| The
Font Thing
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AbleStable®
Product Award
The Font Thing receives our 5 Star Product Award.
This is a great font viewer and management application
with the most intuitive interface we came across. |
Software
Developer: S C E Fisher
Description: A freeware program for managing
TrueType fonts.
System Requirements: Windows 95, 98 NT 4.0,
and XP
Long Description
Each font window has two main parts: a navigation
panel on the left, where you select the fonts you
want to view or manage, and a viewing panel on the
right, where you choose how you want to view the selected
font. Several font windows may be open simultaneously.
The screen layout and font browsing settings are saved
on exit and restored when you next run the program.
• Browse installed
and uninstalled fonts
• Browse fonts in
subfolders as a single combined list
• View sample text
and individual characters in your choice of colours
• Change sample
text "on the fly"
• View detailed
font information
• Print font samples
• Associate notes
with fonts
• Install or uninstall
any number of fonts at once
• Load (and unload)
any number of fonts for temporary use
• Copy or delete
any number of font files at once
• Rename font files
to avoid file name conflicts
• Filter fonts according
to their type
• Group fonts into
collections for easier management
• Use multiple font
windows simultaneously for easy comparison
• Help file
•
Visual indication of installed fonts.
• Browse for folders,
or enter paths directly.
• Combine fonts
in a folder and its subfolders into a single list
for browsing
• Drag and drop
(within The Font Thing, and from Windows Explorer
etc.)
• Commands on the
main menu and tool bar
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Clipboard support
(copy and paste font files, to and from The Font Thing)
• Context menus
Font Filtering
One of the most useful features of The Font Thing
is to apply a filter so that only fonts of certain
types are shown, using any combination of the following:
• Serif
• Sans Serif
• Monospaced
• Script
• Decorative
• Pictorial
• Other
The right window element has five tabs: Sample; Multiple;
Characters; Font Info; and Notes.
Single Font Sample,
Saved Text Samples
Browse any of the font lists using the mouse or arrow
keys, or type a font name to jump directly to the
closest match.
Multiple Font Sample,
Custom Colours
The multiple sample view provides another useful way
of browsing and comparing fonts. It displays sample
text in many fonts at once, showing either:
• The selected fonts
from the current font list
• All fonts in the
current font list.
• Change the font
size from 4 to 128 points.
Character Zoom
Zoom in on individual characters from the character
set view. The settings for showing ASCII values and
plain text characters are are carried through to the
zoomed display.
Information contained within the font file is displayed
on the Font Info page under the following headings:
• Name Details
• Version
• Copyright
• Trademark
• Vendor
• Designer
• Description
• License
• Basic Typographical
Metrics
• Windows Metrics.
Font Notes
You can display and edit notes for fonts, for instance
the readme or license information files distributed
with fonts, or your own notes such as what a font
would be good for, where you've used it, etc.
Fonts can be listed in as many collections as you
wish, without duplicating or otherwise affecting the
font files themselves.
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