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Searching for Fonts

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Don J.
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Select a library or set, then click in the Search field at the top of the browser window.

The search field will auto-fill in the selected library.  To the right, you can choose to search the fonts in your collection or expand the scope to fonts you don't own yet as well.

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Type some text into the Search field.

By default, Connect Fonts looks in these font metadata fields:

  • Name

  • PostScript Name

  • Family

  • Foundry

  • Classification

  • Style

  • Tags

  • Font Sense Smart Tags

As you type, Connect Fonts compares your text with the contents of these fields in all the fonts in your search scope, and will return results as you continue to do so.

A list of the top three fonts that match your result is displayed in real time, followed by the Font Sense Smart Tags that match your results, and last, any Tags that match as well.

If there are no exact matches for your search, Connect Fonts will show fuzzy matches.

Example: If the Google Fonts library is selected and you search for  helv ( Helvetica-ish fonts) the top results will show you three fonts in the Chivo family (the first three, alphabetically).

The same search will also show several fuzzily matched Font Sense Smart Tags.  The number in parentheses after each entry is the number of fonts that include that Smart Tag.

At this point, you can choose a font from the Top Results list to display just that font, or one of the Font Sense Smart Tags to display all the fonts with that tag.

If you press Return, Connect Fonts will return all fonts that match some form of your search term in one of the metadata fields listed above.

Font Sense Smart Tags

When you add fonts to Connect Fonts, we automatically add curated tags to each font.

Connect Fonts lists each font’s Font Sense Smart Tags in the font’s Info panel.

Click the Info button for any font. You can now click on any Font Sense Smart Tag to automatically search the current library for other fonts with the same smart tag.

Pairings

Connect Fonts can suggest fonts to use as counterpoint to a selected font.

To see Pairings options, select a font, then click Pairings.

Connect Fonts shows the selected font and up to five fonts that pair well with it.

In the right side of the panel, we show the two fonts together. Click Switch to swap the two fonts.

Click a different font name to see how it pairs with your original selection.

Choose a different style from the menu below the selected font name.

Right-click on a font name in the Pairings list to activate, deactivate, or change the font’s Favorite status.

Use the activation icons at the top of the font’s information panel to activate or deactivate the selected font.

Note: You can select more than one font, then click a Pairings button. Connect Fonts will show you pairing options for all the fonts that you selected.

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