PopChar - Easily type umlauts and foreign characters - no need to learn the keyboard combinations
Most of your fonts contain thousands of characters, many more than you can access from the keyboard.
If you want to get the most out of your fonts, then PopChar is the right tool for you.
PopChar makes "typing" of unusual characters easy without having to remember keyboard combinations.
Whenever you need a special character, PopChar is there to help.
Click the "P" in the menu bar to display a table of characters. Select the desired character and it instantly appears in your document.
PopChar works with all modern applications that support Unicode. It makes it easy to navigate and search within fonts that contain thousands of characters. Search for characters by their names, find fonts that contain certain characters, explore the character set of fonts, collect your favorite characters, insert HTML symbols. PopChar makes all these font-related tasks easy.
With PopChar, you can also take a look at fonts from a designer's perspective – see a font preview, check out what a given text fragment looks like in a certain font, and print beautiful font sheets.
Starting with PopChar 7, you can even find special characters by simply drawing them.
Words cannot describe the huge benefits PopChar offers to you. Get an impression how PopChar can help you to get the most out of your fonts in only three minutes by watching our new short and sweet product videos.
Believe it or not - PopChar has now been around for 30 years. To read more about the milestones in the development of PopChar, see the History of PopChar.
Features, Installation, Requirements
Main features
- Inserts special characters right into your document.
- Full Unicode support with different comfortable views and pop-up menu for quick navigation.
- Search for characters by name, by Unicode number or by simply pasting some text from your document into the search field.
- Find characters by drawing their shapes.
- Find similar characters.
- Font preview and sample text views
- Font information
- View and print beautiful font sheets
- Individually adjust the sizes of certain fonts.
- Custom favorites section provides quick access to frequently used characters.
- Magnifier tool provides an enlarged view to see selected characters in full detail.
- Work across font boundaries and see all available characters system-wide.
- "Reverse search" for fonts that contain a particular character.
- Recent characters view for instant access to your frequently used characters.
- Flexible user interface to satisfy the individual needs of different users.
- Displays the keyboard combinations for characters that have keyboard equivalents.
- Various insertion modes: Insert characters as plain or formatted text or HTML.
- Support for Apple Color Emoji font.
Installation
To install PopChar, download it from our downloads page.
As long as you do not have a license key, PopChar operates in trial mode: some special characters are dimmed in the PopChar table. You can order a license key online on our order page. When you receive your license key, enter it in the Registration window of PopChar X. The dimmed characters will immediately become active.
Languages
PopChar X is available in English, German, and French. PopChar Win is available in English and German.