Font Manager Alternatives

Font Manager is described as 'Is intended to provide a way for average users to easily manage desktop fonts, without having to resort to command line tools or editing configuration files by hand. While designed primarily with the Gnome Desktop Environment in mind, it should work well with other' and is a Font Library tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Font Manager for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best Font Manager alternative is NexusFont, which is free. Other great apps like Font Manager are FontBase, MainType, MyFonts.com and Letters.app.

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

    32 TransType alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  2. Font Picker icon
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    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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
     
  3. Cfont Pro icon
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    Cfont Pro is a viewer to view installed system fonts, printer fonts, and a special mode where you select a directory and view the fonts in that directory.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    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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    fontpreview is a commandline tool that lets you quickly search for fonts that are installed on your machine and preview them. The fuzzy search feature is provided by fzf and the preview is generated with imagemagick and then displayed using nsxiv.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    FontAgent Pro delivers a deluge of font management features to the Pc and Macintosh... and the creative world will never be the same. You can still repair, optimize and organize your fonts, then build font libraries and cascading sets that you can activate, manage, secure...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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    Deepin Font Manager is a tool to install and uninstall font easily, supports batch installation, font information recognition, etc., making it easy to use your favorite fonts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Fonty icon
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    Fonty allows you to scan all the installed fonts on your Mac and lists their character support. Fonty comes with some predefined character sets for some common languages and groups of characters.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. FontDrop icon
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    Use fonts without needing to install them, just drag'n'drop to Photoshop/Illustrator! With an online catalog of fonts, quickly search and install them. Adobe suite integration lets you create new text layers and restore missing fonts.

    21 FontDrop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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