A lot of geeks have a habit of collecting fonts. What happens when you get too many? It's a hassle to scroll through a long list to find the ones that you commonly use. It also slows down your computer, because your comp has to load all of those fonts into memory at startup.

A solution is to use a type manager to view your font collection, and only install the ones that you'll be using. One of the best managers that I've seen is Sue Fischer's The Font Thing. It allows you to install or uninstall any number of fonts, view font information or print samples. Best of all, it allows you to browse fonts that are not currently installed.

To see all of The Font Thing's features, and to download it for free, click here.

27 January 2003  |   permalink