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Typeface is a wonderful font manager for macOS that helps you pick the perfect type for your designs. With a minimal interface and total focus on your fonts, browsing your collection becomes a delightful experience. And new powerful font management features let you effortlessly organize even the largest libraries.

Free trial Pricing

Requires macOS 12 or later — Also available on the Mac App Store and Setapp.

Synced directories

Native support
for Apple Silicon

Synced directories

Compatible with
macOS Sequoia

Synced directories

Exclusively
designed for Mac

Intense focus on fonts

Seeing what your fonts look like is essential when you're exploring and designing typography. The flexible grid with customizable previews gives you a convenient overview of your library so you can easily determine which font conveys just the right emotion you're looking for.

Fonts overview
Fonts overview

Get inspired

Browse through your library without any distraction. Typeface lets you explore all your installed and imported fonts with live customization of preview text, size, colors and more.

Fonts list overview
Fonts list overview
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Manage with precision

With the detailed List view you can fully concentrate on technical font metadata. Perfect for cleaning up your library or finding the exact font version you need.

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Thoughtful UI

Typeface feels right at home on the Mac. Smooth animations guide you gently through your fonts and the elegant interface puts the focus on what matters.

Reveal every detail

View Unicode characters, inspect OpenType features, tweak variable fonts and study font info. Typeface lets you discover all the intricate details of your fonts.

Preview font body text layouts

Body text layouts

Find out how a font looks in a book, magazine or website article. You can preview one of the full body text layout presets and create your own custom templates.

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Preview variable fonts

Variable fonts

Tweak variable fonts to perfection. Get live previews of your adjustments and easily copy CSS values.

Preview font OpenType features

OpenType features

Take a deep dive into your fonts by inspecting all OpenType font features. Discover ligatures, figure styles, character alternates, fractions, capitals and more.

Preview font Unicode characters
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Unicode characters

Preview and search for every character a font supports and export them as vector. You can even compare characters between fonts to see the small — and big — differences.

Powerful organization

Create tags for styles, projects, use-cases, time periods, brands or any categorization you like. Typeface makes it easy to structurize and manage large font libraries.

Font collections

Tag, you're it

Typeface offers a very flexible and easy to use tagging system that lets you keep even the largest font libraries under control. Nest tags, combine tags, invert tags and filter tags; spend less time searching, more designing.

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Synced directories

Synced folders

Imported locations are kept up-to-date automatically. Point Typeface to a folder on your Mac and newly downloaded fonts are added on refresh.

Filter fonts

Filter fonts

Find just the one font you need, whether you're looking for a bold serif, or rather fancy a slanted script. Typeface's font filters make searching easy.

Remove font duplicates

Remove fonts

Need to clean up your library a bit? You can move fonts to Trash right from within the app. With advanced filters and a duplicate finder you'll get your font collection squeaky clean in no time.

Smart sidebar

Smart sidebar

Designed to get out of your way: swipe to collapse the sidebar and focus on font previews. While dragging it will automatically expand and highlight already attached tags.

Multi tagging fonts

Multi tagging

The new Multi Tagging panel allows you to attach multiple tags (to multiple fonts) at once, fully keyboard-controllable with fast fuzzy search. Neatly organising your fonts will be an absolute breeze.

Export tags

Tag export

Losing your tags is bad, m'kay. Typeface allows you to export & backup tags to an easily readable json format. So you'll always be able to recover your carefully organised library.

Font Switch

Say goodbye to finicky font pickers: simply drag and drop from Typeface to change a font in your favorite design app. All automated so you don't have to struggle with font names and can be creative instead.

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Switch fonts

Duplicate Magic

Become a cleanup wizard by making needless copies magically disappear. You can find and remove duplicate fonts from your library with just a snap of your fingers.
Abracadabra.

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Remove font duplicates

Ready? set... Activate!

When you've found the font you need activation is just one click away. Temporary and auto activation help you keep fonts active only when necessary such that your Mac stays clean and fast.

Activate fonts

Persistent activation

Activate fonts whenever you need them. They're activated in-place, so no files are copied or moved. And they stay available until you deactivate them, even after restarting your Mac.

Temporary font activation

Temporary activation

Automatically deactivate fonts when you close the app or shut down your Mac. Useful when you're trying out some fancy fonts and forget to manually deactivate them later.

Font auto activation

Auto activation

Hands-free activation of fonts and you won’t even notice it. Typeface can activate missing fonts behind the scenes right when you open design documents.

Streamlined workflow

The persistent Quick Collection helps you improve your design workflow. While exploring fonts you can quickly mark (and eliminate) potential candidates for your design, without having to worry about losing your selection.

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Collect fonts

Collect candidates

Use the Quick Collection to mark interesting fonts.

Refine selection

Refine selection

Review candidates and remove the least favorable.

Manage fonts

Store to tag

Attach tags to organize and easily find fonts back later.

Fonts in Sync

Typeface links to your imported folders and automatically discovers new fonts. This allows you to use any cloud service you like to sync your fonts across multiple Macs — whether that's Dropbox, Google Drive or just a shared network folder.

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Sync fonts using cloud storage
I wear my sunglasses at night

Typography by night

Use the lovely night theme to comfortably preview your fonts in the dark. Of course you're free to use this theme during the day as well.

Making font management fun

From advanced OpenType filters to comparing fonts: every feature is carefully designed to make managing fonts easier and more enjoyable.

Compare fonts

Font compare

Learn to distinguish Helvetica from Arial like a pro, with font overlays that show every little difference.

Font activation

OpenType features

Toggle ligatures, swashes, figure styles, character alternates, fractions, capitals and more.

Preview Google Fonts on Mac

Google Fonts

Expand your library with 5000+ free fonts from the Google Fonts catalog, including fancy variable fonts. All automatically synced to your Mac.

Custom tracking

Custom tracking

Give your characters some room to breathe— just hold down the Option key on your keyboard and pinch or use the tracking slider.

Display Ligatures

Outlines & Metrics

Show baselines, x-height and cap height. Preview outlines to closely inspect glyph curves and use font smoothing to improve legibility.

Auto size fonts

Auto size

Easily compare font appearance, by keeping previews all the same size.

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Export fonts to pdf

Export to PDF

Share a beautiful PDF of your hand-picked font collection with your client, boss and colleagues. Or print your favorite font to paper and hang it above your bed.

Manage macOS system fonts

System fonts

Typeface automatically imports all activated fonts that are available on your Mac, including macOS system fonts. But you can also hide system fonts from the app if you don't plan to use them.

Custom font previews

Preview presets

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Choose one of the default presets or create some of your own to quickly access them later.

Dynamic font previews

Dynamic previews

Preview fonts based on their language and character support. View symbols, emojis and foreign language characters at a glance.

Preview color fonts

Color fonts

Behold your vibrant color fonts right in Typeface app. You can choose predefined color palettes of COLRv0 fonts in the Variables detail tab.

Missing glyphs

Missing glyphs

Only show the fonts that support the characters you need. Enable one of the many language filters or specify the required characters yourself.

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Loved by many

Typeface app is used daily by award-winning studios, Fortune 500 companies, freelance designers and everyone in between. Download the free trial to give it a spin yourself.

Typeface app rating
4.6 out of 5 - based on 633 reviews
This third-party font manager for macOS has become a go-to choice for those seeking more power, flexibility, and smoother font management than Font Book can provide.
Highly recommended! This is the best font management application I've ever come across! On my iMac, I was still using an old version of FontExplorer X. But with the arrival of a new Mac Mini, I discovered I could no longer install this version. The only option was to upgrade to an expensive subscription version of Monotype. I didn't want to do that. Then I came across this Typeface app. I couldn't believe it! So beautiful, so simple. So intuitive. No missing styles. Perfect font activation. Just the fonts you need, when you need them. I should have known about Typeface long ago. Every Mac user should have it installed by default. I've been using it for about two months now. I can't live without it. Highly recommended.
Hencque
Einfach top – funktioniert bestens! Typeface ist mein Ersatz fĂŒr FontExplorer, der leider nicht mehr unterstĂŒtz wird. Mit Typeface kann ich meine Fonts bestens verwalten – bis jetzt hat alles einwandfrei funktioniert. Mir gefĂ€llt auch das Appledesign mit klarer Struktur und Bedienung.
Röbi Geiter
Handy Font Manager I use Typeface for my graphic design business, and it works great - lots of sweet features, and able to manage thousands of fonts efficiently.
Hurm12
Check'em out... then buy it! This has been the best font library app I have found (and have checked out many). What makes it the best:- easy to use- works- developer is engaged and making improvements... and keeps getting better
iDenzo
APPLE should absolutely invest in this app This app is the prefect companion to Pixelmator Pro (which apple just bought) and the Affinity Suite. It’s perfect. It’s robust. It is a must have for anyone who has many many many fonts (I have thousands )
Candlessss
Superb Easy to use, concise and well worth the money.
andysbowden
Great app only getting better The newest update provides a incredibly helpful list view that can help you sort fonts quickly. This app is also very fast on drawing the fonts. On my M1 I see nearly no lag whatsoever.
Abundant Grace
Incredibly powerful, versatile and easy to use software. I have been using font management software since it became a thing with Adobe Type Manager and Suitcase. Having used modern tools and watched them devolve into the greedy monthly subscription model without adding any functionally and being unwieldy, I needed something better. Typeface is exactly how I would have spec’ed the software if I was designing it from scratch. Intuitive, simple while being robust. Thanks, guys. You crushed it.
SamToll
Fantastic continued updates Loving the continued updates and improvements. I’m a very light user of font tools, not a designer, more of a part-time font appreciator, but this tool is one of the best.
EdiPhone
Amazing Font Manager I got the standalone version a while ago and with each new update it gets really nice new additions. The dev is active and responds amazingly to support requests! Can really recommend it above all other major font managers out there right now
ZuverlÀssiger Hörer
SchutzE This app is a breath of fresh air. The interface is beautifully designed, native and incredibly intuitive. Finally, someone understands what designers actually need!
Angel Bartolli
very great typemanager!!! I tried a lot over the years and this is so far the best.
loubastinou
Best app for font library management hands down! I've tried a dozen or more apps to manage my large library of fonts on my Mac. They all sucked in one way or another. Most were bad because they were so slow to load and render fonts. If you have more than 1000 fonts, half the apps I tried just failed to open and display.This app is fast and slick. The UI is intuitive and easy to use. It's by far the best font app for MacOS I've ever used. It handles my tens of thousands of fonts easily, instantly activates fonts (including my designs apps automatically picking up the newly activated fonts without having to restart), and has nice organizational features. I love it.
blake10001
Superb Font Management App I’ve been designer for most of my life and always found Font management apps over the years to be atrocious. And I’m talking apps made by large software companies. In recent years the situation has improved a bit and I used one other solid app on Mac and FontBase on Windows.Unfortunately the app I was using was not compatible with Sequoia and was still a bit barebones even though it had really nice features.Well, all I can say is wheimbedund Typeface 3, I wasn’t 100% if it would cover all my scenarios even though it looked promising.Just wow. What a beautiful app and packed with everything you might need. Not only showing off the fonts in a beautiful way so you can actually see how it will look in designs and layouts but every feature I had before is there too, Google Fonts, Folder live updates and others.No brainer. Honestly the fastest purchase I’ve made to PRO version in a long time. If you are looking fast and awesome font manager for OSX, all I can say is, Typeface 3 is it.Here’s my suggestion to developer as a customer who almost didn’t buy it. You have a lot of screenshots showing app’s functionality in showing fonts and very little of other features that are in many cases more important to people than just viewing fonts. As a good faith comment definitely try to include a few of the screens showing off google font importing, custom font folder watch functionality and similar. I was specifically looking for those features yet I wasn’t certain the app could do it.Anyways, amazing job. Your attention to detail even to the smallest UI animations when showing fonts is awesome. Keep up the great work and updates to the app and you got a long term customer here.
Bozzified
Richtig gute Schriftverwaltung Schnell, ĂŒbersichtlich. Leicht zu bedienen. Zusammenspiel mit Indesign klappt super. Inbetriebnahme: Fonts einfach in der gewĂŒnschten Verzeichnisstruktur ins Fenster der App schieben (Pro). Fertig. Die Fonts bleiben da, wo ich sie haben will.
Tauentzien
almost perfect – always nice it®s a pleasure to work with! practical, nice UI, helpful functions all the way. it works very smoothly – which is a new experience for me in terms of external font-managers!
 the one thing missing for me: a link between Typeface collections and the systems FontBook collections (which regularly appear for helpful structured access in apps). – 
 but then Typeface has other ways of making the interaction w/ apps smooth – so this would only be a half star less than five. and Typeface is always improving and getting *even better* the overall package certainly is ★★★★★!
lerone-b
Like it & use it every day Works fine with Adobe (& any other I use) products. Look & handling are great, too. I'm very satisfied!
ralfdh
Great font manager for Mac I like everything about it, except thatthere isn't a plugin for Adobe products. Otherwise would get 5 stars.
Design_Whippet
Il miglior font manager Ho provato diversi font manager (sono un graphic designer) e Typeface Ăš il migliore sulla piazza. Facile, intuitivo, realmente utile, con un'interfaccia pulita e un'esperienza d'uso fantastica.
Tunnino
very usefull! essencial font manager for designers pro and typograph fans
Elzzmc
Excellent app! Best font manager I have used. Very happy I made the switch. Well designed and easy to use.
JDGTR7
Great app, really matured in recent years; by a quality developer It is too bad that the App Store is showing as its top two reviews a couple from four and five years ago, because this app has come a long way since then. I am writing this review as one who first purchased this app a little over six years ago, and I have been a happy user ever since. It behaved well and was well designed even then, but it has really matured along the way, and I have never looked elsewhere for another font manager. Rather than tell you all the features you can read about for yourself in the description, I will go in a different direction and tell you that the developer of this app is not a faceless corporation but a genuine, kind, and helpful person. Over the six years, I have had several occasions to send feedback or report a few issues, and our correspondence was a pleasure every time. It gives me a lot of confidence in the app: it is a quality app because there is a quality person behind it. I see in a few negative reviews that there is confusion about unlocking the pro features. Since the App Store has never had a good way to offer upgrade pricing for financing development of new features, this app has chosen a novel approach, but it is NOT a subscription and there is no auto-renewal. It is intended to be a paid app, but it does do some things for free in lieu of a demo. Then once you pay to unlock the “Pro” features, you will always have access to all of those pro features forever, as well as any more that come out in the next 12 months. If you never pay anything more again, you will still be able to download every update to keep the app running and keep the features you already paid for, as well as numerous other smaller refinements that are not considered as pro features. Just look at the version history, and you will see: this app is well maintained regardless of whether you choose to pay for new pro features in the future. This is not like subscription software where you are expected to pay forever even after the software development goes stagnant. Here, you pay once, use forever, and only pay more for new additional features if you feel the developer has earned it. That seems fair to me. And in my experience, this developer has definitely earned it.
garrettm30
Just what you need Typeface works great and has a super clean interface. Sometimes all you need is a simple tool to get the job done vs. 1000's of menu options. This is it and at a stellar price too!
L5005
Simplicity is perfection An app that efficiently manages fonts via an elegant, easy to use interface. Great work and it keeps getting better!
AllApps4Work
Best Font Manager The best font manager app, should be on windows too...
Mateuspollonio
Intuitive Out of all the font managers through history this is the most elegant.
elstinko
I <3 Typeface My type manager for years now. I love every feature, beyond the awesome UI. So handy and intuitive. As a senior designer, Typeface is truly what I was looking for. Handles thousands of fonts effortlessly. Font selection tagging by project is metal. Nice pricing. Five star support. Subscribed to Pro this year. I am never lookin back. Thank you.
papa_wolf
I love this font management app This app has made it so much easier to keep track of my fonts and group them using tags.Good job developers!
TopDogDesign
Lovely I've been using Typeface for a couple years, and I love it. It is beautiful, simple, but makes management of my insane library easy and fun. Thank you team!
nickwichman
Alternativlos Best Fontapp ever :-)
ProfilAktisch
Awesome Love it!!!!
Jessijane885
Fast, Foxy, Fabulous Just my goto when I'm browsing fonts. Wonderfull app.
mpk1981
all fonts visible in one place! So nice to be able to compare fonts from so many different sources in one place. It's very helpful for keeping track of licensing as well. Saves so much brain space!
aogaby5
Saved my font life! I had been dithering around after Font Explorer X discontinued its app support, worried about how I was going to manage my 11K fonts. Finally knuckled down and did the research and found Typeface and its good reviews. Installed it and was up and running in five minutes including pointing the app to my font folder and importing all my sets from FEX. Super easy. Interface is very much like Font Explorer X. If you are trying to find a new manager for your fonts I highly recommend Typeface.
FatFirefly
Feels like a missing part of the OS - Diese App ist ein 'Muss' I've tried many font managers and Typeface 3 is by far the best value for the money. Ich habe schon verschiedenste Font-Manager ausprobiert und Typeface 3 ist mit Abstand die App, die am meisten fĂŒr's Geld bietet! Mein Preview-Text lautet ĂŒbrigens: 1’234&567 @ZĂŒrcher hĂ€tten gerne /- 890 möglichst (grĂŒne?) Xylophone! Fonts mit vollstĂ€ndigem Zeichensatz fĂŒr die deutsche Sprache sind damit auf einen Blick erkennbar.
scorpio13
Best ever! Nothing compares to you! :-)
whymck
El mejor auto-activador de fonts! La aplicaciĂłn es limpia, elegante y bien diseñada, funciona perfectamente y es muy intuitiva. invisible a la hora de abrir tus documentos y auto-activar los fonts utilizados, deja tus fuentes en donde tĂș las quieras tener, etc. 10/10PD Gracias por la info que se muestra al instalar las fuentes XD
rochamx
La mejor sin duda He estado utilizando Font Explorer por años y he cambiado a esta por su simplicidad, y muy intuitiva. Me gustaria que se indicase ademas del numero de typefaces tambien el numero de familias en cada tag y grupos. Gracias por el buen hacer. Saludos
KarnaInfoDesign (KID)
OTTIMO La uso ogni giorno! Consigliatissima.
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