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Font Mate - your fast friendly font finder

Font Mate is a simple program to help you see how fonts look on your computer, and to help you find symbol characters.

 

 

 
Using Font Mate
There isn't much to it: Font Mate shows you a list of all the fonts installed on your computer. Choose any font from the list and it will show you what all the characters in that font look like. Choose any one of those characters and you will see an enlarged version of it at the bottom of the page (with its ASCII code in decimal and hex, should you be interested). You can copy any character to the clipboard. You will also see some sample text (a random pangram plus numbers) but you can write your own if you prefer. You can print out a sample sheet for any font.
 
What does it work on?
We wrote Font Mate originally for Mac OS X, but we have included versions for Windows and Linux too. We wrote it using REALbasic, a great tool for cross-platform rapid development. Source is available on request.
 
And what does it cost?
Font Mate is free. Just download it and use it. Of course, the software comes with no warranties, guarantees or similar. Also, while we have tested Font Mate thoroughly and believe it to be well-behaved and safe software, we will not be held responsible for any problems arising on your systems following use of the program. Not happy? Don't use it.