3D Effects

3D Heading Maker
FREE online application that allows you to make 3D text-based graphics dynamically - and then save them as well.

Xara 3D
Xara3D is a 'slimware' program designed to produce high quality 3D headings, banners and animations. It offers very high performance, high quality results, and is the simplest, quickest 3D program you will ever use.

See 3D FX for mini tutorials and free Xara 3D source files.

See 2D Objects, Original Fonts, Textures n Tiles, Holiday Fonts for more free Xara 3D source files.

Effect 3D Studio
Creates professional 3D animated graphics.

Ulead Cool 3D
Creates 3D images as still graphics, animations, video or Flash files.

FontTwister
FontTwister lets you create impressive text effects for web pages, illustration, multimedia projects and presentations in seconds.

MFE
Create font effects for your web site, design great logos and create animation sequences from any effect.

Cataloguers

Advanced Font Catalog
Advanced Font Catalog is an easy to use tool with an explorer-like interface which allows you to catalog the font files on your drives: hard drives (including network drives), CD-ROMs, optical disks, ZIP disks, Jazz disks and other media.

FontDings
Print & view every character of any installed or uninstalled font; Compile a FontDings portfolio; Reference all access keys.

Win32 Font Lister
Win32 Font Lister is a fully-featured font listing and reporting tool. It will generate multi-line samples of all your fonts - whether installed or uninstalled. An easy-to-use wizard mode gets your reports out fast, and a more sophisticated advanced mode gives you complete control over all aspects of the final report.

Microsoft's Font Tools

Font Properties Editor
"Add links, descriptions and license information to the TrueType and OpenType™ fonts you create."

Font Properties Extension
"Once installed details of a particular font's copyright, embedding permissions, hinting, multi-language support, and other features are just a right-click away."

Font Smoother
"With this small utility you can activate font smoothing (also known as grayscaling or antialiasing)."

Microsoft Typography Homepage

Printers

FontFile
View and Print a sorted list of your font names and filenames. Allows a compact printed list of all your TTF, ATM and Screen fonts to be kept for reference.

Font-O-Matic
An excellent utility for viewing and printing your font collection. You can view by Font Family or Technology as well as view fonts in a folder, ie, fonts not installed.

Font Page
With FontPage you can examine and compare all fonts on your system, view them with all type specifications available (bold, italic, underline as well as in 3D) and print a fontpage of any installed font on your computer.

Print Fonts (PFONT)
View and Print a sorted list of your fonts in a range of sizes and with MULTIPLE fonts to a page. Individual fonts can be selected for printing using customised text of up to three lines.

Other

AL Font Installer
This program provides a more convenient way of installing new fonts plus you can view fonts before they are installed including character sets.

EuroCheck
Check your fonts and operating system for supporting the Euro sign.

FontRenamer
Renames truetype font files (*.ttf) to the real name of the typefaces.

Fonts on CD
Free utility for browsing non installed fonts directly from CD.

Photofont Start
Photofont Start is a free plugin that allows the use of photofonts in Adobe Photoshop and compatible applications for Mac OS and Windows. Photofont™ is an exciting new technology that allows you to create and use full-color bitmap type with transparency.

ParaNoise
ParaNoise is a software tool for making special graphic effects based upon PostScript fonts. Special effects appear as random letter contour distortions. There are 12 types of effects available: Beofont, Dance, Zoom, Pen, Rotate, Swing, Pencil, Marker, Winter, Wind, Storm and Distort. You choose the effect and set it's intensity with a slider or type in the value in a small window nearby. ParaNoise creates "static" and "dynamic" font forms. Static form is present on screen and non-PostScript devices. Once changed letters have constant contours. On PostScript devices you'll have the dynamic form, and all characters will be changed every time they appear. You'll find no two similar A-letters.