How to list installed font families?

Question

How can I list the family names of installed fonts on windows system?

any command line utility or any registry paths?

Answer 1

In PowerShell you can get the Font families in two lines, one to load the .NET reflection and the second actually gets the font families:

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing")
(New-Object System.Drawing.Text.InstalledFontCollection).Families

The outlook looks similar to:

Answer 2

dir C:\windows\fonts\*.* > C:\users\<my_username>\desktop\fontlist.txt

Alternatively, something like this will do what you need it to do :)

Hope this helps

Answer 3

These links will list all the font families installed on your computer with preview while online.
If you need you can "File->save page as" *.mht or *.html format from any browser for offline use

http://pomax.nihongoresources.com/downloads/fonttest/
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http://flippingtypical.com/
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http://wordmark.it/
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Download a portable freeware and preview all installed fonts, even without an internet connection:
http://www.softwareok.com/?Download=FontViewOK.