Previewers

FontPeeper  is a small, easy to use tool which sits on your desktop much like a plug-in and provides you with quick access to viewing your fonts whether they be PostScript, TrueType or Raster. It also allows you to preformat text in its preview window before dropping it into your DTP programs using the clipboard. US$19.95

Fonter previews fonts on screen or prints them in several ways. Create BMP files of individual characters, font comparisons, and more. US$20 from OSOSoft.

FontViewer - lets you browse all the fonts on your system at once, compare selected fonts with each other, and use a variety of filters to find the font you want quickly.

Golden State Graphics has been very prolific in putting out font utilities. On their site you can check out the TypeBook (automatic typeface catalog production), Match This! (personal typeface classification database), the FONDler (font library maintenance and troubleshooting), the FontsBrowser (off-line font browsing), and PicaCalculator (programmable scientific DTP calculator).

SmartFont provides a permanent on-screen display of all the fonts installed on your system in a scrollable list, with each font shown using its own typeface. You can easily make the window small enough to hide on the caption bar of your favorite DTP or Word-processor program. Double-click on any displayed font and a secondary window opens showing the contents of the clipboard in that font

FontSelector is a simple freeware font viewer for the 32-bit Windows Family (Windows 95, 98, NT4 and NT5). It gives you a quick and easy way to browse and print all your installed fonts. Freeware.

IC Font 1,2 (1,2 MB) is an advanced, fast font-viewing utility with an easy user interface. You can view detailed information on your screen- and printer fonts, compare them, sort them, print them, view ASCII codes for a specific font, customize the appearance of the program, and more.

Font-O-Matic 1,04 (800 Kb) Allows you to quickly browse all your installed system fonts simultaneously by displaying each in its own font face. Display the entire character set with their decimal and hexadecimal equivalents; 4 different reports with on-screen preview allows  you to print a list of installed printer or screen fonts, a single font sample sheet, and the full ASCII character set of any selected font. Efficient coding gives you all this in a compact program with no run times required.

Printouts - programs that print font tables or specimen booklets

Printer's Apprentice has tools for printing specimen pages and font lists for fonts on CD-ROMs and other media. You can look at every character in a font, see how the font looks in a paragraph, find symbol characters on a keyboard, and more! $25

fonttest Font Test is simply a program to print out your installed fonts - some or all -   you select which fonts you want printing and press print - and out come your  fonts, 1 per line.

FontPage 2.0.3 (675 Kb): Examine and compare all fonts on your system, view them with all type specifications available (bold, italic, underline a.o. as well as in 3D) and print a fontpage of any installed font on your PC.

FONTKAT Font Cataloger 3.0 for WordPerfect is designed to create a custom catalog of all fonts available to WordPerfect. With the printed catalog showing samples of all your fonts you will be able to quickly and easily choose the font which is just right for the job at hand.

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