Serif / Sans listed incorrectly
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2024 6:14 am
Complete newb here, I just downloaded MainType earlier today to give it a try. I intend to watch some tutorials, the whole reason I want it is to sort fonts in to easily definable categories that I can use to quickly find what I need. Between The system and programs I've installed on my system (plus a few I handpicked for odd projects) It says I have 750 fonts installed. My FIRST goal is to uninstall a few hundred generic sans fonts and a few hundred generic serif fonts that I don't need. To do that, I'd like to create columns like license type, lower case a, e, upper case I and etc. to sort things quickly, and ditch all of the repetitive nonsense. I'd also love a column that showed me if the source was Windows or LibreOffice, or GIMP or some publishing suite or other. I'd also love a column to quickly sort all of the crap that doesn't even HAVE English fonts, or where English/Latin isn't the main font.
So question # 1) is.. how do I do that?
Then step 2 is to throw in all of the new fonts I WANT to use in future projects and sort them in to styles, like Germanic, handwriting, Eastern European.. Celtic.. etc. How do I do that? Keep in mind, I have the free version. I see lots of features and settings in here, but so far I keep being told that I don't have the pro version by the software, and I can't figure out how to do any of this.
Which brings me to the main point. Before I do THAT, I'm noticing that in the fonts that are already installed in my system, a sprinkling of the fonts are listed in the wrong serif / sans view. I can't seem to figure out how to edit the view or move the fonts using tags or anything.. so how DO I move those fonts that MainType has sorted in to the wrong category.. er, view.. by default? I don't want to start adding anything else in, or whittling anything else down until I'm sure that the currently listed stuff is sorted correctly.
Thanks for any help!
So question # 1) is.. how do I do that?
Then step 2 is to throw in all of the new fonts I WANT to use in future projects and sort them in to styles, like Germanic, handwriting, Eastern European.. Celtic.. etc. How do I do that? Keep in mind, I have the free version. I see lots of features and settings in here, but so far I keep being told that I don't have the pro version by the software, and I can't figure out how to do any of this.
Which brings me to the main point. Before I do THAT, I'm noticing that in the fonts that are already installed in my system, a sprinkling of the fonts are listed in the wrong serif / sans view. I can't seem to figure out how to edit the view or move the fonts using tags or anything.. so how DO I move those fonts that MainType has sorted in to the wrong category.. er, view.. by default? I don't want to start adding anything else in, or whittling anything else down until I'm sure that the currently listed stuff is sorted correctly.
Thanks for any help!