Freebie Friday – Manage Your Fonts

Posted on March 20, 2009 
Filed Under Desktop Publishing, Fonts, Freebie Friday, Freebies, Graphic Design, Our Favorite Products, Resources, Tips & Tricks

If you are a fontaholic like I am, or just need a pretty good variety of fonts because you work in graphic and print design, then chances are you’ve been frustrated trying to find just the right font for a project. Choosing, comparing, and analyzing fonts is serious business. You could just keep selecting a different font in your document and see how it looks, only to do that about 50 more times, OR you can manage your fonts and save yourself a lot of headaches.

Font management you ask? Yes, of course! There is a really good – and free – font manager out there called AMP Font Viewer. Besides allowing you to get a quick overview of both installed and non-installed fonts, this program can also install and uninstall fonts on the fly as well as organize them into categories. I can feel your excitement already!

fonts1So why would you want a font manager you ask? Well for one thing, the more fonts you install on your computer, the better the chance of your computer programs slowing down, errors happening, or possibly even crashing. They use up a considerable amount of resources on your system that reduces efficiency and productivity. With AMP Font Viewer, because you can get an overview of non-installed fonts, you can keep all your extra, non essential, everyday fonts in a separate folder and install them only when needed, thus keeping your computer happy. And we all know that a happy computer makes a happy user!

AMP Font Viewer supports TrueType, OpenType and Type1 fonts, so you get the maximum use out this great little manager. Want to test the look of any font with your own text? No problem. Want to print a list of all or just some of your installed fonts with sample text for each one? Yep, you can do that, too.

It’s so easy to use you might even have a little fun while choosing the perfect font for your next project. So stop letting your font fetish take on a life of its own and start managing your fonts with ease.

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