The best font software I've found by far for managing and previewing fonts is Sue Fisher's The Font Thing http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft.html
The best thing about it is that you can type in the phrase you want to see and all your fonts will show up in that font for that phrase. It is also completely free software and has all the other features you would want in a font management software.
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