How do you organise your fonts

[dogbone]

Funnily enough I just organised them yesterday. 1200. I keep them in a rough classifications with some for current jobs.

 

[iGav]

I'm currently sorting through my archives, with the dream being that by the end of this year.

17 months later... the misery continues.

 

[Lau]

17 months later... the misery continues.

Slacker.

 

[shecky]

17 months later... the misery continues.

i'm right there with you.

 

[Colonel Panik]

I don't organise my fonts. Linotype does. It's great. You don't still organise your music by hand, do you?

Seriously though, an online database reference would be great. Why fonts were never created with a meta file containing all the relevant info (serif/san-serif, grotesque, etc.) is beyond me.

 

[iGav]

Slacker.

Almost as long as it takes for you to reply to my emails.

Slacker. ;-)

 

[Europe calling]

I have them organised in FontExplorer in categories by kind: Serif, Non-serif, Fantasy (for symbols etc.), scripts and bitmap fonts.
This is initially all done by hand, and yes it can be a lot of work but it pays off. You really get to know what you have, and now helps me find fonts with a specific character very quickly.
FontExplorer is like iTunes for fonts. Main folders are used for categories above. Other than that I also keep collections (like playlists in iTunes) based on the fonts used per client.
It's what you personally like best of course.