Attach your font folders, index your fonts and search for fonts. Pick required font by typing its name in the Quick Search box.
Library allows you to view it as a hierarchy of logical folders without rearranging folders and files in the font storage.
Groups are the logical sets of fonts in the Library which can be activated and deactivated as a whole.
Assign keywords, categories, ratings, and captions. Search by tags and by font properties.
FontExpert
Typography is the style, arrangement, and appearance of text. So it’s not just the font you use, but also the size of the text, length of content, and style (like color, italics, etc). This means that we designers should not only understand the ins and outs of typography, but also take advantage of the many typographic tools available.
- FontStruct is a free typography creation kit with a simple editor that makes it easy for you to quickly and easily craft your own fonts. You can save your creations, share them with the Fonstruct community, and even download other members’ shared fonts for use in your print designs. YourFonts (No longer available).
- Main Type is another free font manager software for Windows. In this software, you need not to click menu tab again and again. Its well-organized interface shows all the necessary information on a single display with multiple windows.
- Create any number of fonts free of charge. All rights belong to you, the font creator. FontArk is an innovative browser-based font editor, font creator (BETA), featuring the most versatile real-time multiple glyph editing system. Drawing characters with Fontark font editor is as easy as can be.
Font Manager for OpenType, TrueType, and Adobe PostScript Fonts
FontExpert Font Manager enables you to preview and manage fonts, create Library, font groups, attach font collections, search for fonts in Library and collections, and examine your system for font errors.FontExpert Features:
- View and Preview Fonts
FontExpert 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
FontExpert can search your local disks, remote drives, network folders for fonts, and put all fonts to a special list for your further work. - Search for Duplicates and Corrupted Fonts
FontExpert automatically detects corrupted and incomplete fonts, and allows you to search for and manage duplicate fonts. - Manage Fonts
It is easy to manage any typefaces that are shown in any view of the program. You can sort, filter, preview fonts, copy, move, delete font files, activate or deactivate fonts, add or link fonts to font groups (sets). The program can control fonts located in the Windows Fonts and Psfonts folder (used by Adobe Type Manager), so you do not need to remove fonts from standard folders as some font managers require. - Create Font Library
FontExpert imports fonts and creates font library. You can keep your fonts organized in groups (sets), and activate or deactivate font sets. A group may include either the font file, or a link to a file located in any folder on your computer or network drive. It is easy to add fonts or links by drag-and-dropping from the Windows Explorer to the Groups view. - Print Fonts
FontExpert can print selected fonts. It is easy to print character map, 'water flow' or face name reports for selected fonts, either installed or uninstalled. You can customize and format page headers and footers as desired, for example, by adding the name of your company. - View Advanced Font Properties
The program displays detailed information about the selected font, including type foundry or copyright, TrueType tables, number of kerning pairs in a font, Panose attributes, Windows font metrics and more. - Examine your System for Font Errors
With the help of Detect Font Problems feature, it is easy to find errors in installed fonts and to optimize Windows by resolving typeface conflicts and by removing records about missing fonts. - Export Fonts to HTML Web Album
FontExpert can create HTML Web Album from selected fonts. You can create GIF, JPG, PNG, TIFF, and BMP images of selected font faces. See the sample of HTML page created by FontExpert. - Automatic Activation of Missing Fonts
FontExpert includes Missing Fonts Loader plug-in for Adobe InDesign, and for Adobe Illustrator. - Windows Shell Extensions
The program adds Open, Print and Install Font custom menu commands to Windows Explorer context menu, and adds custom property page that displays detailed attributes of selected .ttf or .otf file. FontExpert adds font management capabilities to the shell so it is easy to activate or print any font in a folder you browse in Windows Explorer.
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Latest News:
New FontExpert 2021 ver. 18.0 Release 2.
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FontExpert 2021 Version 18.0 Release 2
Proxima Software has issued new release of FontExpert 2021 version 18.0 (64-bit and 32-bit).>> - Dec 12, 2020
FontExpert 2021 Version 18.0
Proxima Software has issued new major version FontExpert 2021 version 18.0 (64-bit and 32-bit).>> - Nov 6, 2020
Missing Fonts Loader Plug-In for Adobe InDesign 2021 16.0 x64
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FontExpert 2020 Version 17.0
Proxima Software has issued new major version FontExpert 2020 version 17.0 (64-bit and 32-bit).>> - Nov 5, 2019
Missing Fonts Loader Plug-In for Adobe Illustrator 2020 24.0 (64-bit)
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-->Microsoft's Typography group researches and develops fonts and font technologies, and supports the development of TrueType and OpenType fonts by independent type vendors. Our goal is to make text highly legible, in any language, and on any device.
The purpose of the Microsoft Typography Web site is to explain the benefits and features of OpenType and TrueType, the world's most popular digital font formats, used by millions of computer users every day. We aim to bring you news of exciting developments in digital typography. Developers will find an extensive collection of articles and specifications to help them create TrueType and OpenType fonts, and develop applications that use them.
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History of typography at Microsoft
Fonts and software have always gone hand in hand, and at Microsoft in the early days that was certainly the case. In the beginning there really wasn't a dedicated typography group, but Microsoft was starting to make software that required fonts. One such project was Windows. Windows needed bitmap fonts for the user interface and also to represent printer-resident fonts on screen. Microsoft originally worked with Bitstream, a company founded by former Linotype employees. Microsoft licensed bitmap fonts from Bitstream, but made significant modifications to them. The first Windows user interface font was 'SysFixed' the fixed-pitch bitmap font included with Windows 1. Windows 2 added support for the proportional bitmap font 'System'. Later the bitmap fonts MS Serif and MS Sans Serif were created. It soon became apparent, however, that outline fonts would be the future, and Apple's TrueType outline font format was picked. It was at that point, in the run up to the release of Windows 3.1, and the first typography group 'Systems Type and Text' (STAT) was formed, later the group was renamed the Windows Accessory Group (WAG).
The basic charter of these groups was to acquire outlines, and produce fonts to ship with Windows. Outlines were acquired from Monotype and Bigelow and Holmes, and then the real work began -- implementing support for the format and 'hinting' the fonts so that they could be rendered on screen at small sizes. Not content with producing a set of core fonts for Windows, the team set to work on producing a font-pack that would be sold alongside Windows 3.1. Microsoft hired industry veteran Robert Norton to help source fonts for the packs. The Microsoft Font Pack, and a later Font Pack 2, were incredibly successful, with a large proportion of new Windows users licensing them.
As the company grew, the font group evolved into a service group for the entire company, producing fonts for Office, Windows CE, games and other products. Microsoft has employed in-house type designers in the past, the most prominent being Vincent Connare, who designed Trebuchet and Comic Sans before leaving Microsoft in 1999, but the company has traditionally relied on outside talent for type design. In 1997 Microsoft Typography became part of the Windows International team, and the focus shifted to the international space. A year or so later, half the team were spun off to form the ClearType group, which later emerged as the Advanced Reading Technologies (ART) team. The remaining people continued to produce fonts for Windows and other products.
Currently the core team consists of five program managers, who work with a range of vendors on a variety of font production projects, and who also manage the Microsoft Typography Web site, the OpenType specification, and Microsoft's relationship with the font design community. Alongside the team sits the Font Technology group, a team responsible for complex-script shaping engines and the new font-management services in Windows. The ART team remains active in research, maintaining the font rasterizers and making showcase fonts, including the ClearType Collection fonts and more recently Gabriola.