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NexusFont – powerful and portable font manager
Managing fonts is a little boring area and there aren’t really any known and popular apps here. I had cycled through few of them over years until I had finally reached NexusFont.
What it does
Core of NexusFont is usual font viewer with font list and customizable preview. However it delivers excellent presentation by putting preview on every font in the list instead of looking through fonts one at a time. Together with incremental search and displaying non-installed fonts from any folder this makes everything very easy.
Don’t be too scared of screenshot, that’s merely my crappy handwriting I have around digitized since YourFonts review. :)
Strong features
Aside from core functions NexusFont is put together in style of small sub-utilities. It has:
- font install/uninstall with backup;
- internal charmap (as well as link to system one);
- export multiply fonts as image;
- flexible print of multiply fonts;
- font duplicates search.
Overall
Developers clearly wanted too take font experience further then usual and packed NexusFont full of powerful and handy functions. I can’t claim expert opinion if this app completely perfect for extensive font managing but it is definitely best I had tried while free and completely portable on top.
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[...] from internal choice of fonts you can also copy to reader and use any TTF font you want (just grab NexusFont and look through fonts Windows has, I use [...]
I like the look of this app but have been using fontpicker -> http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/products/font-picker/
Adobe Air is required. I think the ability to uninstall / backup a font may make me move over to Nexus. Thanks Rarst.
@Jonny
I stay as far from Air as I can. That thing has no idea what Windows app should look like (focusing on crossplatform instead – which I don’t care about) and resource consumption is ugly.
Aesthetic and more functions than a plain Font viewer. A nice discovery, hello Rarst (I’m discovering your website via AppNews) and thanks.
@Transcontinental
Hi! Thanks for your comment and welcome to blog. :)
Have you had/heard of any issues with crashes with this software. I just tried it out and for the most part it’s pretty sweet. However, when I went to maximize my window it told me there wasn’t enough memory for that function and crashed. Also, I tried uninstalling a font and then looked in the uninstalled fonts folder and it wasn’t there. It also didn’t end up staying in the installed fonts folder. I had to go back and manually reinstall it.
@Ryan
Maximizing works just fine for me and I hadn’t any crashes so far.
When you uninstall fonts it gives you dialog asking do you want to delete font file/leave it/backup it. Maybe you clicked through too fast? Happens to me at times, damn mouse reflexes. :)
No problem of any type here and up to now, including maximizing.
One tip — if you click the “Download” button on the Lexus web site, you get an executable installer which requires Admin rights to install. (For people like me, who are working on locked-down computers, that won’t work.) But if you click the “Download Zip Version” link you get a Zip file you can just unzip straight to your USB drive (or wherever you like).
Thanks for the posting — this looks like just what I was looking for.
@PhilipS
Yeah, I always prefer no-instal/portable versions. Even if I rarely end up without admin rights. :)
Glad app fits your needs.
That was an inspiring post,
This is a great tool for managing your fonts… really useful
Thanks for writing, most people don’t bother.