FrauncesSerif
Fonts sort themselves.
Typeist sorts every font on your Mac as it arrives into serif, sans serif, script or handwritten. The sorting runs on your Mac. No account and no subscription.
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Fraunces
Undercase Type · 1 style
Tags
- Serif
- Headline
- Magazine
- Sophisticated
- Variable
- Foundry
- Undercase Type
- Styles
- Regular
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Status
- On
This is a working preview. Class tags are automatic in the app. The style, use and tone tags shown here are the kind you add yourself.
Automatic tagging
Fonts tag themselves.
A 19 KB model on your Mac reads the letterforms, and simple rules read the name and file details. Each family lands in Serif, Sans Serif, Handwritten or Script. No account, no subscription, no upload.
Sorting ten new fonts
Serif
- Fraunces
- Playfair Display
- DM Serif Display
Sans Serif
- Inter
- Space Grotesk
- Poppins
Script
- Pinyon Script
- Great Vibes
Handwritten
- Caveat
- Patrick Hand
Indexes in place
Your folder stays yours.
Typeist reads fonts where they already are. It never copies or moves the fonts it indexes, and it watches the folder, so new fonts are found and tagged on their own.
9,477fonts in about 4 seconds
Measured on one Mac, on a library of 9,477 font files. Typeist reads them where they are.
Filters that combine
Filters that combine.
Choose two classes and the search widens: Serif or Script. Add a tone from another group and it narrows: Serif or Script, and Sophisticated. Counts update as you click.
Class any of
Tone any of
- FrauncesSerif, Sophisticated
- LoraSerif, Serene
- InterSans Serif, Professional
- PoppinsSans Serif, Casual
- CaveatHandwritten, Casual
- Pinyon ScriptScript, Sophisticated, Serene
- Great VibesScript, Sophisticated, Serene
- Dancing ScriptScript, Casual
Tags you own
Your edits always win.
Add or remove a tag by hand and it sticks. Automatic tagging runs again whenever you add fonts, and it never overwrites your edit. Tag a whole selection at once, and export every tag to JSON.
Hover or focus a tag to see what it means.
Activation
Switch fonts on and off.
Turn a family on and other apps can use it, still on after a restart. Choose Turn On Until Quit for a one-off job. Select fonts and press Space to switch them.
Choose a font
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs, then ship the quick brown fox a typeface that fits.
Off. Other apps fall back to a default font.
Space turns the selected font on or off. Use the arrow keys to pick another font.
And the details
Built for big libraries.
Small tools that keep a big font library tidy, safe and easy to move around in.
Collections
Group fonts by project. Drag fonts onto a collection to add them. Deleting a collection never touches the font files themselves.
Drag-and-drop import
Drop font files or folders on the window. They are filed into folders by foundry and family, nothing is overwritten, and exact duplicates are skipped.
Repairs broken fonts
Typeist fixes one common kind of damaged font header in a cached copy of the file, so the original on your disk is never touched.
Problems list
Files that cannot be read are collected in a Problems list, so you can see exactly which ones need attention instead of guessing.
Themes
Pick your own accent.
Typeist has 13 presets plus its default blue, or any color from the system picker. Light, dark or system, and every theme keeps text at AA contrast. Try one here and the rest of this page follows.
Process blue: text #1D3FB8 at 8.6 to 1 on white
Privacy first
Your library stays local.
Tagging runs on your Mac, and crash logs are written to a folder there and never uploaded. The only exceptions are update checks, which you can turn off, and the optional Vision Tags feature, which stays off until you add your own API key.
Read the privacy policy- No accounts
- No analytics
- No tracking
- Crash logs stay on your Mac
Compared
The basics, plus tagging.
Typeist covers the everyday work of a font manager and adds one thing on top: every font gets a class the moment it arrives.
| Feature | Typeist | Typeface |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic tagging on import | Yes, on device | Not listed |
| Tags and JSON tag backup | Yes | Yes |
| Grid and list views | Yes | Yes |
| Activation in place | Yes | Yes |
| Activation until quit | Yes | Yes |
| Folder refreshes itself | Yes | Yes |
| Compare overlays, PDF export | Not planned | Yes |
| Google Fonts and cloud sync | Not planned | Yes |
The Typeface column follows the feature list on typefaceapp.com as it stood when the Typeist plan was written on 2 November 2026. Typeist is not affiliated with Typeface.
Sort your font folder.
Point Typeist at the folder you already have. It indexes in place, tags every family, and leaves your files where they are.
Coming soon. Requires macOS 14 or later.