MainType is a powerful but easy-to-use Windows font manager and font viewer that eliminates frustration from managing fonts. It is full of intuitive features, making it easy to find, preview, organize, install, and print your fonts.

MainType is designed specifically for graphic artists, typists, and other users who require high-end features such as network support, advanced classification, and complex search capabilities.

MainType provides instant system wide font synchronization, without the need to refresh the font list or restart the computer after installing fonts. Unlike most other font managers, MainType runs without administrator credentials. This eliminates the frustrating elevation prompts when managing fonts.

• Single code character grid

Easily browse Unicode blocks, copy characters to the clipboard, sample panels, or insert characters directly into backend applications from the font manager.

• Annotations, Tags, and Ratings

Add custom comments to the font, rate them, mark the font with simple keywords, and then quickly find the desired font by searching for these keywords.

• Customizable layout

MainType uses an advanced docking system that allows you to configure the layout the way you want! Whether you want to hide, dock, float, or hide the panel in a tab, it is possible.

• Deep Font Comparison

Simply drag and drop up to 5 fonts onto the font information panel to compare font properties. This helps you identify the font version to use, uninstall, categorize, or print.

• Print Report

Print font samples and choose between four predefined reports. Optional preview before printing to ensure printing of the font list, character set, or font information page to be printed.

• Team synchronization

Have MainType synchronize specific folders on the file system or network with special groups in the group panel, and you always have the latest list of fonts.

Open type layout function

Use the example panel to select which features to apply to the preview text, so that you can directly test the Open type layout feature of the font in the main type. To enable this mode, click the X2 button. It also supports color fonts!

• Damaged font detection

Damaged fonts may cause instability in your system, so MainType will detect them and prevent them from appearing in your library The 'Invalid Font Resources' dialog box allows you to view damaged fonts and delete them.

• Easy to backup and restore

The Font Management Service Config (FMSConfig) utility allows you to quickly and easily back up the entire font library, labels, groups, and settings with just a few mouse clicks.

• Font classification

Classify fonts by foundry, font type, rating, font width, etc., and optionally group fonts by family.

• Group Manage Your Fonts

Create birthdays, holidays, cars, animals, themes, or any font groups you need, and quickly load, install, and uninstall them. This feature also allows graphic designer to store fonts for each project.

• Fix font registry

The Professional version of MainType will automatically detect font registry issues, such as missing and duplicate installed fonts. Then, you can solve these problems with just one click of the mouse.

• Repeating fonts

Over the years, your font collection may contain many duplicate fonts. MainType has the ability to select all duplicates, allowing you to clean up the font library.