gHacks technology news » fonts preview http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Get Previews of all installed fonts http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/10/get-previews-of-all-installed-fonts/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/10/get-previews-of-all-installed-fonts/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:36:12 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4932 Previewing all fonts installed on the system can have two benefits. The first is a quick overview of the installed fonts. The number of fonts installed on the system becomes immediately clear and since you see a preview of every font with a test sentence you can quickly evaluate if a font is really needed on your system which is especially valid for “fun” fonts like the Terminator font.

A better use of a software that displays all fonts installed on the system is the overview to be able to pick only quickly for a presentation, letter or other purpose. Or could you name the differences between Arial, Times New Roman and Franklin Gothic Medium out of your head ? You could obviously just test them in the application that you write the text with but this usually takes way longer.

Hawkeye Font Browser is a free software for Microsoft Windows that requires the .net Framework 1.1. It’s a tiny 39 Kilobyte application that can be run from any location and immediately displays a sentence in all fonts installed on the system.

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The user can enter a different sentence and pick a font size, color and select bold or underline letters. By the way, if you have more than 100 fonts installed on your system you might want to consider reducing them to speed up system boot times. Check out the article fonts increase system startup for additional information.

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