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SAM says: “Can you guess how many fonts you have in your organisation?. Use this simple tool – you’ll be amazed by the results.”

The Font Discovery Tool quickly scans your computer to tell you how many fonts you have.

You need to install the tool with administrator rights or the tool will only scan the files that you are authorised to access (your IT staff will be able to help here).

The number of fonts found indicates the actual number of unique fonts including different weights e.g. regular, bold, italic etc on this computer. This is the number that you need to use when referring to the Result Guide in the Font Discovery Tool..

The number of font files found may be larger than the number of fonts if the font is found more than once on the computer.

After you scan refer to the Results Guide in the Font Discovery Tool which indicates what the number of fonts found is likely to mean and recommends next steps that you should take to determine whether the fonts found are correctly licensed or not.

Remember, this is just a snapshot of the situation on one computer. The number of fonts on each machine could vary dependent on the kind of work that the user does. To get an accurate view of the situation across your organisation a networked font discovery tool combined with a reconciliation service is necessary since general software discovery tools do not find fonts accurately.
Font Discovery Tool PC version [420K]
Font Discovery Tool Mac version [876K]

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