Inside Scoop Blog - Insider Software

What’s in a Font Name?

Font names can be cool, cute and even comical. But what does a font’s name actually say about it? In almost all cases, font names start with their family names and include style and metric terms to differentiate them from their siblings.

Adobe, Quark and Affinity Auto-Activation

To keep you creating at full speed, FontAgent supports font auto-activation in popular Adobe, Quark and Affinity applications.

Auto-Activation in QuarkXPress

FontAgent for Mac includes QuarkXPress XTension plugins, including one for Quark 2019, that automatically activate fonts in Quark documents as you open them in the popular graphic design and page layout application.

Command and Control of User Desktop Fonts

FontAgent Server includes a variety of customizable controls for syncing, displaying and managing fonts on client desktops.

Bondi Release of FontAgent Server

The Bondi Release of FontAgent Server adds more organization, configurability, control and consistency to the world’s only object-based font server and the most advanced solution for organizing, optimizing, distributing and tracking your fonts.

FontAgent 9.5 for Mac Highlights

The V9.5 release of FontAgent® for Macintosh adds support for macOS Catalina as well as faster activation, faster syncing and more robust tagging to the lengthy list of features added in Version 9.

macOS Compatibility

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

FontFlex Object-Based Technology

FontAgent Server's FontFlex architecture organizes font management into its basic elements—fonts, sets, users, groups, font licenses and enterprise directories. Those objects automatically interact with each other as you import fonts, add users and assign fonts to them.

Are Subscription Fonts Right for You?

After years of debate and speculation, subscription fonts have made their debut in the real world. But are they right for you and your organization? Do they provide everything you need or are they just part of a larger puzzle?

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.