My spouse needed the ability to "see" fonts and what the text would look like while doing Lettering for a comic book that he is illustrating

It's a single-pane-of-glass approach. Rather simple really

3 Easy Steps to see the text and chars available

Enter the text you'd like to see

Select your font you'd like to see

Click the drop down for the font size and it will update it in the window

Shows you your text in the font you selected

Shows you the font characters.

(Right-Click) Allows you to Compare Fonts side-by-side

(Righ-Click) You can remove a font, clear all, or Go to the font in the main window

Shows you the font's name.