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Clear Demo
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Steve Gibson explains subpixel rendering as used in Microsoft ClearType, shows how it originally worked on the Apple II, and provides a 35k Windows program to experiment with subpixel rendering.
http://grc.com/freeandclear.htm
Advanced Font Viewer
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Basic program that allows all fonts installed on a system to be viewed simultaneously, with example text written in each font displayed alongside. Print out samples of the text, in all accessible variants of writing. [Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP]
http://www.styopkin.com/
Font Properties Extension
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An extension that adds several new property tabs to the Windows' font properties dialog box, including information relating to font origination and copyright, the type sizes to which hinting and smoothing are applied, and the code pages supported by extended character sets.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/p...
Identifont
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Online typeface identifier. Users are guided through a series of illustrated multiple-choice questions of features of a font to arrive at a font identification. Covers fonts from over 200 publishers; typefaces can also be looked up by name.
http://www.identifont.com/
MyTools
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Shareware package that views fonts (installed or not), prints font catalogs, manages fonts, and installs and uninstalls fonts quickly.
http://www.mytools.com/
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