FontAgent Includes 2100+ Free Fonts
With the introduction of FontAgent® 8.1, Insider has increased the size of its open source font collection by more than fifty percent to more than 2100 fonts from the Google library. We've used FontAgent's font integrity engine to verify and validate the fonts, and eliminate duplicate and corrupt ones—so you can depend on them to render and print properly.More
FontAgent Terminology
FontAgent adds a layer of lingo to font and typography terminology. Here's a list of some terms that describe font management functionality in FontAgent servers and clients.More
Font and Typography Terminology
Font management has a unique and specific language all its own. Here is a sampling of terms you might encounter when working with fonts and FontAgent software.More
How Open Should You Be to Open Source Fonts?
For projects that don’t require the flexibility of full-featured commercial fonts, or if you simply don’t want to deal with licensing complexities, open source fonts offer a hassle-free alternative. With new open source typefaces appearing all the time, the open source option will continue to be a decent solution for many design and web projects.More
Reality Check: Are Your Fonts Properly Licensed?
Font foundries are enforcing the terms of their licenses in court and the time is clearly over for having casual attitudes about font licensing. A self-audit is a good idea for users and organizations who have font collections with unknown license terms.More
Font File Format Bingo
Chances are that your font collection includes fonts in PostScript, TrueType, OpenType and dfont file formats. But you probably don’t need to manage every file format for each of your fonts. Whatever you choose to do, FontAgent will manage the format(s) you choose to import.More
Using Metadata to Find Fonts Fast
Explore all the metadata available in FontAgent find the right fonts for your creative projects. You’ll see how having all that metadata at your fingertips revolutionizes your creative workflow.More
When Do You Have Too Many Fonts?
Every day, we talk to FontAgent users who have font collections of all sizes. Many users have tens of thousands of fonts, and there are some who have more than 100,000 fonts. So how many fonts is too many?More
WYSIWYG Problems with Old PostScript Fonts
In most cases, when you select a font, your Mac apps display it correctly. But with many old PostScript Type 1 fonts, that’s not always the case.More