Fontbase, excellent font manager for designers

For those who are dedicated to graphic design, or for those who simply like to leave their desks with the best design touches, one of the first aspects to take into account is that of the fonts or fonts. And this is something that GNU / Linux has not had too many options in the past, although luckily the trend seems to be reversing by leaps and bounds as shown by tools of the style of fontbase, which we will deal with today.

It is a free and multiplatform app, with a very attractive and organized design interface that offers a fast and agile operation as well as extremely stable. Its main window shows us a side panel from which we can view all system fonts and where we have access to three sections or tabs, where we can also search for new fonts or start organizing them in the way we think is most convenient, in order to be able to manage them quickly and easily.

The first of these sections is'Organize', where we can see the fonts that are already part of our system and in turn organize our favorites, highlighting them one by one or in collections. But this is where we can also activate the sources, just by adding them to a folder and selecting the 'Activate' option, available in the contextual menu. In the tab 'Collect' we can search and install fonts from several of the different services that offer fonts, such as Google. On the other hand, in the third and last of these tabs, called 'To find out', we can receive notifications when new fonts appear to be downloaded from the web.

Fontbase is, as we mentioned at the beginning, a multiplatform application since it has versions for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, and its download occupies about 54 MB although on the website we only have a package for Ubuntu.

Website: fontbase