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Anyone who's ever used fonts creatively (even just selecting a nice one for your word processing document) know this scenario:

• You have some great fonts on your computer.
  
• They're mixed in with 1000 other fonts that don't match what you're doing.
  
• To find the font you need, you sit there clicking "next" 1000 times, unblinking until your eyeballs bleed waiting for "The One".

In professional font management programs, tagging is vital. Many sources (such as open font library) already have the fonts tagged. Almost every user understands how to tag things.

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to tag any font in apps like Kword, Karbon etc and then later just browse by tag?

Imagine when you needed a "Fancy" "Script" "Sans Serif" font in Kword, being able to click on a filter icon next to the font chooser, tick the tags you want and just see the correct 14 fonts in the dropdown instead of the 1000 fonts on your system.

What I'm asking you to vote on is the idea above. Beyond that though, imagine if the new versions of GHNS fed popular tags back to Open Font Library (with permission) so font tagging became crowd sourced and most people never even had to add font tags in the first place for many fonts. Finally we could get rid of the hours of dredging through 1000's of irrelevant fonts, making it fast easy and fun.

So, who would like to better be able to find the perfect font massively faster?

Sounds like a good idea to me, when playing with the window manager in various distro's of Linux I always found it frustrating finding a font to suit the look I was looking for. I guess this is on a similar level.