6 Free Font Management Tools For MAC And PC

In this post, we have tried to include most unique and state of the art font management tools. We will give you good account of the websites which offer such facility and the review will help you determine the best place depending upon your requirement.

Linotype FontExplorer X (Win / Mac, free)



Linotype This is a great font management tool with huge font library. All fonts can be used with keywords. You can request fonts with auto activation. You can make powerful font management with built in online store. It has a unique feature of growl support.

Opcion (Win / Mac / Solaris / Linux, free)



Opcion Font Viewer is a free open source font viewer written in Java. You can view installed and uninstalled fonts, mark fonts as favourite and preview fonts with a customizable sample/display text. Opcion is a very basic and simple font management tool. Its main advantage lies in the fact that it will work on all platforms. Hence, in case you need to look a font up, it may be the optimal quick’n'dirty solution.

The tool provides a default view that allows you to view one font at a time, and a list view which allows you to view multiple fonts at a time. The favourites list can then be saved for future reference or used in finding out the file names of fonts you wish to install. Opcion Font Viewer requires Java 1.4.0+ to run.

Font Frenzy (Win, free)



Font Frenzy You can re-install your desired fonts in Font Frenzy and also remove fonts with DeFrenzy. You can view preview of fonts. It has user friendly font manager which allows you to put your fonts in specific collection.

Font Xplorer (Win, free)



Font Xplorer helps you to preview both installed and uninstalled fonts from font collection. You can also filter fonts by character sets. The common font problem can be repaired with Integrated Repair Wizard. Support for all external programs is available.

AMP Font Viewer 3.82 (Win, free)



AMP Font Viewer 3.82 is a simple free font manager, which allows getting a quick overview of both installed and non installed fonts. You can install fonts from a folder into the system or temporarily (until the program is closed). There are also standard options for organizing fonts in categories and managing them.

fontBROWSER For Mac



fontBROWSER: This flash application will allow to quickly preview the fonts active on your system. That’s awsome!

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