Fonts & Things

These pages feature various Font Tools and Resources we have discovered and think you will find useful.

Font and Character Viewers
Programs to help you view fonts or selected characters when Character Map isn't enough.
Font Conversion
Mac to PC & PC to Mac, truetype to pixelfonts, graphics into fonts and more.
Font Creation
Software, information and links to tutorials to help you make your own fonts.
Font Identifiers
Resources and programs to help you identify a font.
Font Management
Commercial, shareware and freeware programs to help you manage all these fonts.
Font Sites
Original designers offering freeware and shareware fonts, commercial fonts and archives.
Info & Resources
Font information including history, news, Q&As, interviews, groups and more.
Multiple Languages
Programs and resources to help with the languages of the world including East Asian Languages.
Other Font Tools
3D Effects, Cataloguers, Printers & more.

FontLab makes the world's best font-editing tools and utilities including:
FontLab Studio - The best you can buy - a professional's font editor.
Fontographer - for both beginners and professionals.
FogLamp - Fontographer source file converter.
TypeTool - Basic font editor - Good for quick, small jobs.
TransType - Universal font converter for Mac and Windows.
ScanFont - Turns bitmap images into font glyphs. Great for handwriting fonts, logos, clipart.
BitFonter - The first full-fledged bitmap font editor.
FONmaker - The bitmap font creator - generates bitmap fonts from outlines.
FontFlasher - converts almost any format font into a "pixel" TrueType font.
SigMaker - Put your signature into a truetype font.
AsiaFont Studio - the premier two-byte (Unicode/CJKV) font editor.
CompoCompiler - creates composite fonts automatically.
Photofont Start - free plugin to use photofonts in Photoshop and other compatible applications.
Trial & demo versions available for PC & Mac

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Xara ScreenMaker 3D
Create 3D screensavers in seconds; ScreenMaker 3D is fast, fun and easy to use. Create animated 3D text message screensavers with your own personalized message or put images of your choice onto the sides of a 3D tumbling cube screensaver - ScreenMaker 3D accepts a wide variety of image formats including AVI movies. It's the perfect way to share messages or images with friends, family or colleagues - from family photo screensavers to business screensavers with corporate logos. Especially common in the financial industry, such as landlord insurance brokers, where the contents of the monitor must be secured for privacy reasons while the user is away from the computer.