Two Free Font Viewers
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While reading Brown Baron’s post last night about DaFont, the site that offers you thousands of free fonts, I noticed that it offered a way to preview sample text in the fonts it provides. That feature is pretty handy in that it helps you decide which font is the best one for your needs before you download it.
But what about the fonts you already have installed on your computer? Sure, you could type the text in the program you’re in and select each font one by one, but that’s time-consuming. So here are two free font viewers that can help you with that: AMP Font Viewer and Font Thing.
What I like best about both of these tools is that you can preview a lot of fonts in the text of your choosing. But of the two, I consider AMP Font Viewer my favorite because I can simply view more fonts at a glance.
AMP Font Viewer
Font Thing
Each of these tools allow you to view active (installed) and inactive (uninstalled) fonts. And if you happen like one that’s not active, you can easily install it and be ready for action.
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September 9, 2007 at 12:37 am
AMP Font Viewer has a better layout but Font Thing has a cooler name heh. You know, I was actually going to start looking for a font viewer but decided to drop by here first.
September 9, 2007 at 12:41 am
Glad I could save you the time.
September 9, 2007 at 3:48 am
Thanks for posting. I saved this in my Google Reader so I could go back and fetch it when my own computer is actually fixed. But when it is, I’m rushing to this post and getting AMP Font Viewer.
September 9, 2007 at 7:39 am
@Tay: glad to be of help!
September 9, 2007 at 8:58 am
I’m glad I got here first since I was planning to download tons of new fonts to my new computer
September 9, 2007 at 10:21 am
@Malin: Hehe…I think you’ll be pleased.
September 10, 2007 at 4:40 pm
I’m going to have to give one of these a try. I’ve got more fonts installed then you can shake a stick at and I really need to figure out what the heck they all look like and get rid of a few…hundred.
September 10, 2007 at 8:42 pm
@Mike: these will be a big time saver for the work you do.
September 11, 2007 at 7:41 am
Okay I just got AMP installed. I’m happy to report it didn’t explode when loading my ginormous list of fonts. This is going to be very handy. I’ve already spotted dozens I don’t need anymore
September 13, 2007 at 3:31 pm
This will save me loads of time. Thanks You
September 13, 2007 at 7:49 pm
@Genaral_TS: I’m glad to have found something useful for you. Thanks so much for stopping by and hope to see you return soon.