows you how, it shows you step by step, in the instructions i show you how to create your own folders and how to add the fonts to them.
It's free ??
yes it is but its not that great
Got a Virus on my Mac. I have never installed anything on my computer except font base.
I didnt know macs caught viruses.
No you didn't.
Sorry -- the sound quality of this video is so bad that I had to stop before the end of the first minute.
Its definitely not the sound from the video because I used a 400 mic and use premiere for professional sound editing I would check your speakers bruh. Also it might be a browser issue. No one else complained about the sound and I test audio and sound on several different devices before uploading. 😘
@@PhotohackLovers Your audio quality is totally fine. : ) I saw you made some comments a year ago about switching to Extensis... What are you using now and/or what do you recommend. I'd prefer a freebie for now (I only have about 3500 fonts) but I don't mind paying for software if it makes things faster for me. Thanks!
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