This is a portable tool, meaning that installing it is not a prerequisite. As a consequence, the Windows registry and Start menu/screen are not going to be affected by it in any way.

Can be used directly from a USB flash drive

Aside from that, you can drop the program files to any location on the hard disk in order to run FontViewOK from there, by simply double-clicking the executable. It is also possible to use the software tool on any computer you have access to, by copying the aforementioned files to a portable storage unit, such as a USB flash drive.

The interface is fairly easy to use, for any type of person, regardless of his or her previous experience with computers.

View and compare fonts in custom environments

Upon opening the application, you are going to view a list of all the detected fonts, along with their name and path. You can split the main window in two panels, so as to visually compare fonts. The second section can be set as a clone.

You can modify the background and font color, as well as its size. In addition to that, it is possible to print preview the fonts, make the text appear italic or bold, underline or strike it out.

There are multiple languages supported, such as English, Finnish, Spanish, Polish and Italian. No Help contents are provided, yet seeing how easy it is to use the utility, it becomes apparent they are not needed.

To end with

In conclusion, FontViewOK proves to be a useful piece of software which does not affect your computer’s performance, as CPU and memory usage is minimal. It provides a detailed view of installed fonts on your computer, being worth your while overall.

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FontCreator

A font creator designed to help you build your own signature, logo, and handwriting, or a font to install and use on your computer.

FontCreator is a powerful tool that lets you build and accurately design your own fonts. It can be both used by novices and experts.

An uneventful setup and a standard interface with well-organized toolbars

Once you have initiated the program after a brief installation, you are welcomed by a dialog that guides you to a user manual and FAQ on how to use Font Creator.

The user interface features a relatively straightforward layout, with a set of helpful toolbars that can be customized extensively. You can both change their layout and specify which buttons should be displayed in each one.

Name your font family and start editing characters

To get started, you must enter a name for your font family, and select the font style (regular, italic, bold, bold italic), preferred outline format and predefined outlines (include or do not include outlines).

You can edit a glyph by using the Free Draw Contours tool (adjust brush width and convert to contours), by inserting contours, or by importing an image of your own handwritten characters. Do not worry - the Undo and Redo buttons are at your command.

You can also search for a glyph by its postscript name and by its mappings, set bookmarks in the Glyph Overview and Glyph Edit window, change glyph properties, copy and paste glyphs, add a new character, use glyph metrics to help you design the font, and more.

Easy to use font design software tool fit for any user

First-time users will probably have a hard time getting around this software, but they should read the help file with confidence. It does not take a long time to learn how to use FontCreator, and its comprehensive feature set is explained in detail in the available documentation.

We have not encountered any problems during our tests. In addition, FontCreator uses a small amount of CPU and resources. The fact of the matter is that the software is great for building and designing fonts.

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FontCreator is part of these download collections: Font Editors, Font Managers, Font Creators, Make Font

Character Map UWP

Get to interact with a complex, remarkable font file application that will give you access to a plethora of characters, including typographic and chromatic variants.

Character Map UWP is a perfect program for anyone interested in working with fonts, characters, and their variants. The program has a modern-looking interface with incredible internal architecture and flawless DPI.

A font viewer for everyone

The tool is an incredibly well-built utility for anyone. The program is created with low-level programming languages, C++ and C#. Because of this, Character Map UWP will integrate perfectly with your Windows OS resulting in an overall smoother experience. For the number of features it comes packed with, the file size is considerably small.

Every kind of user will find the program a suitable replacer for the old font application programs such as Character Map or Windows Font Viewer. The amount of complexity Character Map UWP brings makes it suitable for designers, technical writers, web developers, linguists, journalists, students, teachers — basically, anyone who uses digital characters.

Most astonishing aspects

To begin with, the most astonishing quality of Character Map UWP is how it looks. It is the initial point of contact every user has with any given program. The theme is modern, responsive, intuitive, has high contrast, plenty of visual cues and indicators. The fonts are alphabetically arranged, each item is beautifully displayed in a large preview.

The second surprising element is the number of possibilities and the flexibility this tool offers. For each character, you can export/save it in a PNG or SVG format, with a black or white background, copy it to the clipboard, or get access to the more technical aspects that define a character like a glyph code, font, or path icon.

The third surprising element is the complex, fully functional program structure — the search function is amazing with detailed and adaptable suggestions (and customizable results settings), there is the advanced GUI setup, plus the professional font management capabilities offered for both character import and export.

Conclusion

To conclude, Character Map UWP should be your choice no matter the level of complexity you tackle when using fonts/characters/variants. Make it your default font application and you will get increased work speed, performance, and a better overall experience.

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BabelMap

Go through the entire Unicode character grid to search for a specific character with this easy-to-use and small-sized piece of software.

BabelMap is a simple-to use software utility designed to help you find specific Unicode characters by going through an immense collection of numbers, figures, symbols or letters.

Well-organized interface and fast character search engine

The interface of the application is straightforward and displays all the characters included in the Unicode 7.0 standard in a grid-like layout. From the main window, you can select various Unicode blocks from a dropdown list and begin a search query by entering the name of the character you want to look for. Characters can also be found if you enter parts of their name, not necessarily their full name.

You can find characters by their decimal or hexadecimal code point value, as well as view them using the edit buffer as NCR, HTML or UCN escape sequences. Additionally, you can paste letters into the edit buffer and magnify any character within the grid by right-clicking it.

Powerful and useful set of tools

BabelMap includes several lookup utilities that list all Han ideographs or syllables with a given radical and number of strokes. Also, you can view the UCD properties for any character for all versions of Unicode supported by the application. On top of that, you can generate the core UCD data for the Unicode versions used.

Each font or glyph that you find can be exported to your computer as a BMP, GIF, JPG or PNG file. For future reference and easy access, you can bookmark up to 32 characters.

Conclusion

BabelMap provides you with many useful functions and search options that allow you to quickly find the desired character, even if it's a Korean, Vietnamese, Mandarin or Cantonese one. The system's CPU and RAM resources were kept to a minimum during our evaluation and no system errors or crashes were encountered.

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Sure Cuts A Lot Pro

Create interesting designs combining fonts installed on your computer and objects in this application's library and cut the resulting shapes with an electronic machine.

Sure Cuts A Lot Pro provides you with a generous set of drawing instruments and a comprehensive working environment where you can design interesting shapes and cut them with a dedicated electronic machine.

By intelligently combining OpenType and TrueType fonts on your system with items within the rich library of Sure Cuts A Lot Pro and other imported artwork, it can help you basically create anything you can think of.

Support for multiple file types and cutting machines

The application is compatible with hundreds of font styles and provides support for various cutting machines, Black Cat Cougar, Gazelle, eCraft, Ramtin, Silhouette, Silver Bullet to name just some of them.

Sure Cuts A Lot Pro can import files of various formats, such as SVG, PDF, SVGZ, EPS and even AI (Adobe Illustrator). In addition to this, its extended library comprises a diverse selection of fonts and all sorts of shapes organized in different groups for easier access.

A rich palette of drawing tools and design instruments

You can work with different layers and overlap shapes together to make them look more interesting. With just a few clicks, you can completely modify the appearance of your letters by changing the font style and size, color, fill or color letters, add them borders, shadows and so on.

Furthermore, it enables you to transform an object to generate lattice shapes or rhinestones. It features weeding, extruding and tiling options as well.

Create impressing designs out of your fonts

Sure Cuts A Lot Pro is a feature-rich application that bundles all the tools you need in order to transform a simple font into true artwork. Its drawing toolset, the carefully selected assortment of objects, together with a bit of creativity can be the starting point of a project you will be proud of.

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Alphabix

A small utility that was especially designed in order to offer you a means of creating and editing bitmap fonts with minimal efforts.

Also commonly known as image, raster or texture fonts, bitmap fonts are one of the most popular types of fonts out there, partly thanks to their complex look and partly because they are very simple to render.

Offers you all the necessary tools for creating and editing bitmap fonts

Alphabix is a user-friendly and simplistic software solution that aims to help you create, edit and convert bitmap fonts. This fact alone recommends this application to users who want to create dynamic text templates or 3D titles for their websites or BluffTitler projects, for example.

Right after a fast installation process, you can start working on your bitmap fonts within Alphabix's simplistic main window. Despite the somewhat minimalistic looks, the tool comes with a reliable set of useful features and functions, accessible from the toolbar.

Comes with powerful font editors

The application is specifically designed to handle the small details, such as shapes and colors of bitmap fonts.

By working your way through its menus, you can add and change the font characters and the glyph height, as well as access the Glyphs or Kerning editors. The former editor can help you replace the glyphs with PNG, BMP, GIF, TIF and JPG pictures, while the latter one makes it simple for you to adjust the spacing between certain pairs.

Convert almost any font into a bitmap font

In addition, you can convert any TrueType, OpenType and Type 1 fonts installed on your computer's system, remove non-ASCII characters and trim them vertically.

Last but not least, Alphabix makes it possible for you to import Photofonts and to also export your projects as single files, letter cubes cut-outs or HTML, for direct usage on any website.

Comprehensive and efficient font designer and editor

Taking all things into consideration, Alphabix proved itself to be a surprisingly competent software solution for editing and creating bitmap fonts. While at first, its looks might make you think otherwise, Alphabix is one of those applications that puts function before anything else.

For some users this might seem perfect while others might want a more user-friendly interface or a ribbon toolbar to access all the features, it all depends on your taste.

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FontBase

Manage and customize your fonts, as well as quickly build favorite collections with the help of this streamlined and user-friendly software solution.

When it comes to working on large projects that require the usage of multiple fonts, there is no doubt that the best way to get about is with the help of a font manager.

FontBase is a straightforward and smooth-running piece of software designed to make it as easy as possible for you to organize and edit fonts. Subsequent to its surprise-free installation process, you are greeted by a simplistic main window with most of the app's features on display.

User-friendly utility for organizing and editing fonts

Interface-wise, there is not much to be said, as the app is designed to be as streamlined and as easy to use as possible. However, we would like to point out that the app emulates an OS X-specific interface, a fact that some Windows users might find a bit odd.

FontBase offers a quick way to change the color, background, size, height and alignment of your fonts. As expected, besides the predefined packages of fonts, you can also create custom collections or take advantage of the recently added and favorites sections included in the app.

Easily accessible features

It also provides you with a fast way to search for your fonts and an easy method of comparing two fonts by pinning one to the top. Also noteworthy is the fact that the software solution features a live text editing capability that enables you to view changes done to your fonts in real time.

As far as improving your workflow, FontBase enables you to search, edit, and change the font sizes with the help of keyboard and mouse shortcuts. Simply press CTRL + F to activate the search function, Enter for live text editing and use the combination of CTRL + mouse scroll for font size adjustments.

Simple yet efficient font manager

While in a very early development stage and despite the fact that it almost looks like an OS X app, FontBase runs quite smoothly and proved to be quite stable on our Windows-based testing machines.

Therefore, if you are looking for a no muss, no fuss font manager, you should give FontBase a quick spin and see if it fits your needs.

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FontExplorerL.M.

A reliable and easy to use application that enables you to manage the font files on your computer, install the desired designs and preview them as prints.

FontExplorerL.M. is a comprehensive font manager, since it can be used by both professionals and hobby designers. The software enables you to preview a large collection of fonts, that you can organize on your computer, install or view in HTML page mode. It is also suitable for identifying the proper font, given the multiple search filters that can be applied.

Font browsing and previewing tool

With an extensive list of fonts on the left side of the main window, FontExplorerL.M. enables you to preview all the characters contained in a file, at different sizes, in sample texts. You may also view the position of each character on the keyboard, which is useful especially when working with artistic fonts and distorted shapes.

You can easily create a font database, that you can use in other applications. Additionally, you may view the ASCII characters contained in a set, or the special symbols. When a font file is downloaded to your computer, it does not install itself automatically. FontExplorerL.M. can help you correctly install all the fonts you wish, so that they can be recognized by all text editors.

Supporting multiple font types

The software is capable of reading and rendering multiple types and families of font files, including TrueType, OpenType, Postscript, Raster and Vector Fonts. Additionally, it supports Decorative, Modern, Roman, Script and Swiss font families, that include special characters.

The software enables you to easily install, uninstall or move the font files to other locations. Moreover, you can manage the fonts database by adding new files, removing the damaged sets or repairing the invalid registries. The software also features a powerful searching engine that enables you to apply several filters and quickly identify the font you are looking for.

Conclusion

With FontExplorerL.M., you may easily manage all the fonts installed or stored on your computer, organize them in dedicated folders, as well as integrate them with your text editors. You may write full texts in Arabic, Chinese, OEM/DOS or custom alphabets, then preview them as HTML content or as a printed page.

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FontExplorerL.M. is part of these download collections: View Font, View OpenType Font, Open Font

Sure Cuts A Lot

Customize your fonts according to your preferences and add shapes to your collages with the help of this full-featured, yet intuitive application.

Sure Cuts A Lot has a lot of cool features for those who want to create design artworks and want to explore a large list of shapes and models for generating multi-layer models.

The app's graphical user interface and what options you can find

The program's interface features a modern design with a pleasant touch and feel. You can load your own images and use the 'Scan2Cut' option to cut around an existing physical picture, scan, and import it into the application's canvas, to use it as an individual layout or as a separate background.

Moreover, this tool offers plenty of features and has an abundance of shapes, models, and illustrations. All of these are neatly structured in a comprehensive library, on specific categories, like 'Spring,' 'USA,' 'Game,' 'Symbols,' 'Music,' 'Weather,' etc.

Each model you integrate into your canvas can be rotated, maximized, or edited. Moreover, you can draw shapes, linear measurements, insert QR codes, and make use of the crazy amount of font types, shapes, and formats.

What can you use this application for?

Firstly, Sure Cuts A Lot has a diverse set of features that can be used in many situations. For example, this application can be perfect for designers or marketers who would want to create small, easy, and cute messages or visuals.

At the same time, this tool can be used by game developers or designers who would like to create sequences of small squares, tile-like visuals that can later be texturized or used as background for their games/animations.

When it comes to the ways you can export your content, Sure Cuts A Lot offers a diverse set of options for all users. So, depending on your editing needs, you can export your content in SVG, Bitmap, PNG, PDF, JPEG, TIFF, or in the app's proprietary format, FCM (ScanNCut).

Summary

In conclusion, this program is the perfect solution for those who need to generate small artworks with customized background, want to experiment with different design electronic cutting methods, or wish to make tileset sequences with suggestive square-like illustrations.

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Sure Cuts A Lot is part of these download collections: Font Editors, Font Managers, Create TTF, Make TTF

PrintMyFonts

An intuitive application that enables users to preview all the fonts available on their computer and print them or export them to several formats.

PrintMyFonts is a straightforward and portable software application made to help you view and print all installed fonts. It doesn't include complex options or configuration parameters, making it suitable for all user levels.

Portability perks

Since there is no installation involved, you can drop the program files anywhere on the hard drive and just click the executable to launch PrintMyFonts. Otherwise, you can copy it to a removable storage unit to directly run it on any PC with minimum effort. Unlike most installers, it doesn't modify Windows registry settings.

Simple interface and options

The GUI consists of a single window that shows all installed fonts at startup, allowing you to browse the this list and select any font to preview.

By default, the app shows the system fonts too, but they may be hidden from display. Moreover, you can indicate a custom folder or drive to load additional fonts from, show a large box for the font preview, or display the font preview in the list.

Edit characters to print fonts

The bottom part of the main application window lists a string of characters that will be printed, and you can edit it as well as pick the output printer (including PDF printers).

It's possible to customize the color and size of the font preview, switch to a different UI language, as well as to delete any selected fonts from the list, or all entries apart from the selected ones.

Evaluation and conclusion

We haven't come across any difficulties in our tests, thanks to the fact that PrintMyFonts didn't hang, crash or prompt error messages. It left a small footprint on system resources, using low CPU and RAM.

Although it's not equipped with rich options or customization preferences, PrintMyFonts offers a simple and effective solution to viewing and printing installed fonts. Plus, it's free.