Organizing Fonts

[tommylogic]

Well.. Mac's are not secure. Its a MYTH !!! article here

Mac OS X doesn't stand out as particularly more secure than the competition, according to Secunia. Of the 36 advisories issued in 2003-2004, 61 percent could be exploited across the Internet and 32 percent enabled attackers to take over the system.

and then there's the actual shut up or put up contest to hack the system. You can read about that here...
Gone in 2 minutes: Mac gets hacked first in contest

Anyhow.. about the fonts. I'm also using ATM. I haven't found anything better really out there, although it's no longer offered with the old Adobe packages.

Most important, I keep them all on a separate drive. I organize mine by collection sets and by style, essential scripts, etc. I have the system minimums, then expand from there based on use..

Keeping them on a separate drive maintains system speed. You may see a lot of problems on a PC with too many enabled. Hope this helps.

[zumojuice]

Macs are not more secure, there are just less of them so most hackers can't be bothered.. why target 5% when you can hit 95% or whatever the mac/pc ratio is these days..

back to the question, Organise your fonts in usable categories for what you do. Fact is, you'll normally have a idea of the font you want , or its style. So group by things like: script, handwritten, display only (decorative), clean sans, slab serifs, humanist, modern, retro, - they are all optional and stuff. It may be worth looking at a font site like dafont.com, litterally just to see the categories as a start point.

I've known people who sorted by clean sans & serifs, so they had 40 typefaces (20 each way) for the key jobs. Another person had then sorted by job, ie - book, display, poster