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FontAgent for Mac

Font management and repair utility.

$99.00
In English
3.7
Based on 49 user rates

FontAgent overview

FontAgent is a revolutionary release of the one of the world’s smartest font managers. The first thing you’ll notice is its all-new, stunning interface that features crisp font previews, simple controls, and powerful set management. Activate, deactivate, find fonts, change colors, customize text, and resize UI panes in seconds. It’s font management done right your way.

Features
  • Powerful New Font Viewers - Preview your fonts in your choice of text and colors using FontAgent’s redesigned Player, Compare and Glyph views. View font slide shows, waterfalls, paragraphs, comparisons and glyph sets. Drag character glyphs directly into your documents. Select the right font for every passage, heading and project.
  • Create a Centralized Font Library - Just drag your fonts into FontAgent to verify their integrity and add them to your centralized library along with 1350+ free Google fonts. As you import fonts, FontAgent keeps a full history of your new additions and archives your growing library to the Cloud for safekeeping.
  • Find Fonts Faster - Enter a search term and instantly find fonts whose names, properties, metadata or comments match it. Want to sharpen your focus? Use Smart Search to perform complex searches in seconds, and save them as Smart Sets that auto-update as you add fonts to your collection.
  • Instantly Share and Sync Fonts - Welcome to the future of font management: sharing and syncing fonts through the Cloud no server license or administration required.
  • More Metadata than Ever - FontAgent 7 discovers more font metadata than ever. Select a font or set and view its properties and metadata in FontAgent’s right sidebar. View font names, formats, styles, metrics, filenames, locations, activation, ratings, comments everything you need to know about your fonts.
  • Explore Your Fonts Using Table View - Use FontAgent’s Table View is a built-in spreadsheet that lets you quickly explore and compare font metadata. Click a table column to sort your currently selected fonts by their traits, foundries, sizes, file formats and version numbers. Activate and rate your fonts with a click.
  • Manage Subscription and System Fonts - Manage system fonts and subscription fonts from services like Adobe TypeKit and Monotype SkyFonts automatically. Preview and add them to sets just like all your other fonts. With FontAgent’s open architecture, all your fonts are at your fingertips.
  • Simple, Efficient Font Activation - Click slide switches to activate and deactivate fonts and sets manually. Auto-activate fonts as you open documents in Adobe Creative Cloud and Suite apps including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and InCopy as well as QuarkXpress, Microsoft Office and a world of other popular Mac apps.
  • Print and Export Your Fonts - Create hardcopy and PDF font samples for sharing with clients and co-workers. With a few clicks, produce waterfalls, paragraphs, logotype, character sets whatever you want. Export fonts into organized folder hierarchies for archiving or sending to service bureaus.
  • Flexible Licensing Choices - Ready to revolutionize your creative workflow? Try the new FontAgent for 30 days on your own or with your team. When you’re ready to purchase a license, choose between a cost-effective subscription or a traditional stand-alone license whichever you prefer.

What’s new in version 10.0.0

  • Native Apple M1 chip support for 10x faster previews and auto-activation
  • Support and optimization for macOS 12 Monterey
  • An all-new Sets Manager and Membership Tracker
  • Improved hierarchical set export
  • Auto-activation support for Adobe 2022 and Quark 2021
  • Duplicate and similar font detector
  • Tight integration with Adobe Fonts
  • Usability improvements throughout the release
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FontAgent for Mac

$99.00
In English
Version 10.0.0
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2.0
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3.0
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3.0
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1.0
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2.0

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3.7

(162 Reviews of FontAgent)

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frans-3
frans-3
May 31 2022
10.0.0
0.0
May 31 2022
0.0
Version: 10.0.0
Simply not been able to activate this after purchasing. Also the 'Upgrade' button in the app brings you to a website of your account that has no way to upgrade. Support could not fix the problem with activation. So useless.
Solutionscts
Solutionscts
May 31 2022
9.7.0
0.0
May 31 2022
0.0
Version: 9.7.0
Font Agent 10 has been out for some time now. C'Mon MU - get with the program!
Macmuser
Macmuser
May 4 2021
9.6.2
0.0
May 4 2021
0.0
Version: 9.6.2
It struck me today that I have been using FontAgent for a year and I've had nothing to make me reconsider my decision to switch to it. Over the last 30+ years I've use various font handlers, from Font/DA Mover, Suitcase, MasterJuggler, Font Reserve (the absolute best), FontXplorer and so on. I ran with the latter for a while but it was too buggy with my 30+ year old font library so returned to Suitcase after and for a decade or so until I got fed up with their annual licence request. Apple'sFontBook is an embarrassment that should have been addressed decades ago for the professional designers who use a library of fonts in their work. On loading FontAgent I realised I should have tried it years ago. This year Adobe will stop supporting PostScript fonts which makes the bulk of my multi-thousands font library. Luckily I am at the end of my active designer career but FontAgent still supports them, as do the applications I use. FontAgent also supplies and supports far more design packages than Suitcase, et al, which seem to be far more geared to Adobe's applications (than they used to be) at the expense of others such as QuarkXPress for example. Don't get me wrong, I like Suitcase which I always preferred over the others but as a better option I'd choose FontAgent any day.
Miner
Miner
Nov 15 2020
9.6.0
5.0
Nov 15 2020
5.0
Version: 9.6.0
Finally: a support-update rather than a paid version-upgrade for a Font Management app. Just for that decency alone, FontAgent an Insidersoftware deserve high praise. Thanks!
Cookie08
Cookie08
Sep 12 2019
9.1.2
4.5
Sep 12 2019
4.5
Version: 9.1.2
Currently is the best even works with other apps not needing a plugin ie pages word etc and fast the others biggies don't work properly outside of Adobe etc and smoothly with Catalina OS
Maclover1-1
Maclover1-1
Jun 16 2023
10.0.0
5.0
Jun 16 2023
5.0
Version: 10.0.0
Miner
Miner
Nov 15 2020
5.0
Nov 15 2020
5.0
Version: null
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Geoff6
Jul 2 2019
1.5
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dbblanchette
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4.5
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4.5
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Jer
Sep 27 2018
2.0
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Cookie08
Jun 19 2018
4.5
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Jun 15 2017
1.0
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neartheredrocks
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Jimmy-D
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fontguy9
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Mr_Mark
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5.0
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5.0
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4.5
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3.0
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3.0
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3.0
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