Typeface 4

Name: Typeface 4
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Author: Floor Steeg

Your Favorite Font Manager

Only for Mac

Free · In‑App Purchases

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4+
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Graphics & Design
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Floor Steeg
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EN
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50.5
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Mac

New in Typeface 4: detailed metadata list overview, custom sorting, partial families, character export, restoring activated fonts and more! —— Typeface is a beautiful font manager that helps you pick the perfect font for your designs. Effortlessly organize your library with flexible tags and improve your design workflow by visually browsing through live font previews. Good typography is one of the most important aspects of design, but finding the font that conveys just the right emotion can be a difficult task — especially if you're not sure yet what you're looking for. With a minimal interface and total focus on your fonts Typeface makes choosing fonts a delightful experience. —— Free limited trial. One time in-app purchase to unlock all current features + 12 months of PRO updates. No subscription, yours forever. —— FOCUS ON YOUR FONTS • Perfectly rendered previews • Live customization of preview text, size, colors and more • Intuitive & minimal UI that doesn't distract • Light & Dark theme for day and night IN-DEPTH ORGANIZATION • Easy to use & flexible tagging system • Powerful search & filters • Detailed metadata list overview [PRO] • In-place font activation & deactivation [PRO] IMPROVE YOUR WORKFLOW • Collect font candidates using the Quick Collection • Review & refine your selection • Switch fonts in leading design apps directly from the app [PRO] • Export a PDF to share with colleagues and clients REVEAL EVERY DETAIL • View & export unicode characters [PRO] • Preview full body text layouts [PRO] • Inspect OpenType font features [PRO] • Fine-tune variable fonts [PRO] AND MUCH MORE • Sync imported folders and subfolders [PRO] • 5000+ free fonts from the Google Fonts catalog, including variable fonts [PRO] • Support for ttf, otf, dfont, ttc, woff and PostScript Type 1 font suitcase • Migrate sets and collections from FontExplorer X / Suitcase Fusion / Font Book • Temporary font activation [PRO] • Group fonts by family • Filter fonts by character support • Auto font style classification • Adjust letter s p a c i n g • Left/right/center alignment • Metrics overlay • Dynamic previews • Advanced OpenType support [PRO] • Export & import tag backups • Drag and drop font export [PRO] • Convenient keyboard shortcuts • Import Adobe fonts • Auto activation [PRO] • Tagged and Untagged meta-tags • Background mode • Font context info [PRO] • Quick multi tagging [PRO] • Find & remove duplicate fonts [PRO] • Compare fonts using A/B font overlays —— TYPEFACE PRO The Typeface free download provides limited functionality to try out the app. Get PRO to unlock all these features: • Import your own fonts and folders • Persistent & temporary font activation • Font characters overview • Body text layout previews • Detailed metadata list overview • OpenType feature inspection • Custom preview colors • Font Switch • Family Editor • Variable fonts tuning • Find & remove duplicate fonts • Multi tagging • Advanced filters • Variable Google Fonts • Font context info + All PRO features released in upcoming 12 months Typeface PRO is a one time purchase to unlock all current features. In addition, you'll get new features released in the upcoming 12 months for free. After 12 months you can extend your license to receive new updates & functionality. Extending is optional — you can continue to use the app and all your permanently unlocked features, even after 12 months. No subscription, no auto renewals. —— Check out typefaceapp.com for more info, handy tips & support.

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Font Display, Organization And Use Are A Breeze!
11/12/2018

DorothyAlma520
I couldn’t be more pleased with this font management app! As a Graphic Designer, one of the projects I work on regularlly is for apparel designs/ecommerce DTG or screen printed products. Every design has to be completely different from the next to ensure originality. Typeface enables me to load an enormous collection of fonts with ease, categorize them in a way that works best for me and then to see them in a snap. I love that I can see exactly how each typeset word or sentence will look before choosing the best font. I also cannot say enough about the customer service. When I’m really stuck and cannot figure out how to do something, I simply send an email with my questions or concerns and receive an informed response shortly afterward.The value you receive with this app is unbeatable in my opinion. I asked several other graphic design colleagues who recommended this product to me. It’s no wonder they chose Typeface, it’s a fantastic app!
Font Display, Organization And Use Are A Breeze!
11/12/2018

DorothyAlma520

I couldn’t be more pleased with this font management app! As a Graphic Designer, one of the projects I work on regularlly is for apparel designs/ecommerce DTG or screen printed products. Every design has to be completely different from the next to ensure originality. Typeface enables me to load an enormous collection of fonts with ease, categorize them in a way that works best for me and then to see them in a snap. I love that I can see exactly how each typeset word or sentence will look before choosing the best font. I also cannot say enough about the customer service. When I’m really stuck and cannot figure out how to do something, I simply send an email with my questions or concerns and receive an informed response shortly afterward.The value you receive with this app is unbeatable in my opinion. I asked several other graphic design colleagues who recommended this product to me. It’s no wonder they chose Typeface, it’s a fantastic app!
Okay, But Has Shortfalls
06/20/2019

Starfleet Vette
If you have a large font archive (thousands of fonts) this app effortlessly displays them quickly, even from a network location. The use of tags is a great way of grouping fonts with similar characteristics. Unfortunately tag combinations are strictly OR’d instead of optionally AND’d, limiting the potential power of tag filtering. Auto-activation of fonts is supported which is a nice feature at this price point. The interface has a few quirks to get accustomed to, but for now I cannot give more than 3 stars due to several fonts not previewing in list view despite glyphs being assigned to characters and other apps such as Font Book and Finder do show previews for them. Even system fonts such as Apple Braille, Apple Color Emoji, and Zapf Dingbats do not preview in Typeface but they do in Font Book and Finder. Thus, the effectiveness of searching for a font is reduced because you cannot see all the fonts while browsing. (You can see the font when previewing the characters, but not in the list view so it takes more time.) “Undo” functionality is limited, however the developer is great at replying to inquiries/critique and listens to suggestions for improvement. Adding support for dynamic waterfall text like Font Book and a "Find Similar Fonts" function like Suitcase Fusion would easily put this app at 5+ stars for me.

Developer Response
Thanks for the feedback! You can combine the sidebar tags (OR) with the search filter (AND) to create complex queries (enter # in the search bar to get auto-completion). Typeface renders your entered preview text, so if a font does not support the characters you enter then those characters cannot be rendered either. I'll investigate ways to make this more useful for fonts like Apple Braille and Apple Color Emoji, such that they'll preview random characters those fonts support.
Okay, But Has Shortfalls
06/20/2019

Starfleet Vette

If you have a large font archive (thousands of fonts) this app effortlessly displays them quickly, even from a network location. The use of tags is a great way of grouping fonts with similar characteristics. Unfortunately tag combinations are strictly OR’d instead of optionally AND’d, limiting the potential power of tag filtering. Auto-activation of fonts is supported which is a nice feature at this price point. The interface has a few quirks to get accustomed to, but for now I cannot give more than 3 stars due to several fonts not previewing in list view despite glyphs being assigned to characters and other apps such as Font Book and Finder do show previews for them. Even system fonts such as Apple Braille, Apple Color Emoji, and Zapf Dingbats do not preview in Typeface but they do in Font Book and Finder. Thus, the effectiveness of searching for a font is reduced because you cannot see all the fonts while browsing. (You can see the font when previewing the characters, but not in the list view so it takes more time.) “Undo” functionality is limited, however the developer is great at replying to inquiries/critique and listens to suggestions for improvement. Adding support for dynamic waterfall text like Font Book and a "Find Similar Fonts" function like Suitcase Fusion would easily put this app at 5+ stars for me.
Developer Response 06/25/2019
Thanks for the feedback! You can combine the sidebar tags (OR) with the search filter (AND) to create complex queries (enter # in the search bar to get auto-completion). Typeface renders your entered preview text, so if a font does not support the characters you enter then those characters cannot be rendered either. I'll investigate ways to make this more useful for fonts like Apple Braille and Apple Color Emoji, such that they'll preview random characters those fonts support.
I wanted to like it
02/03/2017

mscphotography
I am a home user and have a hard time justifying a $100 font manager. That said, I have around 1300 fonts installed and was hoping for an easy way to activate and deactivate by collection. Font Book for me runs extremely slowly, even though I have no problem in programs like Photoshop CC and Lightroom. Typeface will only run as fast as Font Book. I spent a lot of time making collections in Font Book and while Typeface will read them, they must be activated for Typeface to show them in their collection. If you have deactivated the fonts to speed up your system, then you can only reactivate them by going back into Font Book itself, or remember what fonts are in each collection and individually reactivate them. I deactivated a collection in Typeface, and when I went to Font Book, all the fonts had been moved out of the collection entirely, so now I have to rebuild it.The filters are not that great, either, unfortunately. The Script option pulls up nothing that is actually a script, but fonts like vintage typewriter fonts and Marker Felt. I was really hoping for more. Perhaps if I had less fonts and wanted to keep them all activated all the time it would be better for me, but I think I just need a more robust program.

Developer Response
Thanks for the feedback! Make sure to update to version 2 which improved a lot on font (de)activation. All your fonts stay visible in the app and no need to switch to Font Book :)
I wanted to like it
02/03/2017

mscphotography

I am a home user and have a hard time justifying a $100 font manager. That said, I have around 1300 fonts installed and was hoping for an easy way to activate and deactivate by collection. Font Book for me runs extremely slowly, even though I have no problem in programs like Photoshop CC and Lightroom. Typeface will only run as fast as Font Book. I spent a lot of time making collections in Font Book and while Typeface will read them, they must be activated for Typeface to show them in their collection. If you have deactivated the fonts to speed up your system, then you can only reactivate them by going back into Font Book itself, or remember what fonts are in each collection and individually reactivate them. I deactivated a collection in Typeface, and when I went to Font Book, all the fonts had been moved out of the collection entirely, so now I have to rebuild it.The filters are not that great, either, unfortunately. The Script option pulls up nothing that is actually a script, but fonts like vintage typewriter fonts and Marker Felt. I was really hoping for more. Perhaps if I had less fonts and wanted to keep them all activated all the time it would be better for me, but I think I just need a more robust program.
Developer Response 01/18/2019
Thanks for the feedback! Make sure to update to version 2 which improved a lot on font (de)activation. All your fonts stay visible in the app and no need to switch to Font Book :)
Best app for font library management hands down!
09/22/2024

blake10001
I've tried a dozen or more apps to manage my large library of fonts on my Mac. They all sucked in one way or another. Most were bad because they were so slow to load and render fonts. If you have more than 1000 fonts, half the apps I tried just failed to open and display.This app is fast and slick. The UI is intuitive and easy to use. It's by far the best font app for MacOS I've ever used. It handles my tens of thousands of fonts easily, instantly activates fonts (including my designs apps automatically picking up the newly activated fonts without having to restart), and has nice organizational features. I love it.

Developer Response
Great, thanks Blake! I'll make sure Typeface stays fast and slick 🦊
Best app for font library management hands down!
09/22/2024

blake10001

I've tried a dozen or more apps to manage my large library of fonts on my Mac. They all sucked in one way or another. Most were bad because they were so slow to load and render fonts. If you have more than 1000 fonts, half the apps I tried just failed to open and display.This app is fast and slick. The UI is intuitive and easy to use. It's by far the best font app for MacOS I've ever used. It handles my tens of thousands of fonts easily, instantly activates fonts (including my designs apps automatically picking up the newly activated fonts without having to restart), and has nice organizational features. I love it.
Developer Response 07/04/2023
Great, thanks Blake! I'll make sure Typeface stays fast and slick 🦊

• Adjusted visual appearance for macOS Tahoe • Updated to Unicode 17 • Improved Japanese localization • Support Auto Activation and Font Switch on future InDesign versions Enjoy!

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