Fontlinge

Whatis?

Download

Requirements

Install

HowTo...

Step 1 - Collect fonts

Step 2 - Check

Step 3 - Make DB

Step 4 - Reunite

Step 5 - Dupekill prep

Fontlinge are not Windows-Software anymore!

For Microsoft being a monopolist that ruins us all I've moved to Linux. Fontlinge have been rewritten.
You can get the old Windows-version here.

Or, even better: Get a linux system from SuSE or Debian or another distribution :-)

Be honest!
...your font collection looks that way:

Before

Right?
Don't be ashamed. Everyone who owns more than 30 fonts has this problem.

Click the thumbnails on the right to see what Fontlinge can do for you. (Hint: These are screenshots, so links and buttons will not work)

Fontlinge help you to organize your fonts in your filesystem.

Browse them in your preferred webbrowser.

Have a detailed look at previews.

And even peek into the font's internals.

What is »Fontlinge«?

German suffix '-linge':
someone/something small

Fontlinge will:

find your fonts
rename files, i.e. from 'AGARBI.TTF' to 'Adobe_Garamond_Bold_Italic.ttf'
create a folder-structure
move the files to the right place
find and removes duplicate files
reunion postscript fontfiles
create previews
[...]

Fontlinge will not:

be useful as quick previewer for your 10 fonts.

Come back when you have some hundred fonts.

Enjoy it if you have some thousand fonts.

You don't want to live without Fontlinge if you have some ten-thousand fonts.