Organise Fonts for Design Work

[blamydistasio]

So I'm doing some commercial work and have a whole load of fonts that I've either bought or have permission to use commercially mixed in with a whole bunch of fonts that I have just downloaded for personal use.

I'm using Adobe CS5, and across all programs am looking for a way to organise these fonts into "Commercial" and "Personal" files so that I don't have to keep checking my references to find out where I've got them from. Like anyone in design I have thousands of fonts installed so it certainly gets a bit tedious!

Any ideas?

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[firedept]

I use FontExplorer X Pro for all my fonts. It also comes with plugins for Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop, Incopy and Quark XPress. I have been using it for some time now and I find it works great for organization. You can try it for free I believe for 30 days. Only cost $79. Another well used one is Suitcase Fusion which is quite favored here at MacRumors. Check them out as I am sure they will fit your needs.

 

[blamydistasio]

Resolved!

Thanks for your advice. I've actually gone a different route though:

Using the FontBook application already on my Mac, I've created a new "Collection" called PERSONAL, dragged everything that is not for commercial use into this collection and then disabled this collection temporarily while working on my projects.

Doneskies.

 

[aaron.lee2006]

I wouldn't touch Font Book ever for font management. FontExplorer X is the best solution by far.