Font Viewer renders all installed font families in a scrollable grid view, and allows you to change the size, color, background-color and displayed text, all at the touch of a button. Its built-in listing feature lets you.
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Introduction What do I want from a font manager? View one folder at a time; limited file management; no grouping of fonts.
Other Font Managers There are other products I looked at which I don't recommend for various reasons:. ATM Type Manager Light is discontinued and only useful for a small group of users who need its Type 1 font support. Avoid any version on Windows Vista and higher. Avoid version 4.0 from Windows 2000 onward. Bitstream Font Navigator can be extracted from CorelDraw but as it is not freeware or shareware.
California Fonts Manager is new and has a useful web search feature but was too limited and buggy for me. FontHit Font Tools is discontinued but can still be found. It has some useful features such as predefined categories. But not enough to make this list.
Related Products and Links You might want to check out these articles too:. Editor This software review is copy-edited. Please help edit and improve this article. Please rate this article. If you try NexusFont (it only runs on Windows) on Windows 10 and the scanning of font folders and collections is slow (e.g.
More than a second or two with only a handful of fonts) then disable the Windows Font Cache Service (FontCache): Open Task Manager. You can right-click on the Task Bar or Start Menu and select Task Manager. Select Services tab to see running services. If FontCache is running then right-click and select Open Services (alternatively run services.msc). Find Windows Font Cache Service then right-click and select Properties. Change Startup Type to Disabled The Service Status should be Running so change it to Stop.
or to post comments. I tried using a which is multiplatform (Windows, Mac, Linux) and has a free option. Despite glowing recommendations, I rapidly uninstalled it because the free product is full of basic problems including the following:. Necessary features are not available for free use, e.g. FontBase does not allow the viewing of all glyphs/characters in a typeface. I couldn't use the keyboard for most simple actions. Folders too limited: You can copy in font folders but they wouldn't update when other fonts were added to the folders; If you recopy the folder to reflect the updated font files then FontBase created a copy; I couldn't rename the folders.
or to post comments. A lot of research went into this page - thanks! For me, one of the primary criteria for a font manager is that it automatically puts fonts in categories, as in: serif, sans-serif, fixed-width, script, decorative, other. This is immensely helpful when looking for a alternative font.
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None of the freebies do this. I'm still using PCMag.com's FontViewer 2, which they temporarily gave as a freebie way back in 2001, and it still works perfectly on Win 8.1. So if any font manager programmers look here for ideas, there you go.
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