Is there any way to add sub-collections to top tier collections? As a design firm we have several clients with multiple projects for each client. These don’t always contain the same fonts. Instead of having multiple “folders” (i.e. CLIENT-Print, CLIENT-Web, CLIENT-Video) is there a way to have “subfolders” just to keep the collections list paired down appropriately?
Hello @Conquer, thank you for your post and the clear description.
Unfortunately there is no way to do this in FontBase at the moment, but if this feature gets enough support, it’s probably something that can be implemented in one of the future releases.
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Created an account just to add our voice. Sub-collections are desperately needed for better organization.
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Upvoted !
I personaly sort my fonts in 3 ways :
- By folowing the Vox-Atypi systeme (12 collections)
- By atributes : Mono, Ornements, Rough, Symbol,… (more or less 10 collections)
- By feeling : Retro, Halloween, Sport, Comic,… (15 collections)
Finaly i would like to sort theme by client, but i already have A LOT of collections. I can’t wait to ba able to sort them in sub-collections and collapse them to avoid this long scroll i have to do anytime i look for a font.
Until then, thank you for your great job on this usefull software i use every single day !
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Here to put a vote down for this option to be made!
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Over a year as a request and still no sub-collections in site despite being one of the highest voted features.
Is FontBase development dead? We’ve only seen 1 update this year. 
Hello @syrehn, thank you for the post and sorry for such a delay.
Now, not dead at all. Updates are actually coming soon. Yes, it’s been a while, very true.
But please bear with us for just a little longer.
Thank you again,
Yuriy
FontBase Dev Team
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Hello! just adding another vote for subfolders. I’m finally coming over from FontExplorerX and the ability to set Collections into Subfolders would be greatly appreciated. I’ve got collections organized into eras / types / projects / script & sign fonts etc. Over time this has grown to 30+ folders and is a surprise that this isn’t implemented into this program. Currently doing a workaround where I’m naming the collections with a prefix so they stay organized - but can see this will just result in a very very long list. Hard to give up this convenience - but otherwise FontBase seems pretty nice. Crossing fingers this will be implemented
Any word on this. Is it in development? Is it under consideration? Are we in a feature freeze? 
Hello @syrehn, thank you for the bump 
Still under consideration I’m afraid 
Thank you again,
Yuriy
Question for clarification (for the developers.)
(Dont know if rhis really shoyld be a suggestion on its own- please correct me if so!):
Before my current computer (windows), i had a Mac. I purchased the RightFont fontmanager, (only for mac not windows) and i loved it.
Fontbase is the closest I’ve come to it.
The feature I’m missing, i think is somewhat like the one suggested in this thread. However, english is not my native language, Danish is. Therefore I’m unsure if the subfolder thing suggested is equivalent to the feature Im hoping to be added.
I’m mentioning RightFont, because the feature I want, was in that program.
You had the main folder, where all fonts were.
I could of course make collections and sort in to my preferred custom topics (Retro, Serif, Sans Serif, Quirky, Famous, Display… whatever i wanted to call it.).
However, it was possible to have the same font in more folders, without making duplicates of the font itself. (is this where the suggested subfolders come in?) . This is so helpful when one has fonts, that falls under multiple categories and therefor folders. As an example, I may have one specific font that I want folders called:
-RETRO
-SWASH ENDNGs
-VINTAGE
-FAIRYTALEs
Since this is not possible I often find myself overlooking some fonts, because I had to choose only one of the listed categories.
With 4500 different fonts, its too much, and so the FontBase font manager only helps me about 50-60%. Its better than 35-45, but still.
I hope this makes sense
Natasja
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Hello Natasja, thank you for your post
The subject of this topic is a bit different, it’s about making collections inside of other collections basically, you are correct.
What you’ve described is how FontBase Collections work. You have as many different collections as you’d like and if you add a single font to several collections you will still have the same single font on your hard drive, but would be able to see it in each collection.
As for fonts in Folders, you would have to have a font file in a folder to see it in FontBase. Just tested font symbolic and hard links to go around this, but sadly they don’t seem to work for font files on Windows
Thank you again,
Yuriy
FontBase Dev Team
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I also just created an account to back up this petition. I see it is under Greenlight, does that mean it is on the works and soon to be live on FontBase? I hope so because it is ESSENTIAL to be able to organize fonts in at least 1 more subfolder under the collections. I, as many, like to have things organized and quickly to access… Recently I just finished the daunting task of organizing about 8k fonts (between google and others and my own I’ve collected over +20years). So I need to find a way how to organize without duplicating (yesterday I deleted thousands of dupes!!!) to have order in the house. So VERRRYYYY much welcome would be to have for example
Collections > By Project (Clients) > each client
Collections > TYPES > Sans Serif, Serif, Display, Slab, etc…
At the moment all I can do is have those types and each client all together under Collections without any order other than alphabetically (oughr).
I can imagine others, same as me, would like to have more control on how to organize and sort our groups of fonts we use the most, we all have favorite styles so it’d be a blessing to be able to access the fonts we use the most as quickly as possible, even more when juggling with several projects at the same time, as well as make it EASIER to organize, find, select or remove those. I know we have Favorite, it helps, but it is not the same if we want to quickly find and COMPARE using “folders” system under Collections.
About Compare / Match— dreaming for the moment it is available in an easier way than the Preview options. (kind of like it was in Suitcase Fusion) – thanks
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Hello @progboxstudio, thank you for your post and welcome to the forum
And a separate thank you for the extensive write-up
To answer your question - not exactly. The Greenlight forum category is meant to suggest changes/features, not necessarily meaning they are currently in development and will soon be available in the app.
Thank you again,
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Meh… I was really hoping this would be a soon to be feature… Thanks anyway
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This would be extremely useful indeed!
Hello everyone:)
Glad to announce that the 2.22.4 update is here and, among other things, finally includes the option to group Collections using sub-collections, just as with Folders.
This option has been missing for a long time, sorry for such a delay
Thank you
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