I love my Inkscape (*hugs*)

Something that I keep wasting bucketloads of time on is finding the font I need for it though. I'm no typographer and know almost none of the language (other than maybe serif and kerning). I usually have a pretty clear idea of the exact look I'm after, but with four figure numbers of fonts on my computer my current methods seem to take me hours to find one font if I don't already know the name. This is even if I'm looking for an exact font I've used before! I've tried:

1. Using the font dropdown selector:
Tiny preview of the actual font, cut off and using font name not my text

2. Selecting the text, using ctrl+shift+t, increasing the font size and then clicking down arrow repeatedly to see the the each font
Can only see 1 font at a time. It takes a *long* time to click, view and evaluate thousands of fonts one.at.a.time.

3. Using other apps like Font Matrix:
At least this gives me a big size preview of every font, but it still means I need to look at *every* font to find *any* font.


So what workflow does everyone else (with over 300 fonts) use to find the font they need? For example if you saw a font on a magazine that would look great in your current project, how would you go about finding the name of the most similar font already in Inkscape? I'd love to hear, as this is wasting me *hours*!

Thankyou!

There's a service What the font that might help in some cases http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

I guess you have to invest time into tagging the fonts in FontMatrix so you don't have to go through all of them when searching for a font, narrow them down using tags then preview and search.