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Does anyone know of a standalone font viewer for Windows that shows all glyphs?

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    • May 4, 2023 at 12:54 pm #14390443
      Jim Smirch
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      I posted this under Type & Typography in the Adobe Support Community, but didn’t get any responses:

      Does anyone know of a standalone font viewer for Windows that shows all of the selected font’s glyphs? I’d like to be able to preview a font file in Windows to see, for example, if it has both lining and old style figures. I’d also like to avoid spending much or any money on it.
      I’ve found several font viewers, but they typically only show Unicode and not all of a font’s glyphs. Even the previews in many font managers only show Unicode.
      The only thing I’ve found so far is DTL OTMaster Light, but it seems like overkill for just previewing fonts.
      I was just wondering if anyone has run across anything I’ve missed.

      So, has anyone here run across such a thing?

    • May 4, 2023 at 1:12 pm #14390444
      Petar Petrenko
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      https://www.cr8software.net/typelight.html

      • May 5, 2023 at 7:19 am #14390489
        Jim Smirch
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        Thanks for the response, Petar. The full-font preview in Type light is exactly what I’ve been looking for. And the price is right (i.e., free).

        Ideally I’d like to find a font viewer that has only the full-font preview function and not the glyph editing functions. But I’ll play around Type light some more.

      • May 5, 2023 at 7:36 am #14390491
        Petar Petrenko
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        I offered TypeLight because you mentioned OTMaster Light which, as I suppose, is a font editor, too.

      • May 5, 2023 at 7:58 am #14390493
        Jim Smirch
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        You’re right about OTMaster Light’s also being a font editor. I have to admit that I like the Full-font preview in Type light a lot more than the glyph set window in OTMaster and don’t like that OTMaster displays a notice that has to be dismissed every time a font is opened.

        I’m a little leery of using any font editor as a viewer because I don’t want to inadvertently alter a font file. But it’s beginning to look like the only font viewers that show a full glyph complement are in font editors and maybe a few more costly font managers.

    • May 4, 2023 at 8:26 pm #14390466
      Ginger Marks
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      I use AMP Font Viewer. It’s free and you can categorize your fonts.

      • May 5, 2023 at 7:35 am #14390490
        Jim Smirch
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        Ginger, thanks for the response. I was hoping to find a viewer that shows the full glyph complement including OpenType alternates. But as you say, AMP Font Viewer is free, plus it shows fonts in their folders and other information the font’s version. I’ll have to look at it a little closer.

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