Font Forum

Good morning Erwin, thanks for the reply. OK "vault" and "database", all this is fine. But what is the purpose of those tick boxes then? 24-12-_2021_10-19-30.jpg I would expect a predefined view which shows everything that is physically available in my defined font folders. At al...

From my point of view the synchronisation of folders containing fontfiles does not work - on my Windows 10 PC. I am using 3 folders that should be synched. All with the same settings like this 23-12-_2021_22-31-55.jpg Even changing the setting to manual does not change the fact that removing a subfo...

So it should also be updated if I remove a synced folder?
This is not true in my case at the moment.

Best, Wolfgang

can someone please explain what triggers the library count to be updated?
Can I force this? If so, by doing what?
Thanks for shedding some light on this for me.

Best, Wolfgang

Well then, thanks for figuring this out

Best, Wolfgang

While tagging glyphs in a font I sometimes happen to get two different colours displayed at the same time, as visible in the sample...
What is the reason for this? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for some advice!

Best, Wolfgang

OK. Not enough users did request this feature... Sad but true. The "printing option" was mentioned here before as well. And as "hlff" mentioned I also think there should be an inline solution for this. This would improve the workability of the software tremendously. Being able to...

Some other font managers have a mode where the preview text is basically the only thing displayed in the list of fonts, and you can then have multiple columns displayed: FontDisplayExample.jpg If you did that to the preview window, you could have something like the following (with just one column):...

Good morning Bhikkhu, thanks for pointing me to this thread, which I did not find right away. You are right, using tags can be a solution. But I am feeling more in the direction of those other forum members asking for a dedicated solution to compare fonts. I do find the sample panel really helpful. ...

Good evening,
I have just started working with MainType and I am wondering if there is a way to display the same text sample with two different fonts at the same time?

In order to single out alternatives or to find good matches.

Best,
Wolfgang