The main window of the Connect Fonts desktop application is divided into three sections: the toolbar at the top, the collections pane on the left, and the Fonts pane on the right.
A:Toolbar B:Collections pane C:Fonts pane
A. Toolbar
The toolbar provides access to important functionality, including font activation, creating new font groupings, editing font attributes, QuickMatch, the Glyphs pane, showing or hiding the Font List in the Fonts pane, and QuickFind.
To modify the toolbar:
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In Windows, choose View > Hide Toolbar Text to remove labels and reduce the size of toolbar icons.
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In macOS, right-click on the toolbar to show icons, labels, or both, change the icon and text size, and customize what appears on the toolbar.
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In macOS, you can also choose View > Hide Toolbar to hide the toolbar completely.
Font groupings
Use these buttons to create a new local library, a new set within any library (or within another set), or a new Smart Search that can quickly find fonts by given criteria in any or all of your libraries. See Collections, Sets, and Advanced Find.
Editing attributes
Modify the metadata associated with any font.See Using metadata to organize your fonts.
The Glyphs pane
View all the glyphs in a specific font, and search for glyphs by name. See Finding glyphs.
B. Collections pane
The collections pane shows local and cloud-based font libraries, tracked documents, and Smart Searches.
To hide any of the collections, move your mouse pointer to the right end of the collection title; when the word Hide or the hide symbol
appears, click it to hide that collection. (When the collection is hidden, its name still appears in the list, and the Hide oroption becomes Show or the symbol
.)
Team Libraries
Team Libraries are available to other users on your Connect Fonts team.
Personal Libraries
With Personal Libraries, you can synchronize your fonts between two systems (even different platforms).
Local Libraries*
Local libraries contain fonts on your computer that you don’t share or synchronize through the Connect Fonts web app. You can have as many local libraries as you need to organize your fonts your way.
*Only available in versions 22 to 24
Document Tracking
The Connect Fonts desktop app can identify fonts used in documents from your creative applications. See Document tracking.
System Fonts
The fonts installed in your operating system’s font folder(s). These typically can’t be moved, and most cannot be deactivated.
Smart Searches
A Smart Search is a set of saved search criteria. Click any Smart Search to immediately show up-to-date results for that search.
C. Fonts pane
The Fonts pane lists all items in whatever collection is selected on the left. (In most cases this will be fonts, but when you select a collection under Document Tracking, the Fonts pane shows documents.)
The Fonts pane has two different views available:
Previews and Previews + Font List.
To switch between views, click 
to Show Font List (or 
to Hide Font List) on the toolbar.
Previews shows one of four different types of preview: Tile, QuickType, Waterfall, or ABC123.
Previews + Font List splits the Fonts pane between a modified Previews list on top, and a sortableFont Liston the bottom.