Survey All Your Fonts - Online

This site is a good alternative to installing a program to view your fonts.

Font Picker allows you to view your fonts online.
It tells you how many fonts you have installed, and, you can type in any words or phrases to see how they look.

The site is very easy to use, and especially well suited to picking fonts for a project.
I don't know if it displays all the fonts properly, because I haven't had a look at all the new fonts shipped with Vista.

The amount of fonts it said I had on my system was accurate, and the fonts that I'm familiar with (around 150) all looked like they are supposed to in Font Viewer.

A pretty neat feature is the ability to check the fonts ones you want to keep in view.
You can X the fonts you don't want to see, and pressing 'Clear' removes all unselected fonts from view.
There's 'Reset' if you want to start again.

If you have many fonts on your system this is a quick way to whittle down the fonts you want to use. Zip though your fonts, checking the ones you want to keep to look at later, and disappear all the rest from view.

I don't know how well this interface works if you have a lot (500+) of fonts on your system.
If you store your fonts anywhere other than the default Windows Font folder, you probably won't be able to see them.

From my poking around (that would be me, briefly commandeering every computer around here, one at a time) Font Picker doesn't see anything other than the Windows default folder.
I don't know if it works on a Mac or on Linux.

This isn't a font manager, it doesn't touch anything on your system. If you need a font manager, have a look at this list of the Best Free Font Managers

Font Picker can also be installed on your computer. You'll need Adobe Air to run it.

Font Picker
 

Signing off,
Rhiannon
 

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