including 2 versions of Hobo, one from Microsoft, and the other from Adobe!Įach font that’s loaded on your computer eats up a small portion of RAM. The total: 110 basic Windows and ClearType fonts, 139 non-Latin language fonts, 187 Office fonts, and 200+ from Adobe's CS, depending on which suite you installed.

Here's Adobe's list of fonts installed with CS5.5. See Microsoft's list of fonts installed with Windows 7 and with Office 2010. Bleah! My students know how “fond” I am of the typeface Hobo that is installed on Windows computers by Microsoft’s products.) Windows and MS Office install more than 400 fonts on your computer system, and if you install an Adobe CS product, you’ll have an additional 200+ fonts. Here’s my review of FEX and why it should be on your computer. Linotype-Monotype just released Font Explorer X Pro for Windows (FEX), the sibling of the Macintosh version that helps designers manage their font libraries and perform other tasks.ĭownload a free 30-day trial of FEX and take it for a test drive: I’ve been holding my breath and waiting to tell my clients and subscribers about it for quite some time - and now I can spill the beans. Starting today, Windows users now have the best font manager available to turn off, turn on, and install fonts on their systems. Oh, happy day! I now can turn off “ Hobo,” my favorite font to hate in Windows. Windows users can now have the same thing Mac users have: the best font manager on the market, Linotype's FontExplorer X Pro, was released today for Windows.īy Bevi Chagnon, PubCom Here's a short review of why you should use a font manager on your computer and what features make Linotype's FontExplorer X Pro your best choice.

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