Since Monotype managed to bork Connect I am trying to migrate to Maintype. Issue is all my fonts are organized into folders on Connect. When I did “Collect for Output” it just dumped all fonts into one folder. So I have no organization in Maintype. Over 23k fonts in one giant folder. I can’t collect font folders since I can’t run Connect and hope they can fix the issue so I can somehow extract the folder structure from Connect, otherwise to reorganize all the fonts in Maintype with same folder structure will be nearly impossible. Anyone one have any ideas how to best organize stuff? I know it’s a big ask. Thanks.
Sorry to hear about the trouble with Connect. Unfortunately, if “Collect for Output” exported all fonts into one flat folder, MainType has no reliable way to reconstruct the original Connect folder structure from that alone.
The best option is to keep your existing folder structure on disk as the source of truth. In MainType, go to Library → Font Folders, add the top-level folder that contains your organized font folders, and enable:
- Index recursively
- Keep in sync
That way MainType will scan all subfolders and keep its groups aligned with the folder structure on disk.
So if you can get Connect working long enough to export or copy the fonts while preserving the original folders, that would be the ideal route. Once you have that folder tree outside Connect, MainType should be able to use it much more naturally.
If you only have the one giant folder with 23k fonts, then you will unfortunately need to rebuild some organization manually. In that case I would suggest starting with broader groups and using tags in MainType, rather than trying to recreate everything at once. You can gradually tag fonts by style, foundry, project, client, etc., and then use the Tag Search panel to quickly filter them.
These tutorials may help:
https://www.high-logic.com/font-manager/maintype/tutorials/quick-start-tutorial
https://www.high-logic.com/font-manager/maintype/tutorials/shared-font-libraries-for-teams
In short: if you can still extract the original folder structure from Connect, do that first. Then add the top-level folder to MainType with Keep in sync enabled. That will save you a lot of manual work.
Thanks for the reply. Monotype released a patch that fixed the issue. Now I can go folder by folder and export the fonts as separate folders and bring them to Maintype.
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