The Font Thing Alternatives

The Font Thing is described as '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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to The Font Thing for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best The Font Thing alternative is NexusFont, which is free. Other great apps like The Font Thing are FontBase, Font Manager, Fonts.com and RightFont.

The Font Thing alternatives are mainly Font Library Tools but may also be Font Hosting Services. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of The Font Thing.

The Font Thing

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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...

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NexusFont
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Free • Proprietary
Font Library Tool
Windows
36 NexusFont alternatives
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.
- - NexusFont is the most popular Windows alternative to The Font Thing.
- - NexusFont is the most popular free alternative to The Font Thing.
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1. PortableNexusFont can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Tagging
Font Previews
Duplicate Font Finder
OpenType Support
FontBase
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Freemium • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Linux
23 FontBase alternatives
FontBase is a blazing fast, beautiful and free font manager for professional designers. All the features of a paid font manager — for free. Works with thousands of fonts on every platform.
- - FontBase is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to The Font Thing.
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Font Activation
Nested Folders
Typography
Font Manager
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Free • Open Source
Linux
GTK+
Xfce
33 Font Manager alternatives
Font Manager 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...
- - Font Manager is the most popular Open Source alternative to The Font Thing.
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Fonts.com
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Paid • Proprietary
Font Hosting Service
Online
63 Fonts.com alternatives
The Fonts.com store offers more than 150,000 desktop and Web font products for you to preview, purchase and download. You can also learn about new typeface releases and discover typographic tips and techniques.
- - Fonts.com is the most popular Web-based alternative to The Font Thing.
- - Fonts.com is the most popular commercial alternative to The Font Thing.
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RightFont
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Paid • Proprietary
Font Library Tool
Mac
iPhone
iPad
28 RightFont alternatives
RightFont is the best font manager app for macOS, helping designers to preview, sync and manage fonts and find the right font quickly. RightFont is the new generation font management software for Mac.
- - RightFont is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to The Font Thing.
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1001fonts
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Font Library Tool
Online
53 1001fonts alternatives
Free fonts.
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Fontmatrix
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
13 Fontmatrix alternatives
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...
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Fontcase - Manage Your Type
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Free • Open Source
Font Library Tool
iPhone
iPad
36 Fontcase - Manage Your Type alternatives
1. Import fonts from your iCloud Drive or Dropbox and add them to your collection of favorites.
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CufonFonts
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Free • Proprietary
Font Library Tool
Online
36 CufonFonts alternatives
At Cufonfonts.com, you can download thousands of fonts for free and use them with WebFont support on your website.
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Font Book
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
38 Font Book alternatives
Font Book is the standard font manager that comes with Mac OS.

The program enables users to: Preview and install font files, avoiding multiple instances of the same font. Review installed fonts using various sample texts and sizes. Group fonts into collections, which can then b.
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Gnome Font Viewer
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Free • Open Source
Linux
21 Gnome Font Viewer alternatives
A font viewer utility for GNOME.
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X-Fonter
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
30 X-Fonter alternatives
X-Fonter is an advanced font viewer and font manager for Windows that supports all font types (Truetype, Opentype, Postscript, Raster and Vector). The clear font previews make selecting the right font an easy task.
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