Inside projects
One workspace per client engagement — with its own font roster, its own pairings, its own licence clearances, its own locale list, its own team, and a live readiness scorecard. The fonts view is for your library; the projects view is for everything you do with your library.
01 · Plan
Switch into Projects from the top-of-window toggle and you see every active engagement. Filter by status, sort by go-live date or recency. Open one and the workspace splits into eight tabs — each a lens on the same body of work — with a live status pill and days-to-go-live chip pinned to the header no matter which tab you’re on.
02 · Pair
The project’s Pairings tab gathers every combination saved against the work, grouped by layout context — Hero, Body, Editorial, Navigation, or whatever you name them. Mark one pairing primary per context; queue candidates underneath. When the brief evolves, swap the primary; the candidates wait their turn.
03 · License
Owning a licence is not the same as having the right one for the work in front of you. A campaign that runs as a webfont, as digital ads, and as printed packaging needs three different licences for the same typeface. FontCurator tracks the needs, the clearances, and the evidence — font by font, project by project.
04 · Locales
Add target locales once at the start of the engagement and FontCurator carries the list through every project view. For each font × locale combination you can mark a clearance — this typeface, in this language, approved for use — with the exact missing characters rendered in red on the clearance dialog so you sign off knowing what you’re waiving.
05 · Team
Every project carries a small directory of the people involved — your team, the client’s team, the studio lead — so you never have to dig through an old email thread to find who approved what. Behind the panel sits a global contacts and clients database; the next engagement starts with that pool already populated.
06 · Audit
When the client asks “are we good to launch?” — or an auditor asks “show me the licensing on this campaign” — FontCurator generates a single PDF that says yes, here is everything. Set in typography befitting a design-led document. Not a debug log; something you co-brand and hand over.
07 · Trace
FontCurator logs every action three ways — global, per-project, per-font — automatically, in the same transaction that creates the record. Reopen a project six months after delivery and the activity tab tells you what happened, who did it, and when. When did the licence record get added? Who signed off the German clearance? When was the project marked ready? The log answers.
Three guarantees that shape every other decision in the app. No subscription — you buy a version and you own it. No lock-in — your fonts stay in Font Book; your data exports any time. No forced upgrades — today’s version runs for as long as your Mac supports it, and tomorrow’s upgrade is yours to choose, or not.
Pairings, clearances, contacts, and licence records all flow forward into future projects. A decision you made for one engagement is one click away in the next. Decade-long working libraries become decade-long working memory — the kind a studio actually accrues equity in.
Ready to start shipping with proof