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Y'know what'd be a great UI improvement?

Categorization of fonts. Especially if it's user-controlled. Put that shit in folders.

"Standard", "Web-safe", "Script", "Headers", "Retro PC"...

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This popped the fuck OFF!

So I'm seeing mention that MacOS and KDE have this already, and at least one specific application. And that made me think!

First: as a long-time Windows user who initially used MacOS/System 7.5, KDE and current MacOS having this is no use to me and other Windows users.

Second: even *if* the OS' default font selection window does it, not every application uses the default font selection window, so... yeah, huh...

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@kawa I'm reliably* informed that no-one needs to organise things into folders any more, because search is much better and, if it's not, LLMs will fix it.

*By one of the managers of our docs team

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@krans jesus christ that's horrifying

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@kawa
"Illegible", "Childish", "Racially Insensitive", "Nazi"

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@RealGene Got your "illegible" right here :)

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@kawa Even better: tags! A font can be in only one folder at a time, but multiple tags might apply to it!

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@kawa I would really like a "Noto" folder. It's so many separate fonts, it's like 95% of my laptop's font list
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@kawa @Bright5park I have FontBase installed on my PC to do just this. The problem is the sheer number of fonts I've acquired and having the time to sort them... 🤦‍♀️

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@lilithesque FontBase came up on Tumblr. And I don't think applications like it are a solution.

Actually I don't think there is such a thing as a solution to begin with.

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@kawa

What about, like, tags? And you can do all the set theory operations on them when you're searching.

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@MegaMichelle Tags instead of folders, what are folders in this context if not tags but you can only have one per item?

It wouldn't make a bit of difference anyway, every application and/or UI framework just does what it wants.

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@kawa if sofrware consistently would let me pick my own fonts from my own folders instead of using this local app's idea of what the system fonts are then we would gain that feature for free
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