Let's talk font organizing...

Many digi scrappers are total font freaks. I mean how many fonts does one need? Well frankly we need ALOT. And since we need a lot of fonts we need a way to organize them. For the last few years I used a free program called The Font Thing. It was a great program with a great price. But unfortunately the program hasn't been updated and it does not recognize the new Open Type of fonts. I embarked on a search to find a current program that would replace The Font Thing and I came upon Main Type by High-Logic. At first I was dismayed by the $49 cost. But in thinking it over, I realized that I spend many, many hours in my digi scrapping hobby and $49 is just a drop in the bucket in the total scheme of things. (Think $$$ for Photoshop, Actions, Kits, Classes, etc.) So I decided to purchase it and spent the whole weekend organizing my fonts. Taking Stacey's Typography class over at Digital Scrapbooking Artisian Guild certainly helped me get in the mindset of how to organize my fonts to enhance my titles and journaling of my layouts. I was in total shock as to how many "groups" I ended up having. No longer am I just separating between Serif, Sans Serif and Decorative. To give you an idea...here is a list of my font groups:

All Caps-Decorative

All Caps-San Serif

All Caps-Serif

Alpha Dings

Alpha dings-baby and children

Alpha dings-beach_summer

Alpha Dings-floral

Alpha Dings-hearts

Alpha Dings-school

Bar Codes

Brush

Caligraphy

Chunky-Decorative

Chunky-Sans Serif

Chunky-Serif

ClickArt Handwritten Fonts

Clogged

Decorative-Double Lined

Decorative-Flourish-Curlicues

Decorative-Fun

Decorative-Journaling

Decorative-Mix and Match

Dingbats

Dross

Grunge

Handwritten

Handwritten-Pea fonts

Historical-Gothic-Oldstyle

Holiday-Christmas

Holiday-Easter

Holiday-Halloween

Holiday-patriotic

Holiday-StPatricksDay

Holiday-Thanksgiving

Holiday-Winter

Keyboard

Outline fonts

Sans Serif

Sci-Fi and alien

Script

Serif

Shapes

Stencil

Stitching Fonts

Stylish-Streamlined and Elegant

Typewriter Styles

My final category is called ZZ-Foundries. In here I have copies of CK Fonts, 2 Peas Fonts, PC Fonts, Blue Vinyl Fonts, etc.

Just knowing that all my fonts are organized and easy to be found when I need them just makes me smile. I can't wait to see if this organization makes a difference in my scrapbooking!