Google The Font Thing - can't open it and grab link just now as I'm on a Linux box, and it's Windows. Freeware, hasn't been updated in a while, but does its small thing well. Lets you keep a library of fonts in some random place of your choosing, and lets you skim through them quickly to find that one you remember the look of but can't recall the name. Lets you categorize them too. Can set the "Quick Brown Fox..." text to whatever you like - useful if your map needs a particular diacritic; look for what you really need in a quick scan.

YES, you want to keep your loaded fonts down. A hundred would be great. Over 3-4 hundred and you'll be *killing* yourself every time you open a doc. Lots of apps, particularly things like MS Word, have to rummage through ALL the loaded fonts every time something's opened. I should know, my mumble-thousand font collection once bogged me to a molasses crawl. Or treacle, of you're non-US :-). Now I only load what I need. The Font Thing will let you install, I think its terminology for stickng a copy in the /fonts directory and it'll be there past reboots, OR just load - in use this logon session only, goes away without having to remember to do housekeeping. Hence a lot of my PhotoPlus layers are named things like "title - Andes Medium 32".... If not loaded or installed, and you go to bring up a file, most apps will pick a default, which can Really ruin the look of that carefully crafted art deco advertisement you did back years ago, or whatever.

Coyote, I love your "keep copies of used fonts with map files". Why has that not occurred to me?

How much capability are you looking for, Gidde?