Aivosto- Fontitin: Font and character viewer. With a difference.

Fontitin is a font and character viewer for Windows. Explore fonts. Examine their character repertoire. Detect missing characters. Find new symbols on your PC. Pick the best font for your job. Look into character sets.

Dig deep into the fonts installed on your PC. View characters by Unicode block, script or codepage. Check which of your fonts support all the characters you need. Understand which characters your favorite font doesn't support. Compare fonts to find characters appearing in one font but not in the other. List fonts that support selected characters while leaving out those fonts that don't. Click a strange character to get more information on its use.

 

With Fontitin you can

 

Find out

which characters exist in a font, and which characters are missing

which fonts support the characters you need

Locate    

the character you need but you don't know where it is

new symbols already installed on your PC

List        

characters by script: Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew etc.

characters by Unicode block or codepage

all special letters required in a foreign language (á, ä, å, …)

all fonts supporting wanted letters, such as arrows, dingbats or diacritic letters of your language

Compare

character coverage of different fonts

a font to standard character sets

Detect

characters totally missing from your PC

missing letters by language

Learn

about Unicode and fonts

about the meaning of Chinese and Japanese characters

Print

character lists and tables

 

You need Fontitin if

• you use fonts
• you write text with symbols and special letters
• you design web pages with special characters
• you need to locate a working font for a piece of gibberish
• you design fonts

 

Features include

• View character tables by Unicode block or script.
• View character tables for a codepage, including PC, EBCDIC, Mac and ISO codepages.
• View special characters of more than 100 languages.
• View characters sets of various standards and glyph lists.
• View new characters in each new Unicode version.
• View all characters of a font, including Private Use Area characters and rarely used Planes 1–16.
• View character lists with full description of each character.
• List fonts that support selected block, script, codepage, standard or wanted character.
• List missing characters, ones that don't exist on your PC.
• Compare 2 or 3 fonts with each other, differences highlighted.
• Rank fonts by number of characters supported: total characters, wanted characters.

 

Updates

Latest update: Fontitin v1.2 supports Unicode 16.