Description
A designer's machine easily holds thousands of fonts. Install them all and apps start slowly while font menus scroll forever; don't, and you're hunting down files, installing and uninstalling every time you need one.
FontBase takes a different route. Fonts stay in your own folders and activate with one click, no installing, then deactivate just as easily, so the system font folder stays clean. Every font is laid out in one window with the same sample text, and size, line height, color and background are right there, so comparing faces takes a glance.
It's free on Windows, macOS and Linux, and Google Fonts is built in, so you can preview and activate over a thousand free fonts without downloading anything.
Activate without installing: fonts stay where they are and switch on or off as needed, including a whole project's set at once.
Side-by-side preview: every font with the same sample text, with custom text, size, line height, alignment and color.
Collections and favorites: group fonts by project or style, star the ones you use most, and see recent additions.
Watched folders: add a font folder and new fonts show up in the list automatically.
Glyph view: browse every glyph and OpenType feature of a font and copy individual characters.
Google Fonts built in: browse and activate the Google Fonts library without downloading files first.
FontBase takes a different route. Fonts stay in your own folders and activate with one click, no installing, then deactivate just as easily, so the system font folder stays clean. Every font is laid out in one window with the same sample text, and size, line height, color and background are right there, so comparing faces takes a glance.
It's free on Windows, macOS and Linux, and Google Fonts is built in, so you can preview and activate over a thousand free fonts without downloading anything.
Features
Activate without installing: fonts stay where they are and switch on or off as needed, including a whole project's set at once.
Side-by-side preview: every font with the same sample text, with custom text, size, line height, alignment and color.
Collections and favorites: group fonts by project or style, star the ones you use most, and see recent additions.
Watched folders: add a font folder and new fonts show up in the list automatically.
Glyph view: browse every glyph and OpenType feature of a font and copy individual characters.
Google Fonts built in: browse and activate the Google Fonts library without downloading files first.
