Fontmatrix User Manual - Font management - Using tags

## Using tags

### Why

Tags are a great and flexible way to manage your fonts collection, because they don't set restrictions on a way you categorize fonts. You can use tags like "Fonts I bought from AGFA before it was acquired" or "Slab serif fonts my wife hates" or "Fake italic fonts I wouldn't use for my own dear mother" or "Fonts I designed for COMPANY_NAME" or "Serif high contrast text fonts I'm allowed to embed".

### How to add tags

There are two ways to add new tags.

The first one is when you add a directory containing fonts (and the Ask for tag names when importing fonts options in Preferences is enabled). You will be presented with this dialog:

So this dialog lists all the tags Fontmatrix knows about and allows you to pick one of them and/or add a new one. For the latter just enter name of a new tag and click Add button. The newly created tag will be automatically used for the fonts you are about to import:

Later when you select a font that has some custom (that is, created by you) tag, the Tags pane will have this tag listed:

If you want to assign a number of tags to currently filtered fonts, use the Edit > Tag all filtered... command. This will open the dialog already familiar to you.

### Editing and removing tags

Right click on a tag in Tags panel allows to edit it or remove it from the database.