Explore Your Fonts

Topics Computer on February 7th, 2008

Windows seems to have an insatiable appetite for fonts. A new installation starts out with the standard ‘core’ fonts, and there are around 20 of them, but within a very short time you could find your fonts folder has somehow acquired scores and sometimes hundreds of new ones. The Windows Font viewer in Control Panel doesn’t really tell you much, unless you open each file, so here’s a better way to see what you’ve got. It’s called Windows Fonts Explorer and there’s really no need to elaborate. Just type some words into the Viewer window, select the font from the list and choose the size or attribute (bold, italic etc) and you can see straight away what it looks like. Don’t like the look of it? No problem, just make another selection. The program even helps you install new ones, should you feel you don’t have enough of them…