AMP Font Viewer is a free and convenient utility that will help you manage your fonts – preview sample text, install, uninstall any font, and organize them in categories.

Features: Supports TrueType and OpenType fonts * Supports Type1 fonts * Installation of fonts from a folder (one by one or from a list) * Installation of fonts temporarily (until the program is closed) * Delete installed fonts * List all installed fonts with several display options * List of the fonts from a folder with several display options * Several options for organizing fonts in categories and managing them * It can print a list of all or some of the installed fonts with an example of each font * Scratch-pad area for testing the look of any font (installed or from a folder)

I like AMP Font Viewer very much, but when I need to compare unicode fonts with accents, such as polytonic Greek, that this viewer does not support, I use NexusFont and PrintMyFonts.

Don’t miss also the Font Properties free extension by Microsoft, that reveals supported code pages and more when you right click a font in Windows explorer.

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Font Frenzy allows you to strip away all your excess fonts and restores your system to only the fonts that are essential to Windows, giving you the maximum performance speed possible, since boot time increases when you have many fonts installed. Besides this, with Font Frenzy you can:

Save a snapshot of your fonts folder that you can use as a restore point; Re-install fonts quickly and easily from a previous snapshot; View your font list at any point-size using a customizable test phrase;

View a sample of each font in a pop-up window including every upper- and lower-case character and numbers; Add new fonts, delete, or unload and store selected fonts; View all fonts from a specified folder (recursively, if you want to include subfolders).

Note that Font Frenzy is not that reliable. You may save a snap only to find out that you can not use it, since the program crashes upon browsing the fonts included in a snap. Read more on how to use Font Frenzy, or just download it now.

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Horizon5 Font Viewer will let you pick any font installed on your system and check out how it will appear in a range of sizes and styles and against a background of any colour.

Font Viewer won’t display a sample text with several fonts on the same page to let you compare various typefaces.

This seemed to me a problem, but it is not, in fact, it can be an advantage, when you need to avoid distractions and concentrate on a single typeface.

You can see your sample text in one font at a time, in regular, bold, italic, underline or strikeout style, in any color and size you like against a background of any color, but not on an image.

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FastFontSet will let you create, store and use “sets” of fonts (for example, “poster”, “hand-written” etc.), but not automatically, only manually.

Note that you have to hit the “Refresh” button to see any changes you made.

Features: Select font style, size and color to display * sample text, or the alphabet and code character set * load sample from a file * display how fonts will look if printed * change preview scale * select all or any fonts to compare * invert the list of fonts * manually group fonts and create user sets of fonts.

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Font Xplorer will help you choose the “perfect font” for a specific job and easily perform all types of font management.

Browse both installed fonts and archived fonts from disk;

View each font and easily compare all or selected fonts;

Special user text compare mode;

Load, install, unload, uninstall, manage fonts, and more.

Read more on how to use it, or just download and see if it suits your needs.

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* Do you need more? Check PrintMyFonts, NexusFont,  Cfont Pro, FontViewOK, and PrintMyFonts — all free!

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