Open directory - Fonts - Software

Design and Creation (8)

Absolute Fonter Viewer - Font management utility that uses an HTML like interface for viewing and printing fonts.

Acentos y otras yerbas - Character Map and Equivalences - Software shows all the 256 ASCII character set available from the selected font, and the decimal, hexadecimal, binary and octal equivalencies, and the needed keystrokes, including the control's characters.

Adobe Type Manager Deluxe - Font manager for True Type and Type 1 fonts.

Advanced Font Viewer - Basic program that allows all fonts installed on a system to be viewed simultaneously, with example text written in each font displayed alongside. Print out samples of the text, in all accessible variants of writing. [Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP]

AL Font Installer - Install new fonts on the computer quickly and easily. Look at any font, and how it will be installed on the computer.

Bitstream Inc. - btX is a font subsystem that brings sophisticated font capabilities to the X Windows environment. btX gives Linux the same font presentation as that found on the Macintosh and Windows.

EuroCheck - Checks your fonts and operating system for support of the Euro symbol. Freeware.

Font Management and ATM Deluxe - Training CD which provides an understanding of both screen and printer fonts, ATM Deluxe and working with PostScript, TrueType, and Multiple Master fonts.

Font Properties Extension - An extension that adds several new property tabs to the Windows' font properties dialog box, including 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 Runner - Font management tool that allows one to use TrueType fonts without having to install them.

Font Utilities - Advanced Font Catalog is an easy to use tool with explorer-like interface which allows you to catalog the drives with fonts files. Windows shareware.

Font Wrangler - A shareware font manager from Alchemy Mindworks Inc. that will install, remove, rename, print a contact sheet and browse TrueType fonts under Windows 95/98/2000/NT, with batch processing and visual previews.

FontExpert - The first typeface identification software, recognizing more than 25,000 typefaces, available on CD-ROM and as online service on the web.

FontExpert 2003 - Windows font manager, and viewer for Adobe Type 1 and TrueType fonts.

Fontlinge Fontmanager - Searches for font files, sorts them into folders, and stores the information in a database. Web interface and tarball font download provided.

FontMap - Shareware application to view installed and external fonts or preview and install fonts.

FontShow 2000 - A small program useful for viewing the TrueType fonts installed on your Windows system.

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.

The Free & Clear Demo - Steve Gibson explains subpixel rendering as used in Microsoft ClearType, shows how it originally worked on the Apple II, and provides a 35k Windows program to experiment with subpixel rendering.

The Freetype Project - A free, quality and portable font engine/driver for TrueType fonts.

High-Logic Font Software - Offers the MainType font management and FontCreator font creation software.

Identifont - Online typeface identifier. Users are guided through a series of illustrated multiple-choice questions of features of a font to arrive at a font identification. Covers fonts from over 200 publishers; typefaces can also be looked up by name.

Insidersoftware.com - Makers of FontAgent, SiteSqueeze and ServerMatic. Depending on the product, versions exist for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS's 8, 9 and X. Free trials.

Libertine Open Fonts Project - Aims to provide True Type alternatives for fonts like Times New Roman. The fonts are published under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Lose Your Mind Development - Publishers of Printer's Apprentice, a professional font manager for TrueType and Adobe Type 1 font files, and other font utilities for Microsoft Windows.

MyTools - Shareware package that views fonts (installed or not), prints font catalogs, manages fonts, and installs and uninstalls fonts quickly.

Sub-Pixel Font Rendering Technology - A complete and clear explanation of Microsoft's 'ClearType' Technology, including a freeware demo application.

True Type Font to Postscript type 1 Converter - Converts nearly all True Type fonts to an Adobe Type 1 .pfa file.

Truedoc.com: Bitstream Dynamic Fonts - Overview of Bitstream's dynamic font technology, FAQs, examples, free downloadable samples and information on Bitstream WebFont Maker software.

TTf Manager Version 3 for Windows - Install and uninstall fonts in a click, set groups of fonts, and find and check fonts.

Typograf Font Manager - 32-bit app that preview, print, and manage TrueType and Type 1 fonts. Sort font previews by filename, directory, font name, size, date, kerning pairs or copyright. [Win 95/98/NT/2000]

Universal Typeface Converter - Font conversion program for anyone who needs more typefaces, wants to create new variations of fonts, or wants to use their typefaces in a broader variety of applications.

Windows 95 Font Smoother - System enhancement to makes text easier to read and more pleasant to look at.