I've tried all the obvious font viewers - like most I have about 600 font variants on my PC.
Scrolling through them all in any font viewer is a PAIN.
For me the Font Thing was the best, but does not save its settings.
Does anyone know of a portable font viewer that will support any (better still all) of the following:
1: only show the base font - not all its variants?
2: let me sort for serif, sans, or monospace fonts?
3: Choose the sample text so I can check how oO0; iIlL1 are shown?
4: Filter by x height or character width?
font viewer with filter
Re: font viewer with filter
NexusFont? You can create "Collections", add tags, sort.
Re: font viewer with filter
Great question. NexusFont (as billon notes) does allow filtering by name. So if sans/monospace, or serif is in the name, that would work.
FontManager (cross-platform, probably not portable) might also do some of what you're looking for, including spacing: https://fontmanager.github.io/ ... this one is ideal mostly because Nexusfont hasn't been updated in some time, and you can open an issue for any filter options that aren't already present. They might add in that functionality for everyone.
There are also some fancy font tools out there (mostly mac, few are freeware): https://www.templatemonster.com/blog/be ... -showdown/
FontManager (cross-platform, probably not portable) might also do some of what you're looking for, including spacing: https://fontmanager.github.io/ ... this one is ideal mostly because Nexusfont hasn't been updated in some time, and you can open an issue for any filter options that aren't already present. They might add in that functionality for everyone.
There are also some fancy font tools out there (mostly mac, few are freeware): https://www.templatemonster.com/blog/be ... -showdown/