BoxFonts is a visual fonts browser. Browse all fonts on your system, installed or not. Example string with font properties is available for true results.

Install and remove fonts easily. The visual fonts browser display the fonts as they are.

With BoxFonts you can use fonts without having to install them. Just point and click to fonts files. As fonts require additional ram, this prevent to overload your system with temporary stuffs.

This professional font editor allows you to create and edit TrueType and OpenType fonts. It has the powerful drawing tools that typographers and graphic designers require, and an intuitive interface that allows beginners to become productive immediately.

When you create or open a font, FontCreator displays an overview of all available characters. You can simply add missing characters, or select an existing character, and modify its appearance. You can import (scanned) images of your signature or company logo, or make a font from your own handwriting. With FontCreator you can also fix character mappings, font names, kerning pairs, and at all times you can preview your fonts before installing.
In the Professional Edition, font validation features enable you to improve the quality of your fonts. Tools to join contours simplify and speed up the glyph design process. Powerful transformation scripts let you create hundreds of additional characters in seconds. FontCreator's intelligent generation of composites, allows you to automatically generate outlines for more than 2,200 characters.
Whether you're a type designer or graphic artist who needs a font creation powerhouse, or a hobbyist who wants to have fun creating new fonts, FontCreator has the tools you need.

FontExpert 2007 enables you to preview and manage both installed and uninstalled typefaces, plus examine your system for font errors. You can display the list of installed font faces, customizable font samples and advanced font properties.

Key Features:

* View and Preview Fonts
FontExpert 2007 displays the list of all installed typefaces and lets you explore folders and preview uninstalled fonts located on your compact disks or DVDs, local disks, removable disks or network drives. You can preview the font as a paragraph of text or as a detailed character map. It is easy to choose the desired font size, font style or color.

* Assign Keywords, Ratings and Categories to Fonts
Assign keywords, categories, ratings and captions in new Tags view.

* Search in Database
Search for fonts in the database by keywords, ratings and categories in new DB Search view.

* Search for Fonts on Local Discs and Network Drives
The program can search your local disks, CDs or DVDs, network drives for fonts, and put all fonts to a special list for your further work.

FontLab Studio 5 is the company’s next-generation professional font editor for Windows, with a Mac OS version in the works. As a major upgrade of its predecessor FontLab 4.6, FontLab Studio 5 is a comprehensive solution for font foundries, professional type designers, typographers and graphic design studios, allowing them to design type, create, manipulate and modify fonts. FontLab Studio 5 supports all major outline font formats, including Type 1, TrueType, Multiple Master and OpenType.

“The major focus of this release has been put on in-context type design,” said Yuri Yarmola, Vice President R&D at Fontlab Ltd. and the application’s principal engineer. “Our new metrics and kerning editing environment adds a second dimension to the process of letterspacing by allowing the type designer to see the glyphs not only in a horizontal string but on a true two-dimensional page. The new neighbor and shape groups layers add another dimension to the process of glyph design by dynamically previewing related characters right in the glyph editing window.” According to Yarmola, practically every aspect of the application has been revised. “It was the users who shaped the development of the application. More than 90% of the changes in FontLab Studio 5 are based directly on customer feedback,” says Yarmola. The highlights of FontLab Studio 5 also include.

FontExpert 2007 enables you to preview and manage both installed and uninstalled typefaces, plus examine your system for font errors. You can display the list of installed font faces, customizable font samples and advanced font properties.

Key Features:
* View and Preview Fonts
* Search For Fonts
* Manage Fonts
* Organize Fonts
* Print Fonts
* View Advanced Font Properties
* Examine your System for Font Errors
* Windows Shell Extensions
* Supports Adobe Type 1, TrueType, OpenType and raster fonts
* Missing Fonts Loader Plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS2

There are two editions of Font Fitting Room available, Standard and Deluxe. The Standard edition has all of the features to manage and preview your both installed and yet to be installed fonts, whereas the Deluxe version provides a flexible set manager tool to organize your fonts for maximum efficiency. It handles the most popular font types used on PC today, helps you to easily add them to and remove from your system. Supported font types include: True Type font(*.ttf, *.ttc), Open Type font(*.ttf, *.ttc,*.otf),PostScript Type 1 font(*.pfm,*.pfb), and Microsoft Windows font(*.fnt, *.fon).

Features for both Standard and Deluxe edition:

* Layout: The layout is easy to understand, configurable and fast.
Browsing in a familiar Windows Explorer-like interface make it more intuitive.
Displays for font Properties, Character Map and Kerning Pairs can be freely swiched on/off, depending on your needs.
* Preview: You can preview the custom sample text with a font list without actually installing them, with various preview features: size, bold, italic, Underline, foreground and background color, etc.
* Install and Uninstall: You can easily installed a font/fonts from anywhere accessible to system, or uninstall a system font/fonts, with multiple options.
* Print: To print out the preview font list.
* Find: To find text fastly in the preview font list. FFR will not only seach for font name, but also manufacture, copyRight, and all other text fields avaiable in the column candidates.

FontCreator 5.5 | File Size= 6.73 MB.

FontCreator has the powerful font-creation tools that typographers and graphic designers require, and an intuitive interface that even allows beginners to become productive immediately.The editor lets you easily select and modify the entire character set of any TrueType® font and fonts based on OpenType font technology. Features include the ability to convert (scanned) images to outlines, thus enabling you to create fonts with your own signature, logo and handwriting. The advanced validation features make the design process easy and help you avoid common mistakes.
Whether you're a typographer or graphic designer who needs a font creation powerhouse, or a hobbyist who wants to have fun creating new fonts, FontCreator has the tools you need!

The Font Creator software puts font creation within the grasp of the average PC user, would-be typographers and graphic designers.
With this font editor you can create and edit TrueType fonts. You can use the modified fonts in Windows 3.11 and higher. Features include the ability to convert (scanned) bitmaps (.bmp files) to TrueType outlines, thus enabling you to create your own signature, logo and handwriting. The modified fonts can be saved and then used in popular word processing and illustration programs.