More and more designers spend their time creating new amazing typographies. And this job requires you to view, organize and manage a large collection of fonts, which are the essential materials, on your computer. In fact, your operating system are lack of utilities help your manage your fonts effectively and most well known utilities now on the market are from 3rd companies. In this post, I make a roundup about most useful and free tools for this job.
1. Font View: This is a little tool for viewing and trying out all the installed fonts on your computer. 
2. FontSuit Lite 3.0: With this utility, you can organize your fonts easily by drag-and-drop, activate/deactivate fonts by double-click font name, view fonts even if not activated and print fonts sample. 
3. WinFontsView is a small utility that enumerates all fonts installed on your system, and displays them in one simple table. For each font, it draws 5 samples of the font in different sizes, in order to allow you to easily find and choose the desired font that you need. It also allows you to view the fonts as Bold, as Italic or with underline, as well as it allows you to export the fonts list into html file. 
4. Tiny Font Viewer is the ultimate tool to preview all your system fonts. You can increase or decrease the size, add bold or italic to decide which font to use for your next project. 
5. Raster Font Editor is an easy-to-use font editor for the creation of bitmap fonts. It supports several file formats and has a very simple yet fully customizable user interface. 
6. Font Frenzy is a free font manager with some unique features not found in any free font program. Not only will it help you to view, install, and uninstall your fonts - it can help you "defrenzy" your whole font folder and put an end to font frustration and slow boot-up times. It allows you to strip away your excess fonts and leave only the fonts that are essential to Windows, giving you the maximum performance possible. 
7. FindThatFont! is a handy and free tool that allows to preview fonts that are installed on your system and to classify them into over 30 different categories. By using it, you will be able to find any font on your computer faster then ever before 
8. FaceList helps you find the font you were searching for. You can use FaceList to view the fonts that are installed on your computer, test different styles, sizes and example texts, find the font that fits best in your graphics, prints, layouts,... organize fonts to collections. 
9. Font Xplorer is a font program that lets you choose the "perfect font" for a specific job and easily perform all types of font management & printing chores. 
10. Unicode Character Map was designed to be a small tool that will help you view characters that are available in any selected font. You can copy individual characters or a group of characters to the Clipboard and paste them into any program that can display them. Depending on the program you are using (such as Microsoft WordPad), you can copy characters by dragging them from the application directly into an open document. Using the application, you can search for characters by Unicode character name, Unicode subrange (such as arrow or mathematical operator), and other ways. 
11. Unicode Font Viewer shows all true type fonts on a Windows system and allows to browse through all codepoints (characters). See whether your fonts contain chinese, arabic or hebrew characters. 
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