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Armando:
I've had to play with fonts recently and I realized I was ill equipped...

So started to look for good font managers -- Will be downloading and installing Veign's Cfont Pro and check it out (looks very good BTW  :up:). I used to have Bitstream Font Navigator, a long long long while ago. I was young in these days.

Anyway. I found many rather recent and informative global (even if incomplete) reviews. Here are 2 of them :


http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-font-manager.htm

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/09/05/25-font-management-tools-reviewed/


But no reviews are good without some DCers comments and opinions... I know there are a few threads on fonts and realted stuff around here. But it's always fun to ask : what's your take, font experts ? Any all time favorite ?

[edited by mouser: added screenshot]

fenixproductions:
Long time ago I've used to use X-fonter (http://www.blacksunsoftware.com/xfonter.html).

It was the best free tool which allowed to see non-installed fonts and search using custom filters rules.
The last free version can be downloaded here:
http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/util/fonttools.html

Currently I don't need such tool and I am using Total Commander's lister plugin for easy fonts preview.

Grorgy:
I found a free one somehow called The Font Thing, what i like about it is it lets you look at previews of a selection of fonts at one time, its free but it is old, its from about 1999 2000, the lady who wrote it doesnt seem to be at all active on her website but the program works fine on all versions of XP anyway, never tried it on Vista, this is its page http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scef/ 

Paul Keith:
I don't really know anything about font managers so I just did a Google, found the first result to be AMFP Font Viewer and tried that and it works so I settled on it.

http://www.ampsoft.net/utilities/FontViewer.php

PhilB66:
NexusFont (Freeware & Portable, Runs on 2000/XP/2003/Vista)

Features:

* Supported Font Types: TrueType, TrueType Collection, OpenType, Adobe Type1.

* Install/Uninstall fonts: install fonts into system or uninstall fonts from system.

* Find Duplicate Fonts: find duplicate fonts in folders and delete unnecessary font files.

* Print: print fonts list with user defined sample text

* Export as Image: export font list as an image with user defined sample text

* AntiAliasing: supports antialiasing for designers

* Rename: Rename font files with their font name

* Copy/Move/Delete: manages font files

* Favorite Fonts: manages fonts by favorite groups

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