List of Font Management Software
Most commercial font management programs offer a 30-day free trial. You can take advantage of this to try out different programs until you find the one that suits your needs. Just be sure to uninstall or at least deactivate one program before installing the next.
Note: Surprisingly, information on supported fonts is not readily available from many manufacturers. However, at a minimum most of the major commercial programs support OpenType and TrueType fonts.
Name | Operating system | License | Author | Publisher | Supported fonts | Notes |
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Adobe Type Manager Light (ATM Light) | Mac OS 8.6 through 9.1, Mac OS X Classic; Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0 with Service Pack 4 | Free | Adobe Systems | ATM Deluxe was discontinued in the mid-2000s | ||
Advanced Font Viewer | Windows | Commercial | Styopkin Software | |||
AMP Font Viewer | Windows | Free | AMPsoft | OpenType, PostScript Type 1, TrueType | ||
BDF Font Viewer | Windows | Freeware | Komeil Bahmanpour | Chortkeh | ||
California Fonts | Windows | Free | The Scone Company, LLC | OpenType, Postscript Type 1, TrueType | ||
Cfont Pro | Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7 | Free | Veign LLC | Bitmap, OpenType, Postscript Type 1, TrueType | ||
DiskFonts | Mac OS X (10.5+), Windows (XP, Vista, 7) | Commercial | Anastasiy | Bitmap, OpenType, Postscript Type 1, TrueType | Font manager panel for Adobe Creative Suite (CS3, CS4, CS5), supports FontExpert groups | |
FontAgent Pro | Mac, Windows | Commercial | Insider Software | OpenType, PostScript Type 1, TrueType | Initially a Mac-only product | |
Font Card | Mac OS 10.4 (but not Mac OS X 10.6 Leopard) | Commercial | Unsanity | OpenType, PostScript, TrueType | Modifies the Font menu and the font panel in Carbon and Cocoa applications. Supports FontAgent Pro, FontExplorer X, and Suitcase Fusion font sets. | |
FontCase | Mac OS X | Commercial | Bohemian Coding | |||
FontExpert | Windows | Commercial | Proxima Software | OpenType, TrueType, TrueType Collections, PostScript Type 1, Bitmap and vector (*.fon) | With plug-ins for Adobe Creative Suite products (Missing Fonts Loader plug-in, Font Info plug-in, etc.) | |
Font Explorer X Pro | Mac, Windows | Commercial | Linotype/Monotype | |||
Font Fitting Room Deluxe | Windows | Commercial | Qweas | Microsoft Windows (*.fnt, *.fon), OpenType (*.ttf, *.ttc, *.otf), PostScript Type 1 (*.pfm, *.pfb), TrueType (*.ttf, *.ttc) | ||
Font Frenzy | Windows | Free | Timothy Williams (computer programmer) | SDSoftware | ||
Font Manager | Windows | Commercial | Styopkin Software | |||
Font-Manager | Linux | GNU GPL Version 3 | JerryCasiano | font-manager project | Last update: 08.2010. Depends on GTK 2.x | |
Fontmatrix | Linux, Mac, Windows | Free under the GNU General Public License | Pierre Marchand | Fontmatrix.be | OpenType, TrueType | |
Font Pilot | Mac OS 10.4+ | Commercial | Qweas | |||
Font Safari | Mac OS 9+ | Commercial | Dreystone Software | Last updated in 2006 | ||
Font Wrangler | Windows XP, Vista, 7 | Shareware or bookware | Alchemy Mindworks | TrueType | ||
Font Xplorer | Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 4, 2000, XP | Free | Ahto Tanner | Moon Software | ||
Font Xplorer | Windows | Commercial | Qweas | TrueType (*.ttf, *.ttc) | ||
Free & Easy Font Viewer | Windows XP, 2000, Vista | Free | Styopkin Software | |||
MainType | Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 | Commercial | High-Logic | OpenType, PostScript Type 1, raster, TrueType, vector | ||
MasterJuggler | Mac OS X | Commercial | AlSoft | Outline, OpenType, PostScript, printer, screen, TrueType | ||
NexusFont | Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 | Free | Noh JungHoon | Xiles | OpenType, TrueType, Type 1 | Last update: 09.2010. Provides: Libraries and Sets, Tags, Find of duplicates. |
Opcion Font Viewer | Linux, Mac, Windows; requires Java 1.4.0+ | Free (and open source) | P. Chiu | Opcion | ||
Printer's Apprentice | Windows 7, Vista and XP | Commercial | Bryan T. Kinkel | Lose Your Mind Development | OpenType, PostScript, TrueType | Last update, 5/3/2012 |
Suitcase Fusion | Mac OS X, Windows | Commercial | Extensis | Was merged with Font Reserve | ||
The Font Thing | Windows 95, 98, and NT 4.0 | Free | Sue Fisher | Sue Fisher | TrueType | A legacy font management program; has not been updated since 1999, though apparently is still popular among some users |
Typograf | Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7 | Commercial | Alex Neuber | Neuber Software GmbH | Truetype, OpenType, PostScript Type 1, printer, raster, vector | |
X-Fonter | Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7 | Commercial | Blacksun Software | Truetype, OpenType, PostScript Type 1, raster, vector |
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