Know of a standalone viewer for Windows that shows all of a font's glyphs?

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April 29, 2023
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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 oldstyle 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 alternate 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 accross anything I've missed.

Thanks.

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jane-e

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@James_M_S

Which Adobe applications are you using? Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator all have a Glyphs panel that shows all of the glyphs in the typeface.

The panels are not identical and other applications may also have a glyphs panel. Knowing your application will help us to help you.

The brackets mean the choice is not available with that particular typeface and typestyle.

Jane

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James_M_SAuthor

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Thanks for the response, Jane. I use InDesign, but maybe I should have given a little more context for my query. I'm reorganizing and culling my personal font library. As I'm moving font files around on my computer, I was hoping to find a faster way of seeing a font's OpenType features than installing the font, opening InDesign, and using InDesign's Glyphs panel. I thought that maybe the Type & Typography forum might an appropriate place to ask about that instead of the InDesign forum. (For what it's worth, I'm surprised that Bridge doesn't show more font information than it does.)

What I'm finding is that just about every standalone font viewer only shows Unicode. Many font managers also only show Unicode. Font editors will typically show a full glyph complement, but using a font editor just to view a font's OpenType features seems like overkill, although there are a couple of free ones that might work.

There's the FontDrop! website, but I'm leery of draging my fonts onto a webpage in a browser.

Anyway, thanks again for the response.

jane-e

Community Expert

Hi @James_M_S

Another volunteer may jump in and answer. If no one does and you want this moved to the InDesign forum, tag me by typing @ before my user name and I can move it.

Jane

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