

WEB FREEWARE
 Font Utilities
Adobe Type Manager
- From adding fonts and creating custom sets to
getting crisp, clean output from any printer, ATM
Deluxe is packed with powerful features that make
font management fast and easy and that leave you
free to concentrate on your content. (MAC and PC)
Adobe Type Reunion
- OpenType font support and Unified support for Mac
OS 8.1 through 9.0.
Advanced Font Viewer
- Comfortable and free way to preview the fonts
installed on your system.
AL Font Installer
- This program is addition to the control panel
Windows Fonts. It provides more convenient way for
installing a new fonts on your computer.
Apple Font Manager
- The Font Manager Update extension
fixes numerous problems related to the Mac OS 8.6
Font Manager. Under certain circumstances, the Font
Manager in Mac OS 8.6 may create a corrupt resource
inside some applications or fonts.
Bitstream
- Bitstream's btX2 is a ground-breaking font
subsystem that brings sophisticated font
capabilities to Linux and Unix.
BitFonter
- BitFonter is FontLab's Professional tool for
bitmap font development
D-Type - Technology for super
smooth graphics.
e-Signature - Access your
signatures and logos directly from your font menu...
Eurocheck
- EuroCheck checks
your fonts, printer, keyboard and operating system
for euro symbol support.
Extensis Suitcase - The world’s
#1 font manager, Suitcase lets you and your
workgroup share, organize, preview, and
automatically activate your fonts. Suitcase does all
the hard work. You just keep designing.
FantaMirror - $30 / Windows -
converts pictures into texts of any fonts and any
characters
FontAgent
- the first product specifically created to help
you organize, manage & repair your fonts and gives
you an optimized font library you can depend on plus
a Mac system free of font-related crashes &
lock-ups. (MAC)
FontAgentPro - Insider FontAgent
Pro is the only font manager that you’ll ever need
for Mac OS X, combining powerful, yet simple font
management with its unrivaled, award-winning
integrity checking that solves font problems fast.
FontBook
- The ultimate font utility for every MacOS user
who wants a complete overview about all his fonts.
(MAC)
FontBuddy - FontBuddy 2 is a
font viewer. It shows and prints all the characters
of any installed font.
Font
Checker
- The FIRST Font
inspection utility for Mac OS X that understands
unicode.
Font
Creator Program - With this
application you can create and edit TrueType font
files.
Font
Effects
- (Free to Try, $12 to
Buy) - Text creation tool that produces graphics for
use in presentations and on the Web. You can deform
the text and use textures. Use shadow and edge
effects to make the text look fantastic! You can
also add a border and a background texture. The
result can be printed or saved.
Font Expert
- Simply scan your sample in, allocate the correct
names to a couple of characters and let FontExpert
do the searching. In a few seconds, the font name
and the font manufacturer are displayed. (PC)
Font
Explorer
- Font Explorer makes
it easier and faster to find specific characters in
a font. It shows all the characters of your fonts in
an interactive grid. Its zoom feature lets you see
all the details of the glyphs.
Font Folder Fixer 2
(Win 95/98/ME/NT )
- If your Fonts folder has become corrupt and the
"Install New Font" option is not available, Font
Folder Fixer will repair it. Font Folder Fixer
restores the following: Install New Font option,
Open and Print options, Correct names of fonts,
Fixes problems with fonts not showing up
Font
Fusion
- Font Fusion is
Bitstream's latest, most advanced font rasterizing
engine, a font subsystem that renders high-quality
characters in any format, at any resolution, on any
device.
Font
Image Library(MAC) - ($10) This
program helps you keep track of all your fonts. It
identifies and loads all of the fonts installed in
the system and shows exactly what each font looks
like. It also prints out great font sample lists.
Font Lab
- Fontlab sells software for editing, converting,
designing, and manipulating digital typefaces and
font families.
FontLister
- Never have trouble finding a font for a
special task again. You'll be able to browse all of
your fonts easily, even fonts that haven't yet been
installed. (PC)
Font
Map - FontMap may be used to
view and print both installed and external fonts; it
can display a table, individual characters, a
keyboard view, font description, or whatever text
you wish to enter. Individual characters can be
displayed in a "full-screen" view and custom table
parameters can be set to "zoom" in on a selected
portion of a font.
Font Navigator
- Font Navigator gives you a quick and easy way to
find fonts, install those fonts, organize fonts into
manageable groups, and view and print font samples.
(PC)
Font
Properties Extension - If you
right click on a font file in Windows its basic
properties are displayed. This extension adds
several new property tabs to this properties dialog
box. These include information relating to font
origination and copyright, the type sizes to which
hinting and smoothing are applied, and the code
pages supported by extended character sets.
Font Reserve
- The program makes it eminently easier to cope with
large numbers of fonts... Font Reserve's strong
organizational concepts are the future of
font-management programs.
Font
Runner - Font Runner is a
Windows Application designed to help you manage,
preview, install and use TrueType fonts.
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.
FontShow 2000
- FontShow 2000 is
a small program useful for viewing and printing the
TrueType fonts installed on your system. Options are
included to display user-specified sample text in
place of the normal font name and alphanumeric
character set. The size and face of the currently
selected font can be quickly changed and the result
displayed automatically. A printed hardcopy of the
currently selected font can also be produced.
Fonts Manager
- Fonts Manager™
is similar to the Mac OS Extensions Manager, but it
manages Fonts instead. It allows the enabling and
disabling of font suitcases and printer fonts in
'Sets', so you shrink those long Font menus. It
allows you to view, print, and save font samples.
Open and save 'Sets' files for limitless set
configuration and easy upgrade from previous
versions.
Font
Tool
- FontTool converts the
entire character set of a Windows font to a 16 x 16
character map and writes out an uncompressed Windows
BMP. Ideal for using proportional fonts in games and
speed critical apps.
Font
Utilities
- Download Advanced
Font Catalog, Fast Font Set
Font
Viewer
- Font Viewer is a font
utility to list, compare, try and print all
installed fonts on your system
Fontz - A versatile font utility
that allows you to browse your existing fonts, see
what they look like at different sizes, styles and
colors, and even group them in like categories.
Font
Twister - $40 - Create
impressive text effects for web pages, multimedia
projects and presentations.
Font
Wrangler - Windows' facility for
supporting TrueType fonts isn't really matched by
its facilities for managing them.
Free
& Clear Demo
- An Experiment in
Sub-Pixel Font Rendering
Free
Type Project - A free, quality
and portable font engine/driver for TrueType fonts.
GetChar
- This FKEY opens a
window that shows all characters available in the
current font (see picture). Select any character to
insert it in the active document. I've got the idea
to create this FKEY from the popular PopChar control
panel. PopChar is now a commercial utility,
distributed by UNI SOFTWARE PLUS.
IdentiFont - The unique font
identifier that enables you to identify a font from
a sample by answering a series of simple questions.
It is ideal if you want to match an existing
typeface, or identify a typeface you have seen in a
publication.
Insider Software - The only Mac
OS X font manager you will ever need.
LogoTypeMaker - LogotypeMaker
displays a string of text using your currently
installed fonts--one font face per line--with a
single click. It also sorts the fonts lists after
user-defined criteria
M4
Phader
- Mike's Phader is a
small but useful application for use mainly with AOL
or AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), but can also be used
in the design of web pages. It changes the plain
text you type into rich colorful text using HTML
tags, which is the way that AOL and AIM send color
IMs. By taking advantage of their system of
coloring, you can send text that looks like this in
your instant messages to your friends, family, and
co-workers.
Macromedia Fontographer
- Create
royalty-free fonts for print, multimedia, and the
Internet.
Master Juggler Pro
- Gives you access to your entire font library and
lets you store your fonts anywhere. Restore speed
and convenience with MasterJuggler! (MAC)
MyTools
- Shareware package that
views fonts (installed or not), prints font
catalogs, manages fonts, and installs and uninstalls
fonts quickly.
Noah
- The font surgeon. A native Type 1 font editor. It
can be used to open, change and save PostScript Type
1 (PFB) fonts and their metric (PFM) files. [Win
3.1/9x/NT]
PfaEdit - A postscript font
editor that lets you create your own postscript,
truetype, opentype, cid-keyed and bitmap (bdf)
fonts, or edit existing ones. Also lets you convert
one format to another.
Pixel Software - Create and
modify a pixel font library, Convert ttf (true type
font) to pixel font, Convert bitmap to pixel font,
Convert pixel font to bitmap, and Save pixel font
library to a C source file.
Printers Apprentice 7.0
- Printer's Apprentice has tools for printing
specimen pages and font lists for both installed
fonts and uninstalled fonts on CD-ROMs and other
media. You can look at every character of each font,
see how fonts look in a paragraph, find symbol
characters on the keyboard, and more! (PC)
Smooth Type
- Uses a different anti-aliasing algorithm than
Apple uses for their "Smooth all fonts on screen"
option in the Appearance control panel, and many
people think SmoothType gives better results. (MAC)
SoftDesign - Morrison SoftDesign
is a professional software development company
specializing in font software for Apple Macintosh
computers and the publishing industry.
Sub
Pixel
- Font rendering
technology
Suitcase
(Top Pick, $80 - $100
to Buy, Windows and Mac) - Suitcase lets you and
your workgroup share, organize, preview, and
automatically activate your fonts. Suitcase does all
the hard work. You just keep designing.
Suitcase Server (Top Pick, $900,
Windows and Mac) - organizes and distributes
Macintosh and Windows fonts among organizations to
ensure co-workers either next door or across the
country are using the exact same fonts. No more
master font disks!
Sun
Rav
- SunRav Fonter is designed
for viewing fonts, installed on your PC. You simply
enter a phrase and the program shows this phrase in
different fonts. Thus you can clearly see your
phrase written in different fonts.
Text
Sampler - Use Text Sampler to
print a catalog of all your fonts.
TransType
- Used to convert fonts easily from pc to mac or
vice versa. (MAC and PC)
TrueType - Instead of relying on
the default fonts that users have in their browsers,
web authors can now create pages using the fonts
they have on their systems with the assurance that
those pages will display in a browser with their
font formatting intact.
TTF2PT1 - True Type Font to
Postscript Type 1 Converter
Typeset - View installed fonts
to find the best for your project.
Type
Solutions
- The source for the
best font engine and font rasterizer technology!
TypeTamer - TypeTamer is the
next generation of font management tools from
Impossible Software designed to improve the
productivity of all Macintosh users.
Typograf is a Fontmanager
(preview, print, manage truetype and type 1
fonts) with 5-ZDNet-stars : ZDNet wrote about
Typograf: "Typograf is one of the best font
utilities we've seen, commercial or shareware."
Ubique Cataloger - Solve your
TrueType Font Problem. Have you ever wondered why
you have to install your TrueType Fonts before you
view them? Look no further! Viewing and Printing TTF
catalogues has never been easier! Wherever your
TTF's are located, on hard disk, floppy or CD-Rom,
UBIQUE makes them visible to you.
Universal Typeface Converter -
Page Technology Marketing, Inc. (PageTech)
specializes in HP PCL® page description language,
Intellifont®, TrueType™ and PostScript® typeface
conversion utilities and related technology.
Windows 95 Font
Smoother - Now you can make full use
of the benefits of this technology, making text
easier to read and more pleasant to look at, without
having to purchase the Plus! Pack. (PC)
Windows Font Software Reviews
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A select list of recommended Microsoft Windows-based
software for the management, editing, optimization,
troubleshooting, display or creation of computer
typefaces. There are, of course, other such
utilities available, often as shareware, but these
are some of our current and past favorites, listed
by company.
X-Fonter
- This very powerful but easy-to-use tool lets you
view and manage all your fonts. It supports
TrueType, OpenType, Postscript Type 1, Raster and
Vector fonts. You can test any of those fonts in all
color combinations, all styles, all sizes and even a
3D view and a character map with all ASCII and
Unicode characters codes are included. There's a
built-in image editor to create special effects (3D,
Gradient, Outline) for your homepages or emails.
What started out as a simple fontviewer has become a
full-blown font toolkit.
X Font Manager
- X Font Manager is a simple font manager for Mac OS
X.
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