Font Xplorer Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Font Xplorer for Windows and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is NexusFont, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Font Xplorer and 16 are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Font Xplorer are MainType, AMP Font Viewer, Fontmatrix and FontViewOK.

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Alternatives list

  1. NexusFont icon
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    Nexus Font 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 several useful functions to manage font files.

    36 NexusFont alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. MainType icon
     22 likes

    MainType makes font management effortless. View, install, and organize your collection with tags, ratings, and advanced OpenType support. The Free Edition handles up to 2,500 fonts—upgrade to unlock its full professional power.

    27 MainType alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Fontmatrix icon
     17 likes

    Fontmatrix is a font manager built with the kind of features and abilities graphic designers, layout pros, and others have felt necessary, but modernized with some new touches. Since version 0.6.0 it contains a panose browser, can find a font from an bitmap image and can extract...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. FontViewOK icon
     8 likes

    Compare 2 fonts (even not installed fonts) in a 2 pane comparison.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. FontExpert icon
     19 likes

    FontExpert Font Manager 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Fontster icon
     6 likes

    Fontster is a font viewer. Despite hundreds of similar utilities, it is probably the easiest tool to browse and preview installed fonts with comfort and flexibility.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Printer's Apprentice is the powerful and easy to use font manager for Windows. Whether you are a graphic artist, a publishing professional or a software enthusiast, Printer's Apprentice will help you manage, organize and print your font collection.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Typograf icon
     4 likes

    Typograf previews, prints and manages opentype, truetype, type1 and printer fonts.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. TransType icon
     1 like

    TransType organizes font families, fixes font problems, and allows you to play and experiment with monochrome and multi-color fonts.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  10. Font Picker icon
     2 likes

    This simple tool shows you all the fonts installed on your computer and helps you choose which one is most suitable for a particular project.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
     
  11. The Font Thing is a freeware program for managing TrueType fonts in Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0. It hasn't been designed for but work well under Windows XP and 7.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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