X-Fonter 14.0

HTML Font Book

The HTML Font Book is a self-contained set of linked HTML pages that lets you browse your font library in any web browser — without X-Fonter open, without the fonts installed, and without any special software. X-Fonter generates all the necessary image files and HTML automatically, so the result works immediately on any machine.

A Font Book can be saved to a local folder and opened directly in a browser, shared with a colleague by copying the folder to a USB drive or file share, or published to a web server so it is accessible online. Because it is plain HTML and images, it will continue to work regardless of whether X-Fonter is installed on the machine viewing it.

What the Font Book Looks Like

Each page in the Font Book displays a set of fonts rendered as images, showing the font name and sample text in that typeface. Fonts are grouped across multiple pages with navigation links between them. The appearance — colours, layout, number of fonts per page, sample text — is fully configurable before generation.

Generating a Font Book

Select the fonts you want to include — or position yourself in the tab (Installed, Browse, or Collections) whose fonts you want to export.
Open the Font Book dialog via File → Font Book or the Font Book icon in the toolbar.
Configure the three settings tabs: Layout, Colors, and Options.
Click Create Font Book.
Choose a destination folder and click OK. X-Fonter generates all HTML pages and image files into that folder.
Open index.html in the destination folder in any browser to view the result.

Tip: Create the Font Book into an empty folder. X-Fonter writes multiple files (HTML pages plus an image for every font entry), so starting with a clean folder makes it easy to identify all the generated files and avoids mixing them with unrelated content.

The Three Configuration Tabs

The Font Book dialog has three tabs, each covering a different aspect of the output. Click any link below to read the full details for that tab.

Layout — controls the page structure: how many fonts appear per page, the sample text shown under each font name, and the font sizes used for the preview images.
Colors — sets the colour scheme for the generated pages: background, text, headings, borders and link colours.
Options — additional settings such as whether to include the font file name, the page title, and other output preferences.

Common Uses

A Font Book is particularly useful when you want to share a font catalogue with someone who does not have X-Fonter or the fonts themselves installed. Typical scenarios include presenting a shortlist of typeface options to a client for approval, sharing a project font set with a printer or production house, or simply keeping a browsable offline archive of a large font collection.

Tip: To create a Font Book covering a specific project's fonts, add those fonts to a Collection first, switch to the Collections tab, and generate from there. This ensures only the relevant fonts are included rather than your entire library.