Font Management
Making collections of typefaces in the font panel (if the application has one) is fine for a small number of fonts. But I happen to have over 150 megabytes of them, which is probably over 3,000 fonts, and those are just the ones I have installed. There’s no way I can drop all of those into my Fonts folder—my font list would be 12 feet long and my computer would probably drop dead. So I use a font management utility, which you probably do too if you’re reading this paragraph.
If you haven’t used a font management program yet, this is what it does: Instead of installing all of your fonts into the Fonts folder, which makes every font open all the time, you can store your fonts in a separate folder anywhere in your Home area that ...
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