Font Management Software - List of Font Management Software

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
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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