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from the readme text file ---- PLATFORMS: Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 DESCRIPTION: Word processors and desktop publishing packages offer an abundance of snazzy-looking fonts, but they don't offer a simple way to browse through them. With FontViewer, you can browse all the fonts on your system at once, compare selected fonts to each other, and use a variety of filters to quickly find the font you want. FontViewer was written by Jake Richter, and first appeared in PC Magazine, 26 May 1998 (v17n10). ---- ---- pretty cool little program that works well!! and it is freeware! get it and enjoy! |
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and now, a few words about fonts from the author: ---- Font Terminology: A font, in computer terms, is a logical assortment of shapes, usually representing numbers and letters of the alphabet, as well as a variety of other special characters. A collection of fonts of the same general type makes up a typeface. However, because the delineation between the terms "Font" and "Typeface" is generally not important to most people, the two terms tend to be used interchangeably. A font can have serifs, which are little extrusions at the tips and ends of each character, or it can be sans serif (meaning without serifs) where each character has ends that don’t have these extrusions. A font can have variable spacing between each character depending on the character’s size, or have fixed spacing, where each character takes up the same amount of space. A font may also be rendered (output) with a number of modifiers, the most important of which are Normal, Bold, and Italic. The latter two can be combined. It’s important to note that not each typeface is designed to have all these representations, but that software can create a version of a font that simulates these representations. |
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i have been noticing that PCMagazine has good windows utilities! they are generally small in size, task specific, and work very well! PCMagazine [aka ZDNet] also has a huge archive of freeware and shareware. almost too much stuff, since you can literally spend days looking at everything. [i should know, since i have] anyway, if you do not want to trove their depths, download FontViewer here: font viewer : 324K zipped but if you do get the chance, do visit, it is well worth your while! |
back to mikey{:-)'s freeware page 7: something clever of course