Fonticate

Even though you’re using a standard keyboard to write text, it doesn’t mean output needs to be in an universal style. Computers are equipped with large variety of font styles, and even more are available for download. In case you’re interested how they look like, you can use Fonticate to browse through all installed fonts.

On the bright side of things, the application saves you the whole effort of getting it installed on your PC, and can be launched right after download. As a consequence, you can store it on a thumb drive to check fonts on other computers as well. Moreover, registry entries remain intact during all this time.

The visual design consists of a classic window frame with a large scrollable list to browse through all elements with ease. A default text string is provided so you can preview specific font styles without any effort at all. There’s a dedicated field to modify the text input to add custom characters in case you’re interested in a particular set.

Font names are also displayed in the preview area, but most of the slot is taken by the sample text. Be sure to keep the string short, because the main window can’t be resized, and there’s no built-in text wrapping option.

However, you only generate text preview for standard styles, with no option to enable attributes like bold, italic, or underline, not even if pasting text which is already formatted this way. Moreover, the application doesn’t show how many items are on the list, and you can’t copy the string under a particular font style.

Bottom line is that Fonticate is a straightforward font preview tool which lets you experiment with different characters to help you choose the right font for your projects. Sadly, there’s no option to view text attributes, or copy text using a particular font type.