Freeware Directory

Freeware - Free Font Tools

FontViewer lets you preview the fonts you just downloaded without spending too much precious time. You can say goodbye to long hours spent evaluating your brand new collection of fonts, preview them and install only the ones you want to keep. You don't need a degree in computer science to use FontViewer and it will not mess with your system registry!

Do you have a disorganized font collection that you'd like to sort out? Start by giving the font files names that are simple and clear and correspond to the full font names. For example, you can rename MLON_I.TTF to Milion Italic.ttf. This name speaks for itself, it is simple and clear!

Use My CharMap to view characters in specific fonts, copy them to the clipboard and then to your application, resizes to allow you to view each character set clearly and also includes a magnify panel that will zoom your character even more.

Horizon5 Font Viewer is one of those useful tools that lets you pick any font installed on your system and check out how it will appear in a range of sizes and styles and against a background of any colour. This is particularly useful when you are word processing or creating graphics and you do not wish to experiment directly on the document you are producing. The Font Viewer will work with all flavours of 32bit Windows.

AMP Font Viewer is an easy-to-use but powerful font manager, designed to obtain a quick view of all fonts on the system (installed or not) and also has several options to easily organize fonts in categories. It can print custom list of fonts, install new fonts (all in a directory or only selected fonts), uninstall fonts, and view installed and uninstalled fonts at the same time.

FontPage lets you examine and compare all of the fonts on your system. 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.

FontsOnCD is a powerful font browsing utility that allows you to browse your TrueType fonts without wasting system resources. Major FontsOnCD feature - tiny size and ability to write a program on CD jointly with your font collection for automatic browsing. You can place FontsOnCD in any folder of your CD image and the program will show all TrueType fonts existing on disk starting in the root disk folder. Also you can place path for FontsOnCD to autorun file and program will start automatically when you close the CD tray.

Use FontList to view all installed fonts in your web browser. It's usually very hard to get a nice overview of all your installed fonts, with FontList you can easily create an HTML file to show all your fonts in your web browser. FontList lets you change the sample text, exclude seldom used fonts from the list and change the path for the HTML file. FontList then opens up your web browser to show you all your fonts.

Opcion Font Viewer is a free Java based application that allows you to view both installed and uninstalled TrueType fonts on Windows, Linux, Unix or Mac. View fonts, see how they would appear applied to your name/logo/tagline, and keep track of which fonts best suit the job, that is the purpose of Opcion Font Viewer. Opcion allows you to view both installed and uninstalled fonts individualy or many at a time.

Protaxis BestFonts is a small freeware utility that will allow you to preview installed fonts, organize fonts in font groups, send font files by e-mail, and pack fonts in zip archives.

AFont is a utility that allows you to view the fonts installed on your system. You simply enter a phrase and the program shows this phrase in different fonts. You can View all Fonts; Print the list of fonts; Print sample text of a font; View sample text in all available fonts; Copy and paste characters to another program; Compare different fonts; Sort fonts; View favorite fonts.

Looking for a font you've seen but don't know what it's called, need some help? Ray Larabie's site has a huge collection of free fonts plus a 'font forum', also links to do a Font Search at 'Fonts.com' or browse thousands of fonts at 'MyFonts.com'. If you're really not sure what you're looking for, 'Identifont' can help you locate it.

CharView by BB is a VB6 application which allows EASY viewing of your system fonts. Very handy when using the graphics in Dingbats and Wingding type fonts where the problem is knowing which key makes the picture you want. CharView by BB lets you select the font you want to view then highlight the character you want. The equivalent key name is displayed in a text box as well as the ASCII code.

Tired of clicking through all the fonts when trying to create a nice text layout? Here's the solution! This little program shows all the fonts that are installed on your Windows system. The text that includes the fonts can be copied to the clipboard for further formatting and printing with a word processing program. This text can also be stored to the file "AllFonts.rtf".

This is a simple font browser which displays a preview of all the fonts installed in your system, making it easy to choose a suitable one. It also allows you to test each font and have a global view of the full character map of each font.

Font Compare is a handy little utility that allows one to compare three true-type fonts at a time and to easily see whether a font contains all the numbers and punctuation, as well as the international characters needed for writing French. The fonts must be already installed on the system. A necessity for anyone who wants to thoroughly examine a font before using it in a document.

Font Viewer makes use of a clean, tabbed interface to display a variety of interesting information about your installed typefaces. Select a font name from a drop-down box and get details on encoding, strings, copyright, trademark, creation, and embedding. You can also view (but not print) a customizable font sample and use two Character-Map-like windows to check out a typeface's character set and copy individual characters to the Clipboard.

Another font viewer. Main features: Lists all fonts, scripts and styles. Shows ALL characters availible in the ANSI and Unicode version of the font. Uses TextOutW, TextOutA and SetText to display the characters (the result can differ!). A font can be loaded temporary.