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Type, Fonts, Faces and Cases

Many digital typography terms of today — including type, typeface, font and uppercase — trace back to the creation of metal type in Europe five hundred years ago.

The Benefits of OpenType

OpenType is a modern font-file format whose benefits include cross-platform support, simple file management, advanced typography, expanded glyph sets, and compatibility through open standards.

Tile View Magic in FontAgent

The Tile View in the FontAgent font manager provides compact previews of a font family or project set, and syncs with FontAgent's Compare, Player and Glyphs Views.

Organizing Your Fonts by Family

Organizing fonts into families is one of the many functions of a professional font manager. Learn how to use FontAgent to organize your font families the way you want.

Dealing with Duplicate Fonts

There are many different ways that apparently similar fonts can differ from each other. It’s important to understand those differences so you can decide which fonts to use in your creative projects.

How FontAgent Server Works for You

FontAgent Server integrates a variety of services into a comprehensive font management solution tailored to the requirements of IT, legal, business, marketing and creative departments.

Time is Running Out for Type 1 Fonts

The days of the venerated PostScript Type 1 font format are unfortunately drawing to a close. What can you do to update your Type 1 font collection so it works moving forward? FontAgent can help.

FontAgent 9.6 for Mac Highlights

The V9.6 release of FontAgent® for Mac adds support for macOS 11 Big Sur, Adobe Creative Cloud 2021, QuarkXPress 2020, as well as faster activation, faster syncing and more robust tagging to the lengthy list of features added in Version 9.

Explore Your Fonts with FontAgent

FontAgent reveals a treasure trove of metadata, metrics and descriptive details about your fonts. And it makes all that data available for you to search, sort and explore as you select fonts and create criteria for Smart Sets — on both Mac and Windows platforms.

macOS Compatibility

Learn which releases of Apple's macOS operating system are supported by various Insider font and asset management products.