The Slippery Soapbox

[alienmem]

I've never used an external font manager. I just install the fonts directly to windows, which some say slows it down tremendously. Probably, I dunno.

My question is what program do you use. is it really useful? And finally I presume there's no need to have the fonts at all, or do you have to have the fonts somewhere? On you HD?

Also, I some while ago think I heard Ctaulbee saying he has no files whasoever on his computer. That he stores everything in a cloud(whatever it may be. drop box, google drive or whatever). But can you work on the files directly from the cloud? Don't you have to download the stuff you need to your HD and work from there?


Sorry for the questions. I'm not informed

[ctaulbee]

Not me, I store only a few select items on the cloud, the bulk of my files are local or on external drives. I do store large amounts of resources in the cloud, so I don't waste my space but that is it, none of my personal files make it to the cloud.

I use NexusFont as my font manager because it's free and I don't use it very much mostly just to remove fonts.

I'll warn you now you can really screw up windows by removing fonts at random that "you think" are not needed and windows will likely not be able to fix it for you, just condsier yourself forewarned if you intend to remove fonts.

For adding fonts I just use windows install from right click, a font manager can't do it any better lol.

[alienmem]

Not me, I store only a few select items on the cloud, the bulk of my files are local or on external drives. I do store large amounts of resources in the cloud, so I don't waste my space but that is it, none of my personal files make it to the cloud.

I use NexusFont as my font manager because it's free and I don't use it very much mostly just to remove fonts.

I'll warn you now you can really screw up windows by removing fonts at random that "you think" are not needed and windows will likely not be able to fix it for you, just condsier yourself forewarned if you intend to remove fonts.

For adding fonts I just use windows install from right click, a font manager can't do it any better lol.

I never remove fonts. that's it. I dunno what fonts the system needs or not. So is that fontmanager useful if you only use it to remove fonts? Is removing fonts just going to the font folder and deleting the font type file. Or does installing the font creat additional stuff?

That font program you use notifies you if the system needs that particular font you're removing?


I'm gonna put everything in my external drive and only work from there. I have a external 500 gb external drive.

[Fogdude]

The safest way that I know of to remove fonts is to go to Control Panel, Fonts & remove them there. Just right click the font & select DELETE. From what I've seen Windows 10 won't let you delete system fonts or fonts the system is dependent on, unlike earlier versions of Windows. I know this because I've fallen into that trap before & paid for it, but when I attempted the same on a WIn10 system, it denied delete access to those files. There are  a whole lot of system fonts you'll probably never use, BTW, but you won't be allowed to delete them.

Yes, adding a lot of fonts slows down Windows a LOT because it loads all the fonts when you start Windows. So, it slows down loading time AND it uses up a lot of RAM. Removing fonts you installed yourself is never a problem.

[ctaulbee]

That font program you use notifies you if the system needs that particular font you're removing?

No, but it does allow easy ways to group and backup files when you remove them, not however by default.

If you don't plan to remove fonts, I can't imagine what real use you have for a font manager unless you have a huge collection of fonts you need to browse previews on.

I have a huge amount, they are all on their own external drive and very well organized yet I still find little use in browsing them, there are just too many for that.

Something you might find useful is a Font Re-Naming Utility, if you download fonts from the web because many are not what they are presented to be. The real font name is hard coded inside the font, the file name may or may not be what it is, many fake font sites re-name the files of "similar" fonts so they appear to be what a person is wanting, especially on expensive fonts that are hard to get.

By running a Font Re-Naming Utility on downloaded fonts before you install them it will change the filename to the real name of the font, stored inside the file itself. There are other more elaborate, harder to detect ways of creating fake fonts but those who do that generally are selling them illegally.

[topmeasure]

I store all my files on external drives well organized, don't bother with Windows font, no reason to and the fonts I have are on their own external drive with PS tools.