How many fonts is too many fonts?

[The Equivocate]

I downloaded a couple new Greek/Roman style fonts tonight for a flyer I'm working on for a company, and went into my Fonts folder and saw I have 438 fonts... do you think that's too many? The thing is, I've used pretty much all of them at one point or another. Just wondering how many fonts everyone has and if there's a noticeable slowdown in any programs or just overall when you hit a certain number.

 

[Barrucadu]

Not sure how many I have - but its definatly over 200.
Some days I just go on font sites and download loads.

You can never have too many fonts - empty harddrive space is WASTED harddrive space! lol

 

[-NC-]

I seem to recall a colleague of mine having around 2000 fonts installed, and there was a significant performance improvement when he reduced that down to less than 1K.

I think you'll be okay with 438

 

[Barrucadu]

After checking, I have 501 files in my c:\windows\fonts folder

 

[Nitro]

I have 889 installed... I didn't realize I had that many..

 

[hanz]

and there was a significant performance improvement when he reduced that down to less than 1K.

I have also heard that too many fonts make computer slower.

 

[kwan]

You can never have too many fonts - empty harddrive space is WASTED harddrive space! lol

That would make a nice bumper sticker :hehe:

I only have 294 fonts, but 30 GB free disk space. So I have room for about 300,000 more

 

[Coopey]

Easily over 1,000 different fonts across Windows and Mac.
Many are slight variations of others.
"If only this exact font had slightly more rounded corners..."

 

[Skinny]

Didn't bother checking but since I'm a logo designer unique and crisp fonts are a necessity so I grab what I can.

Skinny

 

[shockie]

having a lot of fonts in a folder shouldn't really matter. what matters is how many fonts you use on any given copy, which i think should be limited to about three different fonts.

 

[angisson]

I got about 3k of fonts all on 2 CD's

 

[Humdizzy]

I have 2k installed, but over 7k on the HD.

 

[Janine]

i think i only have 2oo+
lol..

 

[Brian]

478 installed, have about another 800 or so not installed at the moment

 

[-AB-]

Now only about 1200 to 1500 but used to have mid x,xxx when I designed.