BitStream Font Navigator
Posted on January 5, 2026
BitStream Font Navigator was the go-to font management tool for designers through the ’90s and early 2000s, especially if you were running CorelDRAW. First released in the mid-’90s, it let you preview, install, and organize massive font libraries without slowing your system to a crawl—huge if you were juggling hundreds of TrueType and PostScript fonts back then. Corel bundled it with CorelDRAW 7 in 1996, kept it alive through version 10 in 2000, and by the early 2000s it had become the quiet workhorse for anyone serious about typography. It wasn’t flashy, but if you spent nights swapping fonts for flyers, yearbooks, or early web graphics, Font Navigator was the cheat code that kept your workflow sane.