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Font Examiner Finds Glyphs Across All Your Fonts

Artistic Techworks’ Font Examiner 3 does more than just let you see and print all the characters in a font — although it does that very well. My favorite features are: You can open and work with uninstalled fonts. You can view the outlines and anchor points of any glyph (character). You can copy and paste any glyph [...]

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Collections of Handwriting Fonts

Chank Diesel’s Go Font Yourself is a collection of 21 genuine handwriting fonts in OpenType format. They’re terrific for implying a personality type when presenting handwritten text, or you may even find one that’s similar to your own handwriting and you can then use it to represent yourself in printed materials. The website has a downloadable, 22-page [...]

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Free Ancient Scripts

George Douros has designed several free Unicode (OpenType) fonts of ancient scripts. They include Aegean, Egyptian, and Akkadian collections, with ancient Greek and Roman symbols, Phaistos Disc, Lycian, Carian, Old Italic, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Linear A, Cypriot Syllabary, Lydian, Phoenician, Meroitic, Cuneiform, Anatolian Hieroglyphs, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Cypro-Minoan, and Cretan Hieroglyphs. The collection also includes Byzantine Musical Symbols, [...]

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