With dp4 Font Viewer you'll be able to browse all the text fonts installed on your system. The preview function displays a complete set of characters but also allows you to enter a custom text. You can filter the font lists by name, weight, type or class, thus making more accurate searches.

Take a look at what this program features:

• Displays all TrueType fonts in any folder
• Has its own TrueType render engine with 256 subpixel anti-alias
• Filters for font type / class / width / weight
• Choose between ASCII or glyph display, it is possible to enter your own text
• Shows unicodes and keys
• Simple management functions - install, delete, display font information
• Multi language executable - germnan and english
• List sub folders
• Print function for single font and for complete font list
• No installation required, very small program

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The standard font manager included in Windows is not certainly very comfortable to use. In fact we could say there's no such manager, as the only thing you can do is to enter the Fonts folder and open each file one by one to see what they look like.

So if you're looking for a true font manager, you should give Fontexpro a try. This is truly a font manager that allows you to go over the fonts currently installed on your system and also check how they look either with a complete character set or a using a customized text string.

Now, when you launch the program you may see a black window and no fonts on it. This is because the program needs to 'read' the contents of the fonts folder before displaying them on the interface, Simply click on File > Browse Windows Fonts Folder and you'll see all your fonts listed on the program, besides a preview on the right pane.

Fontexpro doesn't include any other features or utilities besides displaying fonts. What's more, the program was a bit unstable during our tests: it took ages to display the selected font and sometimes didn't show all characters.

Although Fontexpro is a better tool to review fonts than the one featured in Windows, it still needs improvement in stability and design.

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If you consider yourself a font junkie, it's about time you create your own personal style in fonts.

With Fony you can design a complete text font from scratch, including all the necessary characters and selection also the appropriate font family and correspondent charset. The process can be a bit tiring as you need to create each character one by one, but it's also very rewarding: in the end, you'll be able to use your very own digital handwriting. Other than that, the program looks quite basic both in appearance and functionality, with a scarce settings menu and a simple font previewing tool.

Besides creating a font from scratch, you can also import any font that is currently installed on your system – including True Type ones. On the downside, it's a pity you can't export your newly created font to that same format, True Tyoe; you can only save them as bitmap or BDF fonts.

Fony is a simple, easy-to-use font creation tool that unfortunately doesn't enable you to save fonts as True Type.

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Choosing an appropriate font for a given text can be a real pain, so you better count on an application like Font Picker to help you do the job.

This easy tool has one single window (no setting options or any other extra menu whatsoever) where it displays two or three different fonts from the ones you have in your system, depending on the number of columns you select.

The window doesn't have a maximization button and it doesn't resize properly, which sometimes makes it difficult to manage the program. On the positive side, Font Picker allows to see fonts with a sample text or the character map, as well as apply text format effects and change text and background color.

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FastFontPreview is a freeware font manager for Windows. It contains only basic functions for font management - very fast preview both uninstalled or installed fonts by folder from drives,CD's or DVD's, and quick one - click font installing.

FastFontPreview supports management with True Type and Open Type fonts with (*.ttf ) extension, which are recently used font types.Raster,Vector and PostScript Type1 (Adobe) fonts, FastFontPreview shows only if they are installed.

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Lipikar is a simple but unique desktop authoring tool for Windows™ ANSI/ASCII fonts. It is independent of languages or keyboards and can be used to create short passages of text quickly in any language without any keystroke.

How does it work? Simply start Lipikar and select any installed font. Lipikar will lay out a grid of all the 'typeable' characters, that is, ASC(32) through ASC(255), of that font. Click on any character on the grid and it gets copied to a composing area. Compose your passage by clicking one character after another. After you are done, you can transfer your entire composition to your favorite word processor at one shot and format it there at your will.

Apart from the diverse languages and scripts of India such as Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kodagu, Lahnda, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu etc., Lipikar can also be used with any other non-English language such as Baluchi, Brahui, Dzongkha, Nepali, Sanskrit, Sinhala, Tibetan, Tulu, Urdu etc. or with any non-Roman script such as Cyrillic, Arabian, Georgian, Greek, Mongolian, Hebrew etc. In other words, if you have a font (non-Unicode) installed on Windows, you can use Lipikar to write text with it without the aid of your keyboard.

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You can view any typeface in bold, italic, underline and also 3D. In addition, you can also compare two selected fonts and preview fonts that are not yet installed on your system. FontPage can also print a sample page for selected fonts or print a list of all installed fonts.

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FontFrenzy tames the frenzy of fonts that can clutter and slow down Windows. The DeFrenzy function removes and stores all fonts except those that were present when Windows was first installed. In short, it cleans up your font folder so that Windows boots quicker and runs smoother.

FontFrenzy helps solve the problem of Windows font overload. The special FrenzySnap function enables you to establish "restore points" and re-install the fonts that were in your system on a specific date. FontFrenzy is also a great general font manager. It has the ability to preview, print, add and delete fonts.

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Opening each font file to view its content is quite boring... and extremely time-consuming! When this happened to me, I had no doubt on what i should have done, so I created this little app. Its function is simple: given a folder, it will show you all the fonts it contains.

Simply choose the drive and directory where the font files are located. They will appear on the right, with their file names. Click one file to preview the specified font in the bottom window. You can change the sample text, its size, make it bold or italic. When you notice a font you like, press the "install" button to install it.

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Fontastic is a font viewer with many capabilities that your common font viewer lacks. It is ideal for quickly browsing all your fonts in the search for what you are looking for.

Features:

• Preview font is your actual typed text and not Aa Bb Cc Dd or The quick brown fox ....
• Fonts are scalable up to 500 point
• Support for font coloring
• Support for canvas coloring
• Support for the common bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough attributes
• Able to auto-rotate through the fonts at user specified times
• Print out the formatted text
• "Print Preview" the formatted text
• Ability to paste RTF (Rich Text Formatting) information into Word
• Capable of generating the appropriate HTML to embed into web pages
• Capable of generating the appropriate CSS to embed into web pages

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Font Lister is a freeware program that could be useful if you have hoards of fonts that you do not know what they all look like. You can use it to quickly see what fonts which are available to applications. Rather than spend ages with your word processors trying to find that one fancy font by name you can now figure out the name in a matter of seconds.

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An assortment 16 fonts by Julius Thyssen. Some are rough and edgy, some very modern and renovating. Most are completely new, created from scratch, some are great improvements on existing typefaces. All of the fonts are legal and very well tested! If you use TTF-files, you should try these for sure. The package includes Immortle.fon, a cool system-screen-font for use in Windows.

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In almost every True Type symbol collection there are dozens of arrows and snowflakes, but there are few that contain icons that we use on a day-to-day basis, such as an answering machine, washine instructions or "corresponds to" sign.

This symbol font contains a complete set of symbol characters that you´re sure to use regularly. It includes characters such as audio player control icons, zodiac symbols, male/female icons, plus much more.

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Browse installed and uninstalled TrueType fonts, viewing sample text, individual characters, and detailed font information. Easy font-management functions let you install, uninstall, print, copy, or delete any number of fonts at once. You can even store your own notes with them, filter them according to type (serif, sans serif, and so on), and group them into collections for convenience. This version lets you choose your font colors, set up drop-down lists of standard text samples, rename font files to avoid conflicts, and load fonts temporarily for use without installing them.

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CharMap utility with re-sizeable character display and zoom viewer. This utility enhances the default CharMap program that ships with Microsoft Windows. Features re-sizeable window and zoom panel to make viewing characters easier on the eyes.

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Fix Fonts Folder is a utility that locates and fixes font related problems. It scans all installed fonts and checks the integrity of the fonts related part of the registry. It also repairs the fonts folder and rebuilds Windows font cache.

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FontSuite is a suite of four programs to help you make the most of fonts on your computer, CoolType, FontIndex, CM Pro and Font Comparison. CoolType is a format plain text to create colorful special effects which are ideal for cards, posters, emails, Web sites and more. FontIndex creates and prints a list of the fonts on your system--ideal for finding the ideal font out of hundreds. CM Pro is an upgrade to MS Windows Character Map (big enough to see all the characters). Font Comparison allows you to create and print a table of the characters on your keyboard corresponding to the characters in a symbol font making it ideal for Web site designers.

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FontHit Font Tools is a streamlined font management software package that is designed for virtually unlimited functionality via a flexible plugin framework. With the currently available plugins you can view, preview, install, uninstall, print in color, customize size and text of the previews, browse your hard drive and view fonts in convenient categories, use drag-'n-drop to add font files (even folders and zip files with fonts) to the preview list. You can also search the web for fonts and font-related webpages right from within the Font Tools, using the FontHit Search plugin. FontHit Font Tools supports various font formats such as True Type, Open Type (not multiple master, yet), most Raster(Bitmap) and installed Type 1.

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