How has Windows font management sucked? Well, the number one issue has been that for whatever reasons, Windows font management applications have not had feature parity with their Mac brethren. (OS X even has a lightweight font management capability with a built-in utility called Font Book – which is nice for average to middleweight users, but most publishing professionals still need something more heavy-duty.) If you have thousands of fonts it’s pretty much essential, in my opinion. Here’s a brief rant on what font management is, how it has fallen down on Windows, some speculation on why, comments on recent improvements, and a batch of specific feature requests.įirst, what is font management? A font management application allows you to preview fonts without having them active on your system, create groups of fonts, search your fonts by various criteria, and activate/deactivate individual fonts, families or user-defined groups on the fly. How, why, and can it be improved? Recent developments offer some hope for the future. Historically, Windows font management has well, sucked. I recently moved to a new laptop, which reminded me of a painful issue as I migrated my data and fonts and reinstalled my applications.

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