![]() If you’re in the market for a new font manager, or feel the need to use one for the first time, I HIGHLY recommend giving Suitcase Fusion 4 a try.You can collect fonts from the Connect Fonts font vault if you want to send someone fonts used in a project, or move from Connect Fonts to another font manager such as Universal Type Server.įonts can be collected from local libraries, personal cloud libraries, Smart Searches, Google Fonts, and System Fonts. And it has certainly earned its place back in the Dock of my Mac Pro and MacBook Air. With this latest updated, Extensis has cemented its dominant lead in the font management market, in my opinion. A demo is available to see if Suitcase Fusion 4 is right for your preferred workflow. ![]() The full version costs just $99.95, and upgrades from Fusion 2 or 3 cost just $49.95. Suitcase Fusion 4 is available for Mac OS X 10.5.8 and higher on an Intel Mac, and works with Adobe Creative Suite 3 and higher (I’m sure a CS6 plugin update will arrive shortly after Adobe releases CS6 to the public). Awesome! This is particularly useful if you plan on using the WebINK or Google Web Fonts technology I mentioned above. To me, Quick Match is the killer feature that every designer will absolutely love!Īnd how’s this for cool… you can load an existing website (right from the web) and apply any font in your collection to the site to see what it will look like. ![]() You can also tick a checkbox to limit the results by font style or classification, making the task of finding just the right font quite simple. QuickMatch offers a slider to adjust the relevance of the matched results. Selecting an available font from your installed fonts list and clicking on the new Quick Match icon displays a list of other fonts in your library that closely resemble the selected font. But the new feature that really made my day was QuickMatch. On the maintenance front, you can now check for font corruption and clear font caches right from within Fusion – avoiding the need for other 3rd party utilities. The panel requires CS 5 or higher to work. The ability to leave fonts in place or add them to the Fusion Vault is still there (I prefer to use the Vault to prevent corruption and make backups easier), but a few more goodies are really what makes Fusion 4 a great upgrade.įusion 4 introduces an independent font panel into Adobe Creative Suite apps that not only allows you to preview fonts, but create customized font digests for specific projects. Fusion feature goodness!Īll the past and expected features such as auto-activation in Adobe CS apps, font smart sets, and identification/keyword tools are available in Suitcase Fusion. Google Web Fonts show up in the source list as a separate library as well, so there’s no confusion as to where a font came from. You also have Google’s Web Fonts available at your disposal for use in any application. I actually use WebINK for the fonts you see here on The Graphic Mac – so it’s nice to have access to them right in Suitcase. Your purchased WebINK fonts show up right in Fusion’s font source list, as well as approximately 4,600 other available fonts for purchase and use on your websites. The first thing I noticed was that Extensis’ WebINK technology is fully baked-in to Fusion. The Suitcase Fusion 4 interface will look familiar to existing users Integration And because the Fusion Core is part of the app itself, there’s no System Preference amnesia to deal with anymore. Suitcase and InDesign both launch quickly and continued to run smoothly over the last two weeks. But use it for an hour or so and you begin to see they’ve changed much more than just its icon.įor starters, the problems I was having with slow load times of Suitcase, as well as Adobe InDesign with the auto-activation plugin installed, have gone away completely. Again.Īt first glance, Suitcase Fusion 4 doesn’t appear to have changed much beyond the new icon (part of their new corporate re-branding). Within hours, it became my preferred font manager. As luck would have it, Extensis just released Suitcase Fusion 4. When Apple released Lion, however, Font Explorer began exhibiting all sorts of issues for me. Overall it just wasn’t a smooth experience, so I switched to Font Explorer X and all was well… for a while. It could have been my system and not Fusion, but I never found out. Nothing major, but it took forever to load, and the Fusion Core System Preference began to forget to launch quite often. But when Fusion 3 was released, I began noticing problems. It’s always been reliable and worked as smoothly as can be expected. In doing so, Extensis has raised the bar for other font managers when it comes to integrating fonts in the print and web world.įor years (long before the OS X days) my font manager of choice has always been Extensis Suitcase. ![]() Extensis has released Suitcase Fusion 4, and brought with it a few new features that designers will love.
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