I'm retired and don't need 2K fonts at my fingertips any more.
I'm always amazed by huge font libraries. (I remember one poster with 10k fonts, and I imagine that there are bigger libraries than that.)
Oh dear lord yes. Go check out a newspaper or publisher's computer.
One of my first big "on-site" jobs was to a newspaper. We were upgrading their computers and sooooo many fonts, scattered everywhere. One of their biggest problems was they'd pass off a document to someone else and the font would change, because they didn't have one specific font on their computer as the author did.
And they had fonts that were TWO font-types back from current, I'm amazed they still worked at all. We ended up buying Font Foundary (iirc) for them for its organizing, collecting, combining, and error checking. I think I ran 8 computers through there, each of which had 3-7 different folders of fonts at up to 15,000 fonts in a folder)
after deleting corrupt fonts, updating types, merging families, fixing names, and deduping, I think I had one master folder of 34,000 fonts to distribute to all the computers. Took all day!
