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Catagorising Font and displaying font collections. How do the professionals do it?
#1 Posted by messlah on 2008-10-23 00:31:19 | quote | 203.208.*.2*
Hi all,

I'm a self taught web/graphic designer and have emased a collection of thousands of fonts over the years. Just wondering is there an actual professional catagorising system professional typographers use to catagorise there fonts? (I catagorised my collection about 8 years ago but it was with casual names like, plain, futuristic, free hand, cartoony, dingbats etc not the most reliable or professional way of doing it.

Also I plan to print out my entire collection of fonts once I have catagorise them (displaying them in a a4 protective sleeve folder, what is the best program going around to help me do this, what other ways are there to display them once printed?

Any help / links to websites would be great
#2 Posted by awmasryexternal link on 2008-10-23 13:26:01 | quote | 125.160.*.1*
Please try and download this treatment

http://www.abstractfonts.com/forum/thread/35107

thanks

Bold is Neue Black
#3 Posted by site moderator neogrey on 2008-10-24 09:33:47 | quote | 87.97.*.5*
The ad that runs on this site's homepage

http://www.veenix.com/FontTools.html

Actually haven't used this, but I think it's good for making a specimen books. Just make sure you don't print your entire collection in ONE print file - most printers will choke because of the vast number of fonts. Print them in groups of 100-200 maximum.

Other way is simply routing the program to output to PDF instead of print file, so you can have all your fonts in handy PDF :)

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