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Title  Type light
A fully functional, freeware OpenType font editor/designer. Design, edit and convert OpenType TrueType (.ttf) and OpenType PostScript (.otf) fonts.
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Title  CR8tracer
Convert bitmap images into monochrome vector formats.
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Title  BabelMap
BabelMap is a character map application for Windows (95 through Vista) that allows you to browse through the entire Unicode character repertoire or search for a particular character by name or codepoint. Characters can then be copied to the clipboard for use in any Unicode-aware application. It also provides many useful features and special utilities...
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Title  NexusFont Size  1.13 MB Win  2000/XP/2003/Vista
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.
Main features:
- View TrueT ype Fonts: view installed fonts, fonts in folders (not installed).
- 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.

Title  Special Keys Size  2.43 MB Win  all
Special Keys - a utility to insert any character into any Windows® program. You can define the buttons to insert any character you like, for typing in French, German or Spanish using a non-specific keyboard or just for those everyday things like ©, TM and ±. No more keystrokes to remember or define, just click!

Title  FontRenamer Size  56 kB Win  all
FontRenamer is a simple tool, that renames truetype font files (.ttf) to the real name of the typefaces. Simply select a folder of font files and click the Rename button. The program will display a list of the original file name and the renamed name and also offer an option to undo the operation.
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Title  Lipikar Size  2.84 MB Win  98/NT/ME/2000/XP/2003
Lipikar is a unique but simple desktop authoring tool for Windows ANSI/ASCII fonts. It is independent of languages or keyboards and can be used to create passages of text in any language without caring about the keystrokes associated with a particular font. The Setup program now contains some Indian language fonts to be selectively installed by the user. As such, its size has been marginally increased by about 800 KB. Apart from some debugging, all other previous features of Lipikar have been left intact.

Title  Font test Size  381 kB Win  all
Font test is a very simple program. It helps to decide what font(s) to use. It is only intended to show given text or range of characters using given fonts. You may choose all installed or just some selected fonts to use. After text is shown it can be copy-pasted into eg. MS Word or other rich text application.

Title  Font Install & Backup Size  38 kB Win  all
Font Install & Backup is a usefull program to designers and people that need to format their computer.. this program will backup all their fonts and after mass install them all with 3 clicks!

Title  Bitmap Font Writer Size  337 kB Win  all
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.

Title  dp4 Font Viewer Size  62 kB Win  all
dp4 Font Viewer for Windows - a fast, small and installation free utility for showing all TTF fonts of a given folder, without installation. High quality display of all fonts by use of our own truetype render engine. Filtering by truetype parameters possible - font spacing type, family, weight and width classes. Display of Unicodes and key codes. Basic font management functions and print function for single fonts and the complete font list.

Title  Cfont Pro Size  4.36 MB Win  NT/2000/XP/2003
Premium Font Manager. Features:
- Supports all common font types
- View your fonts in many useful ways
- Manage your font collections
- Highly customizable interface
- Feature rich font manager...

Title  AMP Font Viewer Size  427 kB Win  2000/XP
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 (Windows 2000/XP required for PostScript OpenType fonts)
- Supports Type1 fonts (Windows 2000/XP required)
- 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.
(Free for non-commercial use.)

Title  AllChars Size  361 kB Win  all
AllChars provides a quick, easy-to-remember way of creating accents like é Ü ç î æ and special characters like ƒ ² ‰ © £ ± ß ° 1/2 ¿ « » ™ „ in most Windows programs. AllChars also supports macros. You can type short names, resulting in AllChars sending long text bits to your application. Support for macros include secure macros for logins, insert date/time strings and more.

Title  Character Map Pro Size  232 kB Win  all
Character Map Pro 1.81 (last freeware version) is a character map program that allows you to view all characters of a selected font from 0 to 255. You can view individual characters, or font names on a separate window of any size , or view them on the clipboard. It allows you to add bold and italic style for any font, or find any font quickly by typing first letters of the font name in the font search box.
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Title  Extended Character Map Size  190 kB Win  all
Extended Character Map 1.41 (last freeware version) is like the Windows Character Map utility but uses much bigger, easier-to-see characters. The utility is especially useful for viewing the pictures in a symbol or Dingbat font. Characters can be seen up to 100pt size. No more squinting at Webding characters trying to figure out "is that a race car or a textile factory?". The keystroke name is displayed in the program's status bar. The Decimal/Hex/Oct/Binary values are also displayed. Additionally, you can view the fonts with one or more attributes selected (Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikeout). Using ExtendedCharacterMap, any character or series of characters can be quickly copied to the clipboard.
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Title  FontViewer Size  416 kB Win  all
Preview the fonts you just downloaded/got on CD, without spending too much precious time! With FontViewer you can say goodbye to long hours spent evaluating your brand new collection of fonts! Preview the font files contained in a directory and install only the ones you really like, without having to manually open each .ttf file!


Title  Free Font Renamer Size  579 kB Win  all
Batch Font Renamer. Give each font a name that speaks for itself with one click! Got a font collection? Got a collection, but no order in it? Start by giving font files the names corresponding to the full font names. For example, you can rename MLON_I.TTF to Milion Italic.ttf. This name speaks for itself, it is simple and clear.

Title  TrueType Font Editor Size  69 kB Win  all
Editor for creating and editing TrueType fonts which you can implement in your own software. At the programming Plaza you can find more information about how to implement TTF's in your programs.
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Title  X-Fonter Size  830 kB Win  98/NT4/Me/2000/XP
X-Fonter 4.6 (last freeware version) is a user friendly Font Viewer, Font Manager and 3D Graphic creator. It also allows you to make nice 3D Graphics that you can use for your webpages, emails and much more...
Features:
- Browse through and preview any installed fonts
- Browse through and preview any not-installed fonts
- Install or uninstall any TrueType Fonts
- Search for fonts on any drive/directory
- Network support included
- Font Filtering by Font Family, Codepages and Font Style
- Adjustable Colors, Styles and Sizes
- View Fonts in 3D mode
- Character map (ASCII and Unicode)
- Basic Image editor built in (with cropping)
- JPG output supported for 3D graphics
- and more...
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Title  Free&Easy Font Viewer Size  657 kB Win  all
Have you got lots of fonts to choose from? Do you get annoyed every time you pick a font for a fancy birthday card or a web page logo because all the software you have is only capable of showing one font at a time? Help is at hand. Free&Easy Font Viewer gives you the opportunity to view all your installed fonts simultaneously. This tool definitely lives up to its name: it is both free and easy. Free&Easy Font Viewer shows you all the installed fonts (that is, those that are in the Fonts folder in your Control Panel) in one window. You can scale the fonts up and down and check out how they look in different font styles (bold, italic, underline, strike through).

Title  FontFrenzy Size  423 kB Win  XP
FontFrenzy tames the frenzy of fonts that can clutter and slow down Windows XP. The DeFrenzy function removes and stores all fonts except those that were present when Windows was first installed. In short, it cleans up your font folder so that Windows boots quicker and runs smoother. (After 40 days of operation you will be required to register Font Frenzy - free of charge).
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Title  Protaxis BestFonts Size  154 kB Win  95/98/NT4/ME/2000/XP/2003
Protaxis BestFonts 1.1 (last freeware version) is an small freeware utility that help you to preview installed fonts, organize fonts in font groups, send font files on e-mail, pack fonts in zip archive.
This utility is very useful if you wish to choose which font apply for text. Suppose you want to make a web banner, and wrote some advertising information on it. Of course, you want to select a good font for this text, so with Protaxis BestFonts you can select more than one font at once, make a font group for best fonts you found, and select font from this group. This is much more faster then in any other software.
Unique feature of this software is font actions. You just select fonts from installed fonts list, and then you can mail or save font files with just one click. You don't need to manually search for font files. With built-in zip archive support, you can zip font files before this actions. Also, you always see total size of font files you select.
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Title  Opcion Font Viewer Size  700 kB Win  95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP
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 individualy or many at a time.

Title  My CharMap Size  329 kB Win  95/98/ME/NT4/XP/2000
CharMap utility with re-sizeable character display and zoom viewer. This utility enhances the default CharMap program that ships with Microsoft Windows. Features re-sizeable window and zoom panel to make viewing characters easier on the eyes.

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