- #FONT BOOK AND RIGHTFONT FULL#
- #FONT BOOK AND RIGHTFONT TRIAL#
- #FONT BOOK AND RIGHTFONT PLUS#
- #FONT BOOK AND RIGHTFONT MAC#
The subscription is $200 a year, but you get access to the full Monotype library, which is several thousand fonts. The big downside of the Monotype subscription is that if you aren’t connected to the internet, you don’t have access to their fonts or your own fonts you’ve uploaded to your library on their website. So Indesign might be telling me the font is unsynced, but when I go to the website, it shows it is synced, but then I have to dig down deeper to see that the OTF version was used in the doc, but the TT version is the one I synced.
In some cases Monotype offers you both the TT and OTF versions of a font, and then it will random unsync one of those. I’ve also found that it randomly unsyncs fonts. When I open documents, the Monotype app will give warnings about which fonts need to be synced, then I have to go on the website and flip them on.
#FONT BOOK AND RIGHTFONT MAC#
My mac would hang if I tried to do too many fonts at the same time, so I did it in batches of 30 or so. Then I opened the Monotype app and website to drag and drop everything over. I used it to compile all the TT and OTF I already owned into a folder. I can create new categories through My Library on the Monotype website, and I’ll get around to that eventually.įontxplorer was helpful in identifying all the postscript fonts in my system, so I used that to determine which fonts I needed to leave behind. So, all the work I put into that over the years is lost. I couldn’t find a way to move my Fontxplorer categories over to the Monotype app.
#FONT BOOK AND RIGHTFONT PLUS#
Or I take the $1200 and get a subscription for 6 years, to those fonts, plus all the other thousands in the library. That’s $1200 just for the complete families of those 3.
At very least, I needed to replace my postscript versions of Helvetica, Futura, and Avenir. The subscription is $200 a year, but you get access to the full Monotype library, which is several thousand fonts… the official, real versions of the fonts… not some freebie buggy incomplete knockoffs with eccentric licensing terms. But I stuck with it because I had a large number of postscript fonts, and those are going to have to be replaced by January anyway, and the Monotype subscription is the cheapest way to do that. Just having some anxiety about the whole thing. I’ve got my fonts stored in the FEX font library, but I don’t know, for example, if I’d just drag those into something like Font Book to use them. Just curious if any of you other gurus have come up with some options. It’s left a truly bad taste in my mouth for them and frankly I’d just as soon not use them for my font management solution. Obviously, I don’t want to lose anything but, well, this is all a real PITA courtesy of Monotype. But honestly, I’ve been a little lax in my techie side and I really don’t know the best way to do this. I’m having a hard time justifying paying Monotype 200/year to just managed my fonts that’s why I’ve been looking to Connect Fonts, which is what Suitcase has become. I know this is a zombie thread, but has anyone heard anything else about this? I’m wondering if there’s a way (easy), for example, to migrate from FontExplorer to Font Book or even the new version of what was Suitcase. I’m assuming the workaround is to drop $3000 to buy all the fonts I need from them, then give up on their subscription. So, all my work is on hold until Monotype support responds, which is very stressful because I have deadlines that I am going to start missing starting tomorrow.įrom what I can tell reading other forums, Skyfonts has been buggy on Macs since 2017, and it looks like they gave up on trying to fix it and came out with the Monotype app as a replacement for Skyfonts and Fontexplorer. They accepted my payment this time, then immediately sent a message that said they were experiencing difficulties and I wouldn’t be able to login to use the subscription until they have it resolved. I went back to the Monotype app, managed to login, then purchased a 1 year individual subscription. Can’t login to that now either, so I don’t have access to any Monotype fonts such as Helvetica and Futura. Then Skyfonts went down over this weekend. Which was okay because I still had Fontexplorer and I could still access the Monotype font subscription using their Skyfonts app and MyFonts.
#FONT BOOK AND RIGHTFONT TRIAL#
Then the free trial expired and I couldn’t even log back into the Monotype app to pay them for a subscription. It migrated everything over from Fontexplorer and I used it for a week. I installed the demo of the Monotype app 3 weeks ago and it seemed to work okay.
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