Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 15 hours ago

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Are your fonts a mess?

In this video, I’ll show you the best way to organise your font library and use FontBase, one of the best free font management tools out there.

Learn a streamlined way to organise your fonts, how to set up watched folders, avoid duplicates, activate fonts cleanly, and streamline your workflow for good.

Whether you’re working in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop, managing your fonts the right way can save you time and headaches.

Plus, I’ll walk you through key FontBase features, tips for better organisation, and how I manage thousands of fonts in my own professional workflow.

Let’s jump in and see how this works!

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TOPICS COVERED:

00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:02 Why Font Management Matters
00:01:49 FontBase Intro
00:02:22 How I Organise My Fonts
00:03:42 Organise & Use FontBase to Preview
00:03:43 Adding Fonts (Watched Folder)
00:06:13 Previewing Fonts
00:07:16 Google Fonts (integrated)
00:07:39 Activate a Font
00:08:10 Autoactivate Folders
00:09:08 Font Pinning
00:09:24 Font Playground
00:09:52 Favourites
00:10:14 Create a Collection Folder
00:11:23 Cloud Sync (with Cloud Folders)
00:12:23 Package Fonts
00:11:24 Showing It In Action
00:15:02 Subscription
00:15:40 Super-search (paid)
00:16:22 Font Auto-activation (paid)
00:16:48 Crowd Tags (paid)
00:17:08 Font Glyphs (paid)
00:16:26 Outro



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If you would like to join the GDS design school community, where we chat about design, give each other feedback and where I set design challenges.

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