Understanding and using Fontmatrix

Intro

In the main view, each font is drawn with its own typeface. You can customize the text to be drawn in this view for every font face. Custom text can include Unicode symbols.

You can preview typefaces of installed fonts listed in the Windows Fonts view, typefaces of fonts listed in the List view, or you can select any folder in the Folders view preview all typefaces located in the selected folder.

User Interface

Main window is divided in two major parts. On the left side there are Font listing and Preview tabs, while right hand side displays various info about each font, logically separated into Info, Sample Text, Glyphs and Tags tabs.

Browsing The Font List

Navigating through the list is simplified by multiple levels of depth:
Fonts are sorted by the first letter of font typeface, full typeface name and the deepest level — the variant. On the last two levels fonts can be activated. Enabling typefaces is done by clicking on the checkbox in front of the name. You can selectively enable just singular variants at the lowest level.
The chosen font is automatically synchronized with the preview tab, framing the preview in the opposite direction. You can use Ctrl+Space to switch between the tabs on the top.
There are additional helpers below: 'View all' and 'View activated' which are pretty self explanatory.
When you finally get familiar with your collection of fonts you can use the search mechanism to narrow a selection of fonts. Searching is optionally case sensitive.
The main reason this program is called a font manager is its most powerful features are tagging fonts and organizing tags into collections for specific use. More info on that is to come later.

Displaying Fonts

Fontmatrix offers you detailed information about your fonts. There are three types of information this font manager can provide: