Description
FontBase is a free, fast font manager with an attractive interface, designed by designers for designers. It offers professional features to organize, view, and manage large font libraries, being a robust alternative to paid software.
Main Features
- Font Activation/Deactivation: Allows you to activate fonts with one click, without installing them on the system, reducing the impact on computer performance. Deactivated fonts do not consume resources, making it ideal for managing extensive collections. Activation works across all system applications.
- Modern Interface: Clean, intuitive, and customizable interface, with options for light, dark, or classic themes (additional themes available with Awesome subscription). Supports grid or list view, with color, size, alignment, and line height adjustments for previewing.
- OpenType Support: Offers the largest set of OpenType features among font software, allowing advanced control over ligatures, alternate characters, and stylistic sets.
- Collection Management: Create and manage custom collections or use predefined collections (e.g., recent fonts, favorites, Typekit). It is possible to activate entire collections or synchronize them across devices via services like Dropbox or Google Drive (Awesome feature).
- Integration with Google Fonts: All Google Fonts are pre-loaded and can be used offline as if they were local. Regular updates ensure access to the latest fonts.
- SuperSearch: Quick search by name, style, weight, contrast, or x-height, even in libraries with thousands of fonts. The search includes community tags and visual properties (advanced feature in Awesome).
- Advanced Preview: Allows styling text in H1, H2, and other elements in the preview tab, comparing fonts, viewing glyphs (with limited access in the free plan), and editing text live.
- Auto-activation: In the Awesome plan, missing fonts in Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign documents are automatically activated, streamlining the workflow.
- Frequent Updates: Receives regular updates (multiple times a month), with bug fixes and new features.
Additional Features
- Glyph Management: View and copy glyphs from any language or font (full access in Awesome plan).
- Watched Folders: Add "watched" folders that reflect changes in the file system in real-time, useful for cloud synchronization.
- Adobe Integration: Plugins for Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign (CC 2022 and later) with native support for M1, enhancing automatic font activation.
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Includes simple shortcuts to add fonts (F), folders (D), watched folders (W), and collections (C), along with support for quick text editing.
- Performance: Manages libraries with 10 or 10,000 fonts without speed loss, with quick import via drag-and-drop.