SXfont RU

What’s New

Every SXfont release, newest first. Since version 2.1 the app updates itself: when a new version is out, a card appears at the bottom of the sidebar. Download SXfont 2.2

2.2

October 29, 2026

Fonts turn on by themselves

New
  • Auto-activation. You open a file in Photoshop, Sketch, Affinity, Keynote or another app, and the font it needs is off in SXfont. It turns on by itself, with no dialogs or questions. The app gets the font only for itself and only while it’s open; in SXfont the font stays off.
  • Illustrator and InDesign too. These apps don’t ask macOS for fonts, so SXfont looks at their open documents itself. The first time, macOS asks whether SXfont may control the app. Click “Allow”.
  • Lightning on the card. A font that is on temporarily has a light-green lightning outline. Click it to keep the font on for good.
  • App list. Settings → Auto-Activation lists your apps with checkboxes. Uncheck an app and it stops getting fonts from SXfont. The same tab shows which app recently got which font.
  • Fonts downloaded from the Google Fonts showcase turn on by themselves too.
Fixed
  • “Recent” shows the newest fonts on top with any sort order.

Limitation. On macOS 27, App Store apps (Pages, Keynote, Numbers) stopped asking the system for fonts. This is a bug in macOS itself. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Sketch and Affinity work.

2.1

September 30, 2026

Updates right in the app

New
  • In-app updates. When a new version is out, a card appears at the bottom of the sidebar. Click it, see what’s new and install in one click. Before installing, the app saves a copy of your data.
  • Find duplicates. Font menu → Find Duplicates… If a font sits in several folders, one click moves the extra files to the Trash. Tags and favorites move to the copy that stays.
  • “Untagged” filter. Shows fonts you haven’t sorted into tags yet.
  • The Google Fonts showcase opens sorted by popularity, most used fonts first.
Improved
  • The app remembers the sort order between launches. Your library and the Google showcase each keep their own.
Fixed
  • Active fonts no longer disappear if you turn a font on right after launch and quickly quit.
  • Double-clicking a font that is already in your library no longer makes a copy. A new version of a font replaces the old one and keeps its tags.
  • Updating a .sxfont collection correctly removes fonts that are no longer in it.
  • “Restart” no longer opens a second copy of the app.
  • Backups are safer: a good backup is never overwritten after a failure.
  • Plus more than ten small fixes.

To get 2.1 from version 2.0 or earlier, download it from the website and install it over the old one. After that, updates arrive on their own.

2.0

September 18, 2026

Font collections in one file

New
  • The .sxfont format. Share a collection of fonts with their presentation images as a single file. A double-click shows how many fonts are new and how many you already have. An updated collection goes into the same folder instead of a new one.
  • Gallery. Browse fonts by their presentation images.
  • Arrow keys. Move between cards and around the sidebar with the keyboard.
  • Variable fonts. Axis sliders: two on the card, all of them in the right panel.
  • Tooltips with keyboard shortcuts when you hover over buttons.
  • Drag tags and folders to put them in your own order.
  • The preview text in the right panel can differ from the cards.
Fixed
  • A cover named “1.jpg” is found just like “01.jpg”. Some fonts used to show no cover.
  • Double-clicking a font or collection file opens the app window. Sometimes it didn’t appear.
  • The backup on quit checks all of your data, not just part of it.

1.5.3

July 30, 2026

Improved
  • Search works like Spotlight: fonts whose names start with what you typed come first.
  • ⌘⇧A and ⌘⇧D turn on and off all selected fonts, not just one.
  • Turning on a hundred fonts is faster and shows a progress bar.
  • Bold fonts no longer end up among thin ones in the weight filter.
Fixed
  • Tags no longer disappear when updating from an older version.
  • Five more rare cases where folders, favorites or active fonts could be lost.

1.5.1

July 29, 2026

New
  • Google Fonts showcase. Browse and turn on Google fonts right in the app, no manual downloads.
  • Tags, favorites and filters by language, weight and category.
  • The app figures out each font’s category (serif, script and others) by itself.
Improved
  • The grid and list scroll more smoothly, and the size slider no longer lags.