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Bitmap Font Writer is a free program that let you draw text using a font where each character is drawn in a bitmap file.

If you've drawn your own bitmapped font in for example Photoshop, you are forced to manually Copy & Paste each character in order to combine them into a word. This gets pretty tedious if you're doing buttons for a website, as an example. The purpose of Bitmap Font Writer is to make this procedure smoother. By arranging your font in ASCII order and put markers to define the width of each character you may load the image into Bitmap Font Writer which the combines the characters for you. Then you simply copy everything to the clipboard to get it back into your painting program.

For viewing fonts, seeing how they would appear applied to your name/logo/tagline, and keeping track of which fonts best suit the job is the purpose of Opcion Font Viewer. Opcion allows you to view both installed and uninstalled fonts in different views depending on your needs. Written in Java, Opcion will work on all platforms that the Java Runtime Environment supports (which includes Windows, Mac, Solaris & Linux).

Opcion Font Viewer provdies 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. By clicking on fonts you like in the list view you are adding fonts to a faviourties list that Opcion keeps for you. The faviourites list can then be saved for future reference or used in finding out the file names of fonts you wish to install.

Features

• Viewing of installed/uninstalled fonts.
• List view of installed/uninstalled fonts.
• Adding/removing of favourite fonts.
• Saving of favourite fonts.
• Customizable sample/display text.
• Customizable font size.
• Customizable font properties (bold, italic, etc.) in sample text area.
• Changeable fonts displayed per page in List View.

NexusFont is a font manager for Windows. If you have many fonts and you need to choose fonts you want, this program is for you. You can compare many fonts at once. And there are useful functions to manage font files.

• Supported Font Types: TrueType, TrueType Collection, OpenType, Adobe Type1.
• Install/Uninstall fonts: install fonts into system or uninstall fonts from system.
• Find Duplicate Fonts: find duplicate fonts in folders and delete unnecessary font files.
• Print: print fonts list with user defined sample text
• Export as Image: export font list as an image with user defined sample text
• AntiAliasing: supports antialiasing for designers
• Rename: Rename font files with their font name
• Copy/Move/Delete: manages font files
• Favorite Fonts: manages fonts by favorite groups

The Horizon5 Font Viewer is one of those useful tools that everyone needs.

With this tool you can 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.

This is particularly useful when you are word processing or creating graphics and you do not wish to experiment directly on the document you are producing.

The Font Viewer will work with all flavours of 32bit Windows.

With every version of Windows comes a small set of fonts that are installed by default. Over a period of time, when other software is installed to the PC, you will find the amount of fonts availble will grow and grow. It's not uncommon to have between 200 and 500 fonts on your PC at any one time.

Many of these fonts have their unique stye and can bring a distinctive look to any document, however choosing which font to use can take a long time, as you go through the loop of selecting font after font.

PI-Font was designed to enable you to print a concise report of every font installed on your PC along with a sample alphabet in upper and lower case to give you an indication of what it looks like, or a verbose report which again shows you a sample upper and lower case alphabet along with a body of "lorem ipsum" text to give you a better idea what it would look like in a document.

Printing a full catalog of fonts, 1 font per page can result in hundreds of pages geing printed. Fortunately PI-Font has a unique feature enabling you to print either 1, 2 or 4 pages per printed page, resulting in a catalogue that can take up to a quarter of the amount of paper.

This program is an easy to use but powerful font manager, which allows getting a quick overview of both installed and non installed fonts. It can install and uninstall fonts, and organize them in categories. Some of its features are:

• Supports TrueType and OpenType fonts.
• Supports Type1 fonts.
• Installation of fonts from a folder (one by one or from a list).
• Installation of fonts temporally (until the program is closed).
• Deletion of installed fonts.
• List of 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.
• Scratchpad area for testing the look of any font (installed or from a folder).
• Dual English/Spanish version.

• Arial bold italic.ttf instead of arialbi.ttf
  Brush Script.ttf instead of brushscn.ttf
• FontRenamer is Freeware.

• doesn't require runtimes
• doesn't require installation
• doesn't write to the registry
• doesn't modify files outside of its own directories
• isn't adware

• Windows XP, 2000, 2003, NT, ME, 9x
• 100 KB free disk space