FontIpsum

Handwriting differs from one individual to the other, and just like this, so can multiple individuals use different fonts in text documents. Windows comes with a pretty large collection of fonts, and you can even enrich your collection with more online. As such, FontIpsum wants to help you view installed fonts, and even add more.

It takes little time to get the application installed on your computer, but it doesn’t modify any system registry entries to function, so you can just as well deploy it on a thumb drive in case you’re interested in analyzing fonts on other computers as well. You might, however, want to check whether or not the target PC is fitted with .NET Framework.

The visual design isn’t much to look at, except for the list of fonts, but truth be told, this simplicity makes sure you don’t have a hard time accommodating with the set of features. Most of the space is where all fonts are displayed, with a bunch of controls in the lower section, and helpful tooltips when hovering the cursor over specific elements.

By default, fonts are enlisted by name and displayed in their own style. It’s possible to adjust the size of text from a dedicated drop-down menu, but there’s no option to include any attributes, such as strikeout, underline, bold, italic, or more. There isn’t even an option to select a different color, but this doesn’t really affect overall practicality.

What you can do is fill in a dedicated field with a custom text string to view it in all font types. Here is where you can include all sorts of characters. In case you want to add new fonts to your computer, this is easily accomplished by opening the target file which needs to be under formats like TTF, FNT, FON, and FOT.

To sum up, FontIpsum manages to live up to expectations, helping you pick the right font for your projects. Although you can’t add any attributes, there is the possibility to view custom strings in all fonts, and even add more on the spot through the dedicated tool.