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FontDoc


One day I got very sick of maintaining samples of my 300 fonts by hand. So I wrote this.

FontDoc makes a plain old Rich Text document full of all your fonts. Save it, print it, or just gaze at it rapturously. Whatever. The possibilities are undoubtedly endless. Oh, and did I mention the fonts don’t even have to be installed to do all this?

It’s been 22 years now, and Apple's Font Book still only does a little bit of this functionality, and doesn’t do it well. Enjoy, dear denizens of Macdom.

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(Version 1.4; 461 KB)
Requires Mac OS 10.13 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel support.

Forewarning: Apple will try to terrify you with dire warnings about being unable to verify this isn’t malware. This is secret code for “I declined to pay Apple $99 every year just to take away the scary warning on my non-revenue-generating utility.” Just say no to protection rackets. Here’s how to avoid the Apple Mafia.



For Ye Olden Versions of Mac OS, here’s version 1.3.0 for Mac OS 10.10+, and version 1.2.1 for Mac OS 10.2+
Note: Corrupted fonts may crash the Apple code upon which FontDoc relies. If you are experiencing problems, please use Font Book to validate your fonts.

FontDoc is free. Of course, thank-you gifts are gladly accepted.


Version History

Version 1.4.0; 2026-06-27
  • Apple Silicon support
  • Internal updates
Version 1.3.0; 2019-10-14
  • 64-bit to support Mac OS 10.15; various API modernizations
  • Eliminates scary Address Book prompt
  • Dark Mode support
  • Fixes bug where printouts were truncated when font samples were longer than one page
  • Fixes issues restoring scroll position
Version 1.2.1; 2008-01-21
  • Fixes bug where printing in Leopard would only produce 1 page of output
  • Fixes bug where no fonts would appear in Jaguar
Version 1.2.0; 2007-10-09
  • View uninstalled fonts from any folder on your system. (10.4 recommended for this feature)
  • Leopard compatibility
Version 1.1.3; 2006-11-16
  • Universal Binary
Version 1.1.2; 2005-05-08
  • Tiger Compatibility
  • Localization for Traditional Chinese
Version 1.1.0; 2005-01-19
  • FontDoc remembers your scroll position when it updates its document display.
  • Printing improvements
  • Localizations for French and German
Version 1.0.0; 2004-10-21
  • Initial release
©Allen Smith, 2004–2026