Luckily there are several free applications that allow us to solve this problem by helping us manage fonts in real time. Many will help you organize by categorizing, tagging, you'll also be able to preview them and install or uninstall [BLOCKED].
Apple's Font Book is a font manager that comes with Mac OS X since version 10.3 (Panther). Use Font Book to sort and preview your font collections to find the right one to use for your project. Font Book also lets you install, search, organize, activate, and deactivate fonts too. When you open it, the interface displays a Collection column on the left that sorts fonts by category, a Font column in the middle that displays all fonts in the selected collection, and a preview pane on the right, which displays a sample of the characters in the selected font.
myFontbook is a nifty new tool for viewing your font collection from your web browser. The font viewer allows you to easily review and catalog all of your installed fonts. Overall, myFontbook is the tool that you need to organize your font collection.
Fontmatrix is a free/libre font explorer for Linux, Windows and Mac. It’s for you. Enjoy it and, if you like it, get involved. It comes with features such as tagging for an easier organization method, a script console that lets you extend and customize the application, it's interface is intuitive, and displays meta information about a font such as designer, copyright info, etc.
sFont is a small, fast and easy-to-use tool for managing and finding exactly the font you need as fast as possible. It's user interface is so friendly and intuitive you will be familiar with all its functions almost instantly. Just try and see for yourself.
This program is an easy to use but powerful font manager, which allows getting a quick overview of both installed and non installed fonts. It can install and uninstall fonts, and organize them in categories. Some of its features are support of TrueType and OpenType fonts, deletion of installed fonts, it can print a list of all or some of the installed fonts with an example of each font and much more.
This simple tool shows you all the fonts installed on your computer and helps you choose which one is most suitable for a particular project. You can install this program on your computer using something called Adobe AIR. Adobe AIR is a way of running web applications on Windows and Macs.
FindThatFont! is a handy and free tool that allows to preview fonts that are installed on your system and to classify them into over 30 different categories. By using this categorization you can find any font on your system faster than ever before.
Suitcase is a powerful and easy to work with font managing tool that allows you to easily organize fonts with a simple user interface, preview any font, keep the font library secure. You also can take advantage of other features such as the free Font Doctor, font auto-activation, diagnosis/repair of fonts and more.
