The options to install, uninstall and manage fonts has not been changed in a Windows operating system since Windows 95. At least not in a remarkable way. The only solution so far was to rely on third party applications that would offer font previews and a comfortable solution to install and uninstall them. The fonts manager was overhauled in Windows 7 and provides a preview of every installed font of the computer system with the option to hide fonts based on language settings.
Each font can be previewed directly in the main fonts menu because three characters (abg) are displayed in the font’s icon. Multiple fonts of the same font family, say Courier New or Arial are stacked together and shown as the font family with information on the available font types shown in the same interface.
A preview of all fonts of a font family is available after double-clicking an icon. A click on a single-font will open a preview window of that font showing all of its characters in various sizes.
The new font manager is one of many small but very noticeable changes in Windows 7. This is definitely a welcome addition.
Source: Windows7News
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November 30th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
I think it have to be better than vista and fix the mistakes and faults in windows vista .
I really love to try it
December 4th, 2008 at 5:51 am
I don’t have any font related problems in Vista.
December 24th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Well, it sounds like barely an improvement over the OLD Font manager. Which could barely be called THAT. Give me a font manager where I can control which fonts are active at a time and integrate THAT into the OS already… Graphic Designers cringe and have to fork out cash to resolve the problem.
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:30 pm
how to chang the letters in fontview “Abg” to someting else like Agö
August 5th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
I second Stitch’s comment. The task of font management means managing which fonts, from a library of perhaps *thousands* of fonts, should be installed at any given time. Several of the major design applications can be bogged down when too many fonts are installed all at once–so we have to choose. For that matter, it’s time consuming having to trawl through a list of 2000 fonts for something that looks right. So, “Font Management” should also include some means of organizing all those fonts.
As far as I can see, what Windows 7 has to offer is an improved Font Viewer, but not really a manager. This unfortunately underscores what makes so many designers choose Apple over Microsoft.
October 24th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Agreed with Barliesque. I still the old and trusty Adobe Type Manager software. It looks like it was written back in the Windows 3.1 days but it does exactly what it is supposed to do.
November 17th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
I also agree with above… I hope they will come up soon with a Font Manager that provides an activate/deactivate option…
December 31st, 2009 at 6:09 am
I have to echo the sentiments above - but I have just read the “Windows 7 Introduces New Font Management” and I laughed. My question to you is ==> What font management? LOL- It’s a laughable announcement - but kudos on improving the functionality of Windows otherwise. Except for the sidebar fiasco which does not offer an option of the ACTUAL sidebar - kinda mindboggling. Perhaps Windows Evolution ((interesting concept to see the software actually evolve…)) will see a robust font management system amongst other things, as Windows 7 really to me seems a Vista Clone with a few GUI enhancements. At least it is not such a resource hog anyway…
Jacquii.
February 5th, 2010 at 11:51 pm
I also really like Adobe Type Manager Deluxe, but my new Windows 7 computers says it won’t install run with this system!!!
Suitcase Fusion 2 just caused problems, even thought the website says it is 7 ready, and FontAgent Pro does not claim to be ready (as of last week).
February 27th, 2010 at 11:50 am
I have same issues as all above. We have loads of documents archived and when retrieving them in this new OS, I found many fon’t were missing. Since I don’t have time to go through and install fonts for each document I ended up having to install everything (over 2000 fonts). I would like to think I will have time one day to remove the fonts not in use - but how do I know which ones they are? There is nothing to say which program installed them or to tell me if they have ever been used.. or when.