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Linotype Font Explorer X is a godsend for those of us with too many fonts, and too little time. I’m a switcher, and with OS X came the ability to use Truetype fonts in all your applications. So, I was able to use the oodles of fonts I’ve collected over the years. The application itself kind of reminds me of iTunes. It’s obvious they took a lot of ideas from it and applied to fonts what iTunes does for music.

A stroke of genius, I think. It has a lot of great features that allow you to create groups, and “smart sets” (see iTunes smart playlists) that group fonts you tag with certain keywords. They’ve even got a built-in online font store (now why didn’t I think of that?) It’s super easy to activate and deactivate fonts and groups, and it’s almost fun to browse and preview your fonts.

One nice feature that I really love in the preview is the ability to drag the preview into another app as a PNG image. It makes it easy to use for comps without installing the font, or e-mail a set of previews to clients.

With Linotype Font Explorer X, you can finally get in control of your massive font library, and all for free! Thank you, Linotype. Now, can you port this over to PC like Apple did for iTunes? Please?