In my design work, one thing kept bothering me: how much time it took to find fonts, try them, and decide whether they actually fit.

I would search for fonts online, download them, install them on my Mac, prepare some text in a design tool, and apply the font. Then, if it felt like "this isn't quite right," I would go back to the browser and keep searching. That cycle happened again and again, almost every time a new project came up.

To make things worse, fonts I ended up not using would pile up. Before I knew it, my Mac was full of fonts I did not really use. Later, I would often find myself wondering, "What was that font I was looking at for that project?" and searching all over again.

I wanted to get rid of that friction, so I built stac, an app for designers to compare and organize fonts.

stac lets you compare the fonts already on your Mac and more than 1,900 font families available on Google Fonts in one place. Because you can try Google Fonts without installing them first, you can cut down on that "download, install, realize it doesn't fit, go back to the site" cycle.

You can also save fonts with tags like "logo" or "headline," so it is easier to find them again later.

To spend less time searching for fonts, and more time thinking about design. stac is a Mac app built from that idea.