FontWrangler

• Concept of local font directory
• Don’t like the UI

Windows Fonts Explorer

• No concept of local font directory

FontHit Font Tools

• Looks interesting, but I couldn’t install it

FindThatFont!

• Open Source
• One of the better UIs, but still not good.
• No support for a local font directory

MainType

• Supports font folders
• Way Overdesigned, no immediate preview

FontMatrix

• Can browse folders
• Doubtful UI quality
• Interesting features, like classification browse

FontXplorer

• Suffers from some Windows95-ersims, but for once, this is a UI with some thought behind it.
• Supports font folders.