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home > fonts > FONT UTILITIES SOFTWARE : FONT UTILITY SHAREWARE : FREE FONT

FONT UTILITIES & FREE FONT MANAGER SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS OF SHAREWARE (Organizers & Viewers)

Adobe Type Manager - From adding fonts and creating custom sets to getting crisp, clean output from any printer, ATM Deluxe is packed with powerful features that make font management fast and easy and that leave you free to concentrate on your content. (MAC and PC)

Adobe Type Reunion - OpenType font support and Unified support for Mac OS 8.1 through 9.0.

Advanced Font Viewer - Comfortable and free way to preview the fonts installed on your system.

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AL Font Installer - This program is addition to the control panel Windows Fonts. It provides more convenient way for installing a new fonts on your computer.

Apple Font Manager - The Font Manager Update extension fixes numerous problems related to the Mac OS 8.6 Font Manager. Under certain circumstances, the Font Manager in Mac OS 8.6 may create a corrupt resource inside some applications or fonts.

Bitstream - Bitstream's btX2 is a ground-breaking font subsystem that brings sophisticated font capabilities to Linux and Unix.

BitFonter - BitFonter is FontLab's Professional tool for bitmap font development

D-Type - Technology for super smooth graphics.

e-Signature - Access your signatures and logos directly from your font menu...

Eurocheck - EuroCheck checks your fonts, printer, keyboard and operating system for euro symbol support.

Extensis Suitcase - The world’s #1 font manager, Suitcase lets you and your workgroup share, organize, preview, and automatically activate your fonts. Suitcase does all the hard work. You just keep designing.

FantaMirror - $30 / Windows - converts pictures into texts of any fonts and any characters

FontAgent - the first product specifically created to help you organize, manage & repair your fonts and gives you an optimized font library you can depend on plus a Mac system free of font-related crashes & lock-ups. (MAC)

FontAgentPro - Insider FontAgent Pro is the only font manager that you’ll ever need for Mac OS X, combining powerful, yet simple font management with its unrivaled, award-winning integrity checking that solves font problems fast.

FontBook - The ultimate font utility for every MacOS user who wants a complete overview about all his fonts. (MAC)

FontBuddy - FontBuddy 2 is a font viewer. It shows and prints all the characters of any installed font.

Font Checker - The FIRST Font inspection utility for Mac OS X that understands unicode.

Font Creator Program - With this application you can create and edit TrueType font files.

Font Effects - (Free to Try, $12 to Buy) - Text creation tool that produces graphics for use in presentations and on the Web. You can deform the text and use textures. Use shadow and edge effects to make the text look fantastic! You can also add a border and a background texture. The result can be printed or saved.

Font Expert - Simply scan your sample in, allocate the correct names to a couple of characters and let FontExpert do the searching. In a few seconds, the font name and the font manufacturer are displayed. (PC)

Font Explorer - Font Explorer makes it easier and faster to find specific characters in a font. It shows all the characters of your fonts in an interactive grid. Its zoom feature lets you see all the details of the glyphs.

Font Folder Fixer 2 (Win 95/98/ME/NT ) - If your Fonts folder has become corrupt and the "Install New Font" option is not available, Font Folder Fixer will repair it. Font Folder Fixer restores the following: Install New Font option, Open and Print options, Correct names of fonts, Fixes problems with fonts not showing up

Font Fusion - Font Fusion is Bitstream's latest, most advanced font rasterizing engine, a font subsystem that renders high-quality characters in any format, at any resolution, on any device.

Font Image Library(MAC) - ($10) This program helps you keep track of all your fonts. It identifies and loads all of the fonts installed in the system and shows exactly what each font looks like. It also prints out great font sample lists.

Font Lab - Fontlab sells software for editing, converting, designing, and manipulating digital typefaces and font families.

FontLister - Never have trouble finding a font for a special task again. You'll be able to browse all of your fonts easily, even fonts that haven't yet been installed. (PC)

Font Map - FontMap may be used to view and print both installed and external fonts; it can display a table, individual characters, a keyboard view, font description, or whatever text you wish to enter. Individual characters can be displayed in a "full-screen" view and custom table parameters can be set to "zoom" in on a selected portion of a font.

Font Navigator - Font Navigator gives you a quick and easy way to find fonts, install those fonts, organize fonts into manageable groups, and view and print font samples. (PC)

Font Properties Extension - If you right click on a font file in Windows its basic properties are displayed. This extension adds several new property tabs to this properties dialog box. These include information relating to font origination and copyright, the type sizes to which hinting and smoothing are applied, and the code pages supported by extended character sets.

Font Reserve - The program makes it eminently easier to cope with large numbers of fonts... Font Reserve's strong organizational concepts are the future of font-management programs.

Font Runner - Font Runner is a Windows Application designed to help you manage, preview, install and use TrueType fonts.

FontSelector - is a simple freeware font viewer for the 32-bit Windows Family (Windows 95, 98, NT4 and NT5). It gives you a quick and easy way to browse and print all your installed fonts.

FontShow 2000 - FontShow 2000 is a small program useful for viewing and printing the TrueType fonts installed on your system. Options are included to display user-specified sample text in place of the normal font name and alphanumeric character set. The size and face of the currently selected font can be quickly changed and the result displayed automatically. A printed hardcopy of the currently selected font can also be produced.

Fonts Manager - Fonts Manager™ is similar to the Mac OS Extensions Manager, but it manages Fonts instead. It allows the enabling and disabling of font suitcases and printer fonts in 'Sets', so you shrink those long Font menus. It allows you to view, print, and save font samples. Open and save 'Sets' files for limitless set configuration and easy upgrade from previous versions.

Font Tool - FontTool converts the entire character set of a Windows font to a 16 x 16 character map and writes out an uncompressed Windows BMP. Ideal for using proportional fonts in games and speed critical apps.

Font Utilities - Download Advanced Font Catalog, Fast Font Set

Font Viewer - Font Viewer is a font utility to list, compare, try and print all installed fonts on your system

Fontz - A versatile font utility that allows you to browse your existing fonts, see what they look like at different sizes, styles and colors, and even group them in like categories.

Font Twister - $40 - Create impressive text effects for web pages, multimedia projects and presentations.

Font Wrangler - Windows' facility for supporting TrueType fonts isn't really matched by its facilities for managing them.

Free & Clear Demo - An Experiment in Sub-Pixel Font Rendering

Free Type Project - A free, quality and portable font engine/driver for TrueType fonts.

GetChar - This FKEY opens a window that shows all characters available in the current font (see picture). Select any character to insert it in the active document. I've got the idea to create this FKEY from the popular PopChar control panel. PopChar is now a commercial utility, distributed by UNI SOFTWARE PLUS.

IdentiFont - The unique font identifier that enables you to identify a font from a sample by answering a series of simple questions. It is ideal if you want to match an existing typeface, or identify a typeface you have seen in a publication.

Insider Software - The only Mac OS X font manager you will ever need.

LogoTypeMaker - LogotypeMaker displays a string of text using your currently installed fonts--one font face per line--with a single click. It also sorts the fonts lists after user-defined criteria

M4 Phader - Mike's Phader is a small but useful application for use mainly with AOL or AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), but can also be used in the design of web pages. It changes the plain text you type into rich colorful text using HTML tags, which is the way that AOL and AIM send color IMs. By taking advantage of their system of coloring, you can send text that looks like this in your instant messages to your friends, family, and co-workers.

Macromedia Fontographer - Create royalty-free fonts for print, multimedia, and the Internet.

Master Juggler Pro - Gives you access to your entire font library and lets you store your fonts anywhere. Restore speed and convenience with MasterJuggler! (MAC)

MyTools - Shareware package that views fonts (installed or not), prints font catalogs, manages fonts, and installs and uninstalls fonts quickly.

Noah - The font surgeon. A native Type 1 font editor. It can be used to open, change and save PostScript Type 1 (PFB) fonts and their metric (PFM) files. [Win 3.1/9x/NT]

PfaEdit - A postscript font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed and bitmap (bdf) fonts, or edit existing ones. Also lets you convert one format to another.

Pixel Software - Create and modify a pixel font library, Convert ttf (true type font) to pixel font, Convert bitmap to pixel font, Convert pixel font to bitmap, and Save pixel font library to a C source file.

Printers Apprentice 7.0 - Printer's Apprentice has tools for printing specimen pages and font lists for both installed fonts and uninstalled fonts on CD-ROMs and other media. You can look at every character of each font, see how fonts look in a paragraph, find symbol characters on the keyboard, and more! (PC)

Smooth Type - Uses a different anti-aliasing algorithm than Apple uses for their "Smooth all fonts on screen" option in the Appearance control panel, and many people think SmoothType gives better results. (MAC)

SoftDesign - Morrison SoftDesign is a professional software development company specializing in font software for Apple Macintosh computers and the publishing industry.

Sub Pixel - Font rendering technology

Suitcase (Top Pick, $80 - $100 to Buy, Windows and Mac) - Suitcase lets you and your workgroup share, organize, preview, and automatically activate your fonts. Suitcase does all the hard work. You just keep designing.

Suitcase Server (Top Pick, $900, Windows and Mac) - organizes and distributes Macintosh and Windows fonts among organizations to ensure co-workers either next door or across the country are using the exact same fonts. No more master font disks!

Sun Rav - SunRav Fonter is designed for viewing fonts, installed on your PC. You simply enter a phrase and the program shows this phrase in different fonts. Thus you can clearly see your phrase written in different fonts.

Text Sampler - Use Text Sampler to print a catalog of all your fonts.

TransType - Used to convert fonts easily from pc to mac or vice versa. (MAC and PC)

TrueType - Instead of relying on the default fonts that users have in their browsers, web authors can now create pages using the fonts they have on their systems with the assurance that those pages will display in a browser with their font formatting intact.

TTF2PT1 - True Type Font to Postscript Type 1 Converter

Typeset - View installed fonts to find the best for your project.

Type Solutions - The source for the best font engine and font rasterizer technology!

TypeTamer - TypeTamer is the next generation of font management tools from Impossible Software designed to improve the productivity of all Macintosh users.

Typograf is a Fontmanager (preview, print, manage truetype and type 1
fonts) with 5-ZDNet-stars : ZDNet wrote about Typograf: "Typograf is one of the best font utilities we've seen, commercial or shareware."

Ubique Cataloger - Solve your TrueType Font Problem. Have you ever wondered why you have to install your TrueType Fonts before you view them? Look no further! Viewing and Printing TTF catalogues has never been easier! Wherever your TTF's are located, on hard disk, floppy or CD-Rom, UBIQUE makes them visible to you.

Universal Typeface Converter - Page Technology Marketing, Inc. (PageTech) specializes in HP PCL® page description language, Intellifont®, TrueType™ and PostScript® typeface conversion utilities and related technology.

Windows 95 Font Smoother - Now you can make full use of the benefits of this technology, making text easier to read and more pleasant to look at, without having to purchase the Plus! Pack. (PC)

Windows Font Software Reviews - A select list of recommended Microsoft Windows-based software for the management, editing, optimization, troubleshooting, display or creation of computer typefaces. There are, of course, other such utilities available, often as shareware, but these are some of our current and past favorites, listed by company.

X-Fonter - This very powerful but easy-to-use tool lets you view and manage all your fonts. It supports TrueType, OpenType, Postscript Type 1, Raster and Vector fonts. You can test any of those fonts in all color combinations, all styles, all sizes and even a 3D view and a character map with all ASCII and Unicode characters codes are included. There's a built-in image editor to create special effects (3D, Gradient, Outline) for your homepages or emails. What started out as a simple fontviewer has become a full-blown font toolkit.

X Font Manager - X Font Manager is a simple font manager for Mac OS X.

Logo Design Creation Process from Start to Finish by Expert Graphic Designer - Mark Misenheimer
This article was written by the very talented, Mark Misenheimer of Misenheimer Creative, Inc. Mark is an expert freelance graphic designer who has been in the design business for years. He has documented the design of a logo from start to finish in order to help other graphic designers. I know that you will learn something from this tremendous logo design article.

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Getting a Handle on the Creative Process for Graphic Designers
The Graphic Design industry is very competitive, and trust me, it can certainly get stressful and frustrating at times. However, it doesn?t always have to be that way. Here, I have broken down my design process. This is how I create my design layouts from start to finish. Basically, with some focus, structure, and a little bit of talent, creating rewarding and professional design work can be produced more efficiently and with less stress.

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Jul 5

20 Ways to Avoid Graphic Designer?s Block
As a designer everyone has experienced a point where they just can no longer think of anything worth while. It?s in these situations when you have to reevaluate your perception of what works and what doesn?t. Use the following 20 tips to avoid and get through a tough designer's block.

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Jun 18

Free Online Font Tools - Mega List of Web Based Font, Text, & Type Tools
Graphic Design and Typography are deeply connected. For that reason, I figure that most of you are going to love these free online font and type tools. Most, if not all, of these are very useful and I recommend that you use them when you have a chance. Below you will find the huge list of free browser-based font and type tools.

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Jun 13

List of Graphic Design Podcasts on Topics Graphic Design, Web Design, Typography and More
I have found a load of design related podcasts that I am sure will peak your interests. Just think of it as radio shows geared towards you and your love of design. You will even find Podcasts on Photoshop, Illustrator, Typography, Freelancing, as well as Web Design and Graphic Design.

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Jun 7

List of Vector Conversion Software - 30+ Tools to Turn Photos into Line Art and Illustrations
I love Vector Magic, a free online vectorization tool. It is a really cool browser-based tool that can be used to turn a photograph into an illustration. It doesn't always succeed in getting that look that you might be looking for, but it does a pretty good job. I usually just use it to play around with photos to see what Vector Magic can do with it, but it also can be very useful if you want to convert a photo into an illustration. I started to wonder how many other vectorization tools and software packages there were out there and I was surprised to find out that there are a ton o them. Basically, most of these tools turn Raster / Bitmap / Photo Images into Line Art / Illustrations / Vector Art.

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May 28

Free Photoshop Shapes Downloads - Mega List of Free Custom Vector Shapes for Adobe Photoshop - Part I
I am in love with vector shapes right now. I think they are so handy to have around when you are building a site. The way that you can stretch vectors without creating jaggy edges, makes them incredibly useful. Most of the time I just land up breaking them apart to use a curve that I like. I also love using them for as badges or buttons on web sites. I have collected a huge selection of free custom Photoshop shapes. If you download every single one of these, there are probably close to 15,000 free Adobe Photoshop shapes. There are more to come in Part II. Enjoy.

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May 27

A New and More Accurate Search Engine for Finding Free Clipart
As graphic designers, we are always on the hunt for quality free clipart images to use in our designs. The problem is that often searching for clipart often brings back very inaccurate search results. Well, thanks to one of my friends, I have found a new site called Find Free Clipart which will make my life much easier the next time I search for clipart online.

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May 20

Become a Graphic Designer - Design Careers & Design Education Advice from Professional Designer
Whether you?re right out of high school, a Mom looking for a career she can do from home, recently out of the Military or simply someone who feels they have a knack for design and is ready for a career change, consider that you have a few options on how to gain the skills you will need to pursue your dream job. But first, ask yourself some questions

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May 16

Online Drawing Tools & Free Online Painting & Sketching Tools
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