Yep I wont go near extensis again, they run roughshod over your system. I spent 3 or 4 hours trying various font managers yesterday and I ended up where I started. Here's why: Fontbase: beta software, looks lovely could be great but buggy and doesn't seem to actually do much at the moment Nexus font: simple but very slow (i've got about 6000 and it would read all of them each time you switch views). Uninstalled it pretty quick Font explorer x pro: version 3.5 I had high hopes but gee it looks dated. Same baby blue colour as outlook 2007 complete with pixelly rounded corners. (This is software for designers, up your game folks!) I also found it slow. It crashed at one point. maintype: 5.1 (currently on 6): Much quicker than the rest, stable. They should get a slap on the wrists though for advertising it with adobe auto activation as a feature- so long as you're using CS6 or below. They hide the fact that they dont support it in CC. Main problem I've found is that activated fonts do not appear in premiere - I have to restart premiere to see them. This is the thread: fonts not available in premiere - Font Forum Someone from maintype answered quickly - great! (The answer is not great but at least they answered!!) Fontagent pro: I noticed they dropped the version number - because they don't develop it anymore. Its version 4. I used it for a few years, ditched it because the auto-activation stopped working, then got increasingly fed up with their tech support and lack of development. TypeDNA: I didn't bother installing this this time around. I had great hopes for this a few years ago, but seeing as the website still lists it as compatible with "windows 7, vista and xp" I didn't bother. I wrote to them asking if it was windows 10 compatible (which was actually just a foil for seeing if anyone was at home: guess what? no one was). So in summary nothing has changed since I wrote this 3 years ago: woeful state of font management on windows Maintype is the only one I would consider at the moment - and forget about auto-activation. Its not that pretty but it works very solidly and is actively developed at least.
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